Published: 01 February 2021
SABA: - Janice Massiah, who is bound to a wheelchair, is extremely happy with her new bathroom which is fully adapted to her situation. “This is my palace. I feel so good,” she said during the visit of Commissