CARIBBEAN KIDS NEWS
CKN is seeking financial support
Caribbean Kids News (CKN) is a unique program for Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba, thus for six very special but quite different islands.
For the first time a news program informs young people between 9 and 14 years and gives them a voice in the Caribbean region. The Caribbean Kids News broadcasts since September 2009 in English and Papiamento (with subtitles in Dutch or English).
The Foundation Youth into Media, a nonprofit organization responsible for the sustainable development of this youth news program, is looking for businesses, organizations and private persons willing …
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GEERT WILDERS BEFORE LISTENING TO HIS SPEECH ON 9/11
Geert Wilders: “There is nothing wrong with Islam”
The Dutch congressman Geert Wilders (Freedom Party (Partij voor de Vrijheid)) will deliver a speech on September 11, 2010 in New York in opposition to the proposed building of a mosque close to Ground Zero. He will not only condemn the followers of Islam, but also Islam itself. He has already talked about a “dreadful mosque”. It is a great pity that he makes these sorts of statements. About 10 years ago Geert Wilders had very different opinions.
On September 24, 2001 Geert Wilders was a guest on the Dutch TV program …
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CARIBBEAN KIDS NEWS WINS KNN AWARD 2010
Item about fire trucks (click here)
The kids news in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba has won the ‘KNN Award’ during the annual summit of the eight Kids News Network programmes. The award is a yearly professional prize for the best report of the network (see FreeVoice news item).
Sulin Passial, chief editor of the Caribbean Kids News has proudly received the price in the form of a South African art piece, on behalf of her team (picture …
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FINAL POSTING OF 2009
Nobel Winds & Breezes
Good poetry begins with the lightest touch, a breeze arriving from nowhere, a whispered healing arrival, a word in your ear, a settling into things, then like a hand in the dark it arrests the whole body, steeling you for revelation. (David Whyte)
Let’s talk about winds. Nobel winds. Nobel winds and breezes. Sometimes law even has something to say about the wind, for instance, when you consider building or buying a wind farm at a certain site. A windstorm may have legal consequences too. There are legal aspects involved when you want to …
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TED – IDEAS WORTH SPREADING
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
How to keep yourself informed about the newest innovations and the most fascinating ideas of our time? Through TED.com (free videos), the TED annual conferences, the annual TED Prize, local TEDx events and TED Twitter.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED is an academic organization owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation.
Topics:
Transition to a world without oil / Science inspired design / The year I was homeless / The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology / Navigating our global …
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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, A CONVENIENT LIE?
Global Warming Research Data Manipulated?
Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center of a University in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — fueling debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change (click here).
According to the New York Times:
The e-mail messages, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some …
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HELP MAKE CURACAO ABLED
The Laura and Wagner Foundation Fundraising Evening
On Thursday December 3, 2009, the Laura and Wagner Foundation are holding a fundraising evening at the Netherlands Antilles Central Bank.
Special guests will appear via TeleConference to discuss how to make technology more abled for the disabled. Click here to read the flyer.
The Laura and Wagner Foundation is a Curacao-based non-profit NGO (non-govermental organization) whose mission is to serve as an advocate for disabled people of all ages in Curacao and the Netherlands Antilles by:
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CARIBBEAN KIDS NEWS
The Dutch Antillean ‘Jeugdjournaal’
The Curacao-based Foundation Youth Into Media (Stichting Youth Into Media) is responsible for the sustainable development of a youth news program – Caribbean Kids News – on television and the internet for the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. The first show of ‘Caribbean Kids News’ was on September 14, 2009 on TeleCuracao.
Caribbean Kids News is a unique program for Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles (Curacao, Bonaire, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba), thus for six very special but quite different islands. For the first time a news program informs young people between …
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SPOTLIGHT ON CURACAO
Curacao economic country survey inserted in the New York Post
In May 2009, United International Press (UIP) issued a special bulletin on Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles, in an insert in the New York Post. UIP has also placed the bulletin on its website. Curacao is described as a Caribbean Hub with Investment Appeal. Amongst various government institutions and businesses, Spigthoff Attorneys & Tax Advisers is also mentioned (click here).
According to its website,
“United International Press is a media agency specialized in the production of comprehensive economic country surveys inserted in the New York Post. …
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CURACAO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON REFERENDUM
Kámara di Komèrsio Kòrsou:
Un voto ‘NO’ ta funesto pa klima ekonómiko.
Un voto ‘NO’ ta funesto pa pueblo di Kòrsou.
Karel Frielink:
Bo ta kere ku futuro ta mas importante ku pasado? SI
Bo ta kere mester solushoná nos debenan? SI
Bo ta kere ku e pakete ta un base pa drecha ekonomia i redusí pobresa? SI
Bo ta kere ku SI ta ofresé Kòrsou un mihó futuro? SI
SI ta e kontesta pa hóben i grandinan, riku i pober, Hindu, Katóliko, Moslim, pretu, blanku, nasé na Kòrsou òf otro kaminda. SI ta uni hende di diferente kultura i …
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AWEL SI
Pueblo ta papia palabra kla
Bo ta kere den Kòrsou? SI
Bo ta kere ku Kòrsou tin chèns ainda di mehorá? SI
Bo ta kere ku nos mester biba na pas i den harmonia ku otro? SI
Bo ta kere ku futuro ta mas importante ku pasado? SI
Bo ke e mihó pa bo yunan? SI
Bo ta kere den òrdu i stabilidat? SI
Bo ta kere nos mester mehorá nos kuido di salú? SI
Bo ta kere nos mester krea trabou? SI
Bo ta kere ku nos mester keda partner di …
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VOTA SI
‘SI’ pa Futuro di Kòrsou
SI bo tin Kòrsou na pechu, bo tambe ta preokupá pa futuro di nos isla. E momentu a yega pa ábo mete kuné.
Mi stima Kòrsou i mi ta deSIdido pa biba aki i kontribuí na bienestar di mi pais. Ami mes ke disidí mi futuro i esun di mi lugá. Mi ta konvensí ku SI ta e mihó opshon pa un mihó futuro.
Karel Frielink
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