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V OLUME 2 ISSUE 1 M ARCH 1, 2010
Meanwhile in the
Sint Eustatius: Netherlands
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Stanley Marks
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Ministers, State
Secretary’s and
other officials
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The first edition of Statianews was February the Golden Rock, brought a lot of money to the In the Informer
21, 2009. So instead of issue 24, this is volu‐ island. It was still slavery, but a lot of slaves were
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me 2 issue 1. able to buy themselves out of slavery or have a
comfortable living. Of course, there was hardship
and I have heard some cruel story’s about how Announcements,
Breaking news: The permanent chamber com‐
mittee (vaste kamercommissie) for Netherlands black people were treated, but my point is that, Page 8,9
Antillian and Aruban Affairs (NAAZ) has today due to Statia’s strategic location, history is repea‐
declared the BES laws not controversial. The ting itself.
plenairy handling of the BES laws continues on
March 4th. In this modern age, the people from the island do
not benefit as much as they can from this strategic
Did you know that the Nu Star Terminal on location. Until now, money from the Terminal
Statia supplies about 90 % of the oil supply to mostly goes to Curacao in stead of to Statia.
the East coast of the United States? History
repeats itself, because in the 18th century, it In my opinion, this island can be selfreliable if
was Statia that supplied about 90% of the taxation from the Terminal is set in place. I think
guns, gunpowder, uniforms and other goods we don’t have to cost Holland a dime, Holland can
needed for the fight for freedom in that very even benefit from us, especially since we have a
same region. Nu Star Terminal in Amsterdam as well. Let’s make
sure Statia is informed about the future taxation
It was Alexander Hamilton, one of “the foun‐ of this Terminal and let’s make sure that the island
ding fathers” of the United States of America, will benefit.
who was from Nevis, a small island not far
from Statia that was an English colony, to Anyway, in my opinion, Statia is a lucky island.
come up with the idea to have Statia as the
main supplier of material needed for the 13 Enjoy the news,
colony’s to fight the English.
Annemieke
This prosperous era, when Statia was called
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T RAGEDY ON S TATIA
Never make rules that can be fatal for innocent people.
SVB, the health insurance company, made this mistake.
SVB has a policy to discourage people to go to the hospi‐
tal during Carnival time or Christmas time, because in
the past, people took advantage of the SVB, more peop‐
le happened to fall ill during these periods, just to have
an airplane ticket for Christmas shopping or to celebrate
the Carnival.
While Curacao and Bonaire were having Carnival, a
young man died here on Statia. SVB did not let him tra‐
vel to the hospital in Curacao.
The island is in mourning, because it was a special young
man. Shirland Schrewhardt had Down‘s syndrome and
with that, he found his place in our society. He was well
loved. Looking at him and the way his family and friends
treated him, love, tolerance and brotherhood looked
back at you. He is missed by all. His funeral is Wednes‐
day March 3.
Read more about SVB on page 6.
Carnival on the ABC islands, mourning on Statia.
This is Bonaire’s Carnival Queen
picture by weblog naarbonaire
J OB R ANKING S YSTEM
Peter van Dongen came to Statia in September A job ranking system means that all jobs have a job
2009 to assist the island secretary that was hired descriptions and are valued in a scale.
temporarily. You can read about that in the infor‐
mer (see link above). The most important thing Pe‐ Different aspects of a job, like the different activities
ter van Dongen has accomplished in the half year within the job, the leadership aspects, the policy ma‐
he was here was setting up a Job Ranking System. king aspects, the external contacts, are described and
The process of coming to a Job Ranking System star‐ to fit them in a certain scale with a certain salary, all
ted in 1997 and this last November, Peter together these aspects of a job are valued.
with Florence Marlin (head Personnel) made it pass
through the executive council. This system of giving a value to an aspect of a job, is
set up by the “Bestuursacademie BES” on Curacao.
With the implementation of this Job Ranking System,
government has the obligation to start an objection
committee. People that object against the scale their
job was appreciated for, have the right to be heard.
Peter van Dongen has been the head of this commit‐
tee and in that capacity, he has handled 54 objecti‐
ons. Two people from the WISCU, the Union from St.
Maarten were in that committee too. All these hea‐
rings are reported, this is not public yet. So it is still
unknown if objections are honored.
Presently, implementing “functionerings‐
gesprekken” (job evaluation converstations) and
“beoordelingsgesprekken” (assessment interviews) is
taking place.
Peter van Dongen assisted and supported the The executive council will make decisions about the
Government council from September 2009 until endreport Peter van Dongen made and his recom‐
March 2010. (picture by Natasja Vuik) mendations in the second week of March.
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