Statia News No. 15

INDEPENDENT NEWSLETTER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 15

STATIA NEWS

EDITORIAL

Last edition, this editorial was about airlinetickets. We have a follow‐up about that. One interesting suggestion made by Terrance Rey, head of the board of Aviation Pioneers, was to start a flying school, right here on Statia. When asked Mr. Hooker about that, he seemed much in favor of that plan. Government still has to develop a mas‐terplan for the airport. One of the possi‐bilities is to have direct flights to St. Kitts and Bonaire. Direct flights to St. Kitts would mean that flights to Santa Domingo, the US and Europe are chea‐per than via St. Maarten. Mr. Hooker had more to say to the pu‐blic. One thing he said is: Buy your land. Don’t be afraid for taxation, buy your land now!

The other thing is: Statia still needs an investment officer. This investment offi‐cer is very important for the economic development of Statia. Well, I hope you will enjoy this edition of Statianews, thanks for all your emails and thank you Walter Hellebrand, for your contributions. It gives quality to this newsletter! Next week, the vacancies for “Jeugd en Gezin” will be published. Keep your eyes on the newspapers. Please, be active and send in your ideas about Statia’s economic possiblities! Annemieke Kusters

The meeting with the Kwartierma-kers, page 2 Talkin’Blues with Hemmie van Xan-ten, page 3 Press Conference with Mr. Hooker, page 3 Statia in the Future, Strategic Develop-ment plan, page 4 Aviation Pioneers exhibition, page 5,6 Statia Tourism Week, page 7 Stations for Statia, page 8 Letter to the editor, Page 9 Football, page 10 Announcement and vacancies, page 11

Statia’s Airport in 1960

THE MEETING WITH THE KWARTIERMAKERS

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Eustatius is the most important issue for that depart‐ment. After each of these presentations, the audience had to opportunity to ask question about the related topics. The meeting was well attended and everybody stayed to have informal talks with the different kwartiermakers. Some of them just started working on Bonaire, it was clear that they have a lot of work in front of them and they need to be informed about the needs and plans of our island.

Statianews had an interview with Mr. Clyde van Putten, opposition leader on Statia about the meeting. He had his reservations about the kwartiermakers. He had rather seen that more local or Antillean people would be in that position. But in the case of working toward the future, that is now beside the point: “We now have to make sure that our people are involved. If we do not re‐spond, the Dutch will make decisions for us. “ Van Putten wants to be part of the process and that’s very difficult when the executive council is reluctant to share information. He was very positive about the meeting, he said the meeting was very informative and he hopes this will set the pace; he wants the kwartiermakers to come here more often. For him, it’s very important that the public is informed about what is going on in this constitutional process. Everybody must have an input. Van Putten wants to put pressure on the executive coun‐cil to inform the island council and to inform the public about the process. He thinks it’s irresponsible how the local government is performing. Local government is weak, not effective and not transpar‐ent. It was for example impossible to have a fruitful meeting

about the “taakverdeling” on Monday Sept. 13, because

the island council members received the necessary docu‐

ment on the meeting. They did not have the time to

study this important matter.

On Tuesday September 15, the people of Statia had the opportunity to meet with the kwartiermakers from Bonaire and also with the two kwartiermakers that are on Statia and Saba, Hemmie van Xanten and Wim Hofman. The Dutch are already working on education, health care, the police, safety and on VROM. VROM is the environment, social housing and traffic. There are about 40 civil servants working for the RSC’s on Bonaire, Statia and Saba. They are temporary workers. New civil servants with permanent jobs will be local. Mr. Leo van der Meulen, project leader Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen was the first speaker. He said that there will be a detention capacity on Statia in a new building that can

hold more than 30 prisoners. He also talked about the fire brigade, the police and other safety issues. Then Mrs. Marga Drewes, the kwartiermaker for “Jeugd en Gezin” told about the plans for “Jeugd en Gezin”, for edu‐cation and for social affairs. About the plan for “Jeugd en Gezin” you can read in Statianews nr. 13. About the lan‐guage of instruction on the elementary schools she said that the schools are free to decide which language of in‐struction they will use. The exams will remain Dutch. Mr. Wim Hofman, the kwartiermaker for VROM, who lives on Statia, told about his work. He said that his first concern is the dump. Statia has to clean up the dump, start to sepa‐rate, recylcle and process waste products and for that we have to cooperate with other islands. He said that the wa‐ter supply system will be here soon and that a Dutch hous‐ing cooperation will be working along with Statia to de‐velop social housing. He also talked about transport, public works and about agriculture, nature and food quality. He said that for now the preservation of the nature on St.

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The Meeting was well attended, the atmosphere was good.

VAN PUTTEN ABOUT THE MEETING WITH THE KWARTIERMAKERS

TALKIN’ BLUES WITH HEMMIE VAN XANTEN


Opinion Mr. van Xanten mentioned a referendum about the language of instruction in the schools. I think this referendum should be about the language of the exams in the Gwendoline van Puttenschool. If they are in Dutch, the language of instruction must be Dutch. If they are in English, the language of instruc‐tion can be English. In my opinion, the model Mr. van Xanten showed us; starting with English and ending up with Dutch is not enough if you want to have Dutch exams. Joshua mentioned the visit of Mr. Plasterk, the Dutch Minister of education last year. He tried to have a conversation with a selec‐tion of 4 havo students. The smartest kids of the class were invited and it was impossible to have a discussion with the minister. They decided to pro‐ceed in English. One tenth of the students of the GVP school do Havo. They are supposed to be bet‐ter in Dutch than the rest of the students. Can you imagine how much difficulties the vmbo ‐ and other students have with Dutch?

Wednesday Sept. 23, Hemmie van Xanten, kwartier‐maker for education for Statia and Saba and head of the department of education on Saba, was guest on Talkin’ Blues. The program was interesting and a few important things were mentioned. All four elemen‐tary schools decided to choose the same methods. Mr. Hemmie van Xanten told Statianews the next day that these methods are in English and in Dutch. The Ministry of education in the Netherlands will see if the endterms for elementary schools will be met with these methods. As always, Joshua Spanner and Ber‐nard Schmidt were promoting Dutch as the language of instruction and Hemmie explained about Statia’s language policy. Multi interpretable. Written on one A‐4. Education starts in English and must end up in Dutch. Elementary schools choose how much Dutch they will give. Mr. van Xanten suggested that the people of Statia should voice their opinion in a refer‐endum. The next day in the Statianews interview he said that he had made a questionnaire in the past: 33 questions about education on Saba for parents and teachers.

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PRESS CONFERENCE WITH MR. HOOKER

Tuesday Sept 29, Government Guesthouse, press confe‐rence with commissioner Roy Hooker. Some of the things Mr. Hooker said are on the frontpage of this Statianews. Other things were: Harbor masterplan is to make an extended arm on the existing pier to make the breakwater calmer. Most of the SEI money will be used for the harbor. It might be impossible to make a commercial

harbor where the Terminal pier is now, because the wa‐ter there is “terminal” water. The following question was asked by Mrs. Lopes: “How can Statia attract well educa‐ted Statians that live abroad”. Mr. Hooker replied that we even have well educated Statians on Statia that do not have a suitable job. There are jobs and nobody seems to want to have them. Government will try to contact “Friends of Statia” and advertise more. About the division of tasks: Mr. Hooker said that on Sept. 16, the executive council had a meeting with Mr. Kamp and some kwartier‐makers about the division of tasks. He showed us the booklet with all these tasks and said that we have to be realistic; if we do not have the capacity, it’s better to leave it in Dutch hands. He said that Statia does not want mining, copyright, price control and branding in Dutch hands. About Justice and Police, the negotiations are going on at this very moment. About education: There is no protocol about the language yet for the secondary education. Primary education will have English as the language of instruction with Dutch as a strong second language.

Mercedes Lopes (GIS) with Mr. Hooker

STATIA IN THE FUTURE, STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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Statianews is of the opinion that we have to attract educated people. The so‐called “brain‐drain” is an obstacle for Statia’s economic growth. If we (for example) have a faculty of a Dutch Pedagogische Academie, we will get a lot of expertise on our is‐land, that will help our local schools. If we have (for example) a Dutch Academy for the Arts or a faculty of a Dutch Conservatory, we attract creative young people. And what about a flying school? We will not only attract students from other islands and from Holland, but we will also attract other people. Hav‐ing a lot of young people on the island will attract tourists. We need a great quality impuls and in my opinion, a college or some faculties of HBO’s or Universities can help. To read more about what RBOI is doing, check: www.rboi.nl (in Dutch)

