– Edgar Vonk – Flickr / CC 2.0 by-nc-sa – NOS News•today, 21:40•Amended today, 21:53 — The body that rescuers on Curaçao have found, indeed belongs to the 45-year-old man from Leiden who has been searched for since Wednesday. Police, fire brigade and defense found the body south of the mountain Seru Bientu in Christoffel … Read more
Correspondence to Dick Drayer from Curaçao: I spoke here with François van der Hoeven, an experienced hiker. He is familiar with the area and told me that especially now that there is so much rain, the area has become impassable due to the vegetation. If you stay on the trails, there’s nothing to worry about. … Read more
A Dutch tourist has been missing on Curaçao since Tuesday. The man is on vacation with his family and has not returned after a walk. Officers, volunteers and forest rangers are looking for the man, the police confirm. The search will continue on Thursday, police said. It concerns a man who went hiking near Playa … Read more
– NOS / Dick Drayer – NOS News•today, 01:41 – Dick Drayer Correspondent Curacao — Dick Drayer Correspondent Curacao — –— Curaçao writer, singer and actress Diana Lebacs died on Monday in a hospice on the island from the effects of pancreatic cancer. Lebacs played an important role in the development of Dutch-Antillean children’s literature … Read more
The police arrested six people in the Netherlands on Thursday evening who were allegedly involved in the trafficking and smuggling of cocaine from Curaçao. Houses, sheds and sheds were searched in thirteen places. The raids took place in Hengelo, Enschede, Vlaardingen, Delft, IJmuiden and Amsterdam. A search was also carried out in Vreden, just across … Read more
Five dolphins left Curaçao for Saudi Arabia on a cargo plane on Tuesday. Last week, the Animal Rights Foundation initiated summary proceedings against the departure of the animals, but the judge ruled that the departure of the dolphins is allowed if the permits are in order. That was the case on Tuesday. According to the … Read more
Guus Hiddink announced his retirement. Stating that he decided to retire in a television program in his country, the 74-year-old Dutch coach said that Curaçao, an island located in the south of the Caribbean Sea, in the north of Venezuela, where he last worked, could not achieve the successes he aimed for in the national … Read more
The Curacaa national football team had to resign just a few hours before the start of the North and Central American championship due to the high number of positive coronavirus tests on the team. The surprising quarterfinalists of the previous year’s 2019 Gold Cup in Group A were replaced at the last minute by Guatemala. … Read more
Curaçao midfielder Kenji Gorré was absent from the team’s practice this Thursday, however, local press points out that the number of infections is increasing The midfielder of the Curaçao team Kenji Gorré tested positive for Covid-19 and will not participate on Saturday in the debut of his team in the Gold Cup against El SalvadorHowever, … Read more
The Public Entity Bonaire (OLB) confirms this to our reporter. Reporter Dick Drayer, who is active for – among others – Reismedia and Curaçao.nu, says the OLB has confirmed him the improved color code for Bonaire. Drayer has spoken to several sources for the change of codes on the other islands. With code yellow for … Read more