Statianews had a conversation with Mr. Hans van der Sluis from RBOI. RBOI is the bureau for spatial plan‐ning that is assigned to help Statia with the Strategic Development Plan. In the coming months, they will develop different scenario’s for Statia’s social eco‐nomic development. In the second week of Novem‐ber, they will be back on the island for a public meet‐ing about these scenario’s. RBOI had talks with Gebe, Eutel, the Medical School, Golden Era, the Old Ginhouse, the historical founda‐tion, Secar, the monument foundation, Stenapa, the Tourism board, Mazinga, the Terminal, and the dive shops to make an inventory of ideas and plans. Mr. van der Sluis told me that there is one thing eve‐rybody agrees upon: Statia does not want to become a second St. Maarten. He said that the ideas about the harbor, to make a commercial harbor by the Ter‐minal and a marine with a second pier, where the harbor is located now are in a final stage. Concerning this strategic development, we have to bear in mind that Hollands’ assignment is: Find ways to create possibilities for economic growth; Statia must not be a too big a burden for the Netherlands and the people of Statia must have the same possi‐bilities for personal and economic growth as the peo‐ple in the Netherlands. Statia’s politicians must be ready to involve their electorate. What is the opinion of the people of Statia? Do we want a big golf resort? Do we want a bigger airport? Do we want a marine? Do we want to have “historical tourists”? How do we preserve our own culture, how do we protect our own people? How do we preserve our historical monuments, how do we preserve our nature? One of the things the spatial planning and the eco‐nomic developmentplan is aiming for is: more people on the island. They predict that there will be at least 7000 people living here in a couple of years. What kind of people will be living here? What kind of peo‐ple does Statia want to attract?

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Creative Young People will help our island more than Spanish speaking laborers and Dutch and American pensionada’s.

AVIATION POINEERS EXHIBITION AT THE AIRPORT


any license! ‐ subsequently flown passengers there. A delegation of aviation experts was sent over to St. Maarten from Curaçao to investigate C.A.A.’s application. They were to get more first hand evidence of C.A.A.’s ways of operating than they bargained for ...! Three hours in the burning sun Part of the investigation was a flight to Statia on C.A.A.’s planes. Remy de Haenen himself was one of the pilots taking them to Statia on Monday, December 2, 1946. Not only did they find out that the cabins of the little planes (Stinsons and Kingfishers) could not be opened from the inside (!) and that the radio did not work other than when they were directly over the radio station, but they also landed three hours late because they spent too much time walking to the ‘meteorological station’ (two young men in a room) in St. Barths during a landing there on their way to Statia. The entire ambulant part of Statia’s population had meanwhile been waiting from 9:30am onwards in the burning sun to witness the landing of C.A.A.’s two planes, the busiest day on Statia’s ‘airport’ so far! When they finally landed on the 264m by 20m grassy airstrip, one of the pilots told them he just had to go up and down to St. Kitts to deliver a letter but that he would return in time to fly them back to St. Maarten. The avia‐tion experts went along with the Delegate Lt. Governor C.E.W. Voges to discuss the license for De Haenen’s C.A.A. Statia’s first ‘air crash’ While they were all enjoying lunch at the Delegate Lt. Governor’s residence, the brigadier of police arrived out of breath: “There had been a slight accident at the air‐port.” Everybody (and that can be taken quite literally to

mean ‘Statia’s entire population.’) rushed to the airfield. It turned out that the plane returning from St. Kitts had hit the road that ran a little higher along the head of the landing strip. As a result it landed on its nose. The pilot said that as the runway was so short he had wanted to land as near to where it started as possible. Be‐cause he focused on the little houses on either side of the strip, he had not noticed that the road was higher than the runway. The left part of the plane’s landing gear was totally crushed, the tip of the left wing lay on the ground and the propeller was bent 90 degrees. This meant that for some of the official visitors there was no trans‐

By Walter Hellebrand Statia’s airport has been given extra allure through the unveiling of a historical display illustrating the beginning and development of aviation on the island and its neighbours. Twelve panels celebrate the courage, energy and tenacity of the pioneers who started flying to the is‐lands sometimes even before they had airports. The exhibition is an initiative of the Aviation Pioneers of the Caribbean Foundation and has been put together by its founder Elizabeth (Elly) Delien, partner of many years of the late ‘Captain Pipe,’ José Dormoy. She asked me to assist with the research and writing of the historical information. First official visit by plane in 1946 As a historian I have mostly focused on the 17th and 18th centuries. So the 20th century for me is a new field. But I discovered that the history of aviation in the north‐eastern Caribbean is just as exciting as, for example, the exploits of the pirates in our waters 300‐350 years ago. In the archives of the Foundation I found a series of articles from the Ami‐goe di Curacao describing the first official visit by plane to Statia. The story sums up everything that characterized those early days of aviation on our islands. It is a first hand account by I.C.H.M. Bergman who was one of the members of the visiting party. Rémy de Haenen, an enterprising inhabitant of St. Barths, had started his own airline C.A.A. in 1946, with its base on Flat Island or Tintamarre off the north coast of St. Martin. However, there were a lot of questions about the licensing of both his planes and his pilots. Yet, he applied for a li‐cense to fly mail, cargo and passengers from St. Maarten (which had an airport since 1943) to Statia, where an emer‐gency airstrip had been laid out in 1946. He had already landed there on 5 October of that same year and – without

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C.C.A. Kinfgisher, the planes Rémy de Haenen flew

AVIATION PIONEERS EXHIBITION AT THE AIRPORT


resident José Dormoy, the recent history of our islands might have looked very different. Both the Commissioner for St. Eustatius, Saba and Bon‐aire, Henk Kamp and Lt. Governor Hyden Gittens ac‐knowledged this in their speeches during the unveiling ceremony at the airport. During his address, St. Maarten politician and entrepre‐neur Michael Ferrier made a point of recommending Statia as the perfect place for a flying school for the re‐gion. His words seemed to find a favorable resonance with the politicians present. It is also one of the goals of the Foundation. So the time seems right to try to get things moving.

Call for more documentation The Foundation would like to invite everyone with stories or images relating to the history of aviation on our islands to bring them to the attention of the members of its board, Elly Delien, Walter Hellebrand, Terrance Rey or Nyna Burright and then we can have copies made in order to make our account of the history of aviation on our islands as comprehensive as possible. You can reach us via the Foundation’s website http://www.aviationpioneers.info or through [email protected].

port back to St. Maarten. And they had to fly back from there to Curaçao the next day! > However, De Haenen said it should not be a problem: he would just fly back to Tintamarre, get another landing gear and propeller or rip one of another plane and then fly back to Statia to repair the damaged aircraft and return to St. Maarten before dark. De Haenen only returned after 17:00 – without a propeller but with half a landing gear. Together with the visitors, De Haenen and his pilots replaced the wrecked gear. As Mr. Bergman was the heaviest of the group he had to hang from the left wing to get it back in place. The plane was back on its legs – but still without a propeller. Full moon flight By now it was almost dark and they still had only one plane that could fly. It was decided that the colleague whose wife was in St. Maarten could board and that the other two (including Bergman) would remain ‘planewrecked’ on Statia. Again, De Haenen said there was no problem: as it was full moon he would fly to Guadeloupe that same night to get a new propeller and deliver it to Statia by daybreak so that the remaining two could get back in time for their KLM flight to Curacao. The two castaways were put up in the Government Guest‐house and made the best of the situation. Needless to say that meanwhile they had decided together with Mr. Voges that C.A.A. would not get permission to land on Statia. However, they would communicate this decision to De Haenen in a letter which Voges would only hand over to him after the two visitors were in his plane and he was ready to take off ‐ just in case he would decide not to take them back to St. Maarten for sheer spite... They waited the next morning at the airfield from 6 o’clock. Time crept on: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 o’clock – still no plane. And that same afternoon at 16:00 they had to be on the KLM flight! Finally at 13:00 De Haenen landed – again witnessed by almost every Statian who could walk to Concordia. The new propeller was quickly mounted on the plane. About 14:00 everything was ready. The two ended up making the trip from Statia to Curaçao on 3 December 1946 in 5 hours: a record that would stand for a very long time! Commissioner Henk Kamp and Lt. Governor Hyden Git‐tens The twelve panels of the display include more examples of this atmosphere of adventure and audacity of the early days of local aviation on Flat Island, St. Barths, St. Maarten, Statia and Saba. And in hindsight it seems that this defiance is what was needed at the time. Without the fearless en‐ergy of these early pioneers, including long time Statia

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The chairman of the Foundation, Mr. Terrance Rey (managing director of AirStMaarten, a company offering private charters throughout the Caribbean), expressed his thanks to Alida Francis for acting as Master of Ceremo‐nies, the management of the F.D. Roosevelt Airport for accommodating the display and the reception, the St. Eustatius Tourism Development Foundation for sponsor‐ing the catering, and Jan Beaujon of WIB and former Wi‐nair agent on Statia, Ricardo Fortin, for their donations to the Foundation. Anyone who would like to make a dona‐tion can do so via the account with number 105805306 in the name of the Aviation Pioneers of the Caribbean Foun‐dation at the Windward Islands Bank. Also, checks can be mailed to the treasurer, Elizabeth M. Delien c/o Mazinga Gift Shop, Mazinga Square, St. Eustatius.

STATIA TOURISM WEEK


On Saturday the annual awards were given out. Dino Daal from the Tourism Development Bureau in Curacao was the keynote speaker. There was a lot of criticism about his remarks about the roaming animals. He said that these roaming animals give our island a charm that is attractive for certain tour‐ists. Unfortunately for Mr. Daal, there is not a soul on Statia that thinks we should keep it this way with the roaming animals.

Statia Tourism Week 2009 Tourism week is an annual event. This year it was held from Monday Sept 21 to Saturday Sept. 26. Be‐cause its purpose is to foster awareness among the local community of the importance of tourism, all schools were participating.

The theme was: “Tourism Diversity and Globaliza‐tion”. The students made field trips to the construc‐tion site of Knippenga, to Gebe, to the Labour Office, to Eutel, to the health department, to the Nustar Energy Terminal, to Green Blend to the Congo pre‐serve and to Berkels’ family farm.

The children made presentations that were exhibited in the Tourist Office.

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In front of the Gebe office

Schoolchildren visiting Eutel

Schoolchildren visiting the Congo Preserve

This presentation about transportation was made by the Golden Rock school

STATIONS FOR STATIA


The Stations and crucifix will be put up in the church after its restoration. Father Raffie is planning to have a fully restored church ready for the cen‐tenary celebration of the building on June 12, 2010. The church was included – along with the 18th cen‐tury building next to the church – in the Monu‐ments Inventory that was put together by Walter Hellebrand and presented to the Government of Statia by the St. Eustatius Monuments Foundation on March 27 of this year. Walter was able to show Father Raffie a photograph from 1910 or shortly after, showing the original open belfry for the church bell (which was later replaced by the little turret that was pulled down in the early 1980’s). Father Raffie appreciated this visual help with the restoration plans. However, it is still unclear where the Statia Government is with the process from Monuments Inventory to official Monuments List. <

By Walter Hellebrand Father Raphael “Raffie” Cananea, the priest of Statia’s Roman Catholic parish, received a set of terracotta Stations of the Cross to hang up in the church in time for the centenary celebrations of the building next year. They were pre‐sented to him along with a large wooden crucifix and a set of church linen by Walter Hellebrand. He handed over the gift on behalf of his mother Elly Hellebrand who was an active member of the church of St. Eustatius and a val‐ued member of the church choir when the family lived in Statia. Mrs. Hellebrand now lives in Soestdijk in the Netherlands. When she heard that the church of the St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception parish in Soest‐dijk was going to be pulled down, she suggested that she knew a good new home for some of the liturgical objects. During her last visit to Statia (2006) she noticed that the Stations of the Cross hanging in the church were in bad re‐pair. Stations of the Cross in Roman Catholic churches depict fourteen mo‐ments of the passion and death of Je‐sus Christ with a fifteenth showing the Resurrection. Restoration for centenary As the Stations from the church in Soestdijk are made from terracotta (a kind of ceramic material), they cannot be damaged by the climate or insects and therefore make a perfect replacement for the dam‐aged ones in Statia’s church. They were created by Ulrich Manders who received the inspiration to make them when he was told that because of his illness he did not have long left to live. Mrs. Hellebrand con‐tacted her friend Elisabeth Berkel on Statia who in turn spoke with Father Raffie. He said the parish would gladly welcome the new Stations. Mrs. Helle‐brand then also secured the crucifix and church linen for her former parish church. Antoine Kanters of Dutch Plumbing agreed to take care of the transport of the items to Statia.

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Father Raphael Cananea (right) receiving one of the 15 Stations of the Cross from Walter Hellebrand in front of the 18th century build‐ing which was the Roman Catholic church from 1845 to 1910, and was in use as the kindergarten and primary school until the 1960’s. In the eighties it was a daycare centre. (picture by Althea Merkman)

AIR STATIA

PAGE 9 LETTER TO THE EDITOR STATIA NEWS

recover the purchase cost in a reasonable time. But the total traffic between St. Maarten and Statia is presently not sufficient to support such a service. In my opinion, what we need is a more economical air service similar to what DiviDivi offers between Curacao and Bonaire, at about half the price that we pay for a Winair ticket to St. Maarten. But I don't think that we are likely to see such a service started until conditions change. Possibly some day The Netherlands will be in a position to subsidize such a service to offset the PJIA fees, but I doubt that this would be a popular idea in the present economic conditions. Best regards, George Works

Black and Gold Fast and Bold Paper nest Stinging pest Flitting about Coralita nectar Your vector Annoying wasp One clap Carefully aimed YOU DEAD JACKIE

About a year ago I, along with my wife Shelley and Erik Ward, formed Statia Air Services NV with the intention of starting a new airline, Air Statia, to pro‐vide a more reasonable cost for travel to St. Maarten. Unfortunately, after considerable work at our own expense, we have abandoned the attempt. We have now closed the Air Statia website and are in the proc‐ess of dissolving Statia Air Services NV. We found several difficulties: 1. The fees at PJIA (Prinses Juliana International Air‐port in St. Maarten, ed.) are among the highest in the Caribbean and essentially make it impossible to have a low fare service from Statia. 2. The close relationship between PJIA, Winair and the St. Maarten island government make starting a competing airline a risky venture. 3. The Netherlands has not taken over regulation of air line companies on Statia as we originally ex‐pected, so at the moment it is still necessary to ob‐tain an economic permit from the Antilles govern‐ment to operate an airline. The Antilles requires that the airline be majority owned by native Antilleans, and that it not provide "excess service" to service already available. 4. The changing economic environment has made it difficult to raise investment capital to purchase air‐craft, build a maintenance hanger, and so forth. The only investment money that we were able to raise was our own. Before forming Statia Air Services we also investi‐gated the possibility of a regular ferry service. Fast Catamaran service to Phillipsburg is certainly possi‐ble, and used ferries are available at reasonable prices. Unfortunately, the relatively rough seas be‐tween Statia and St. Maarten, especially in the win‐ter, would require a fairly large vessel so that the passengers did not become seasick. These larger ves‐sels are capable of seating upwards of 200 passen‐gers and typically have two or more 2000 horse‐power diesel engines for propulsion. They burn a lot of diesel fuel. It would not be economical to run them with just a few tens of passengers, they would need to be at least half full. And they would need to make at least a round trip a day, or preferably two, to

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JACKIE

SHIRTS FOR STATIA, THANKS

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Ready to play against St. Maarten in the new shirts. Team manager Paul Fletcher and head of the board Cleford Williams very proud to wear the JAC jackets.

Bart Kusters thinking of ways how to get the bags to Statia.

Rick Kusters with a new jacket, Randy and Romario checking the bags.

Thanks JAC! Hopefully the winter in Scheveningen will not be too cold!

APPOINTMENTS WITH HENK KAMP

PAGE 11 ANNOUNCEMENTS STATIA NEWS

For Saba citizens: Oct. 5, from 4—5 pm For Statia citizens: Oct. 8, from 2—3 pm

Copied form the GIS paper: Information Bulletin It is a monthly publication of the island territory of St. Eustatius., email: [email protected] The Labour Department hereby makes it known that petitions have been submitted by employers to obtain work permits for foreigners in the functions mentioned below. �� Full time Administrative clerk The applicant should be able to work with Quick books, Internet Explorer, Taxation forms, book keeping, write and read Dutch language. �� Part Time Administrative Clerk The applicant should be able to speak English and being able to articulate in Spanish is a plus. To acquire more information about these vacancies you may contact the Labour department by phone 318– 2881 to make an appointment. Email: [email protected]

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VACANCY FOR STATIA’S LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Island Government of St. Eustatius, Personnel Affairs Department acknowledged that there are a number of vacancies within the Government Administration that are presently va-cant. These vacancies are: �� Head of Welfare Department �� Head of Sport Department �� Head of Economic Affairs Depart-ment For more information regarding the conditions for each vacancy, applicants are advised to contact the Head of the Office of Personnel Affairs. Ms. Florence Marlin. Tel.nr.: 318 2931 E-mail: [email protected]

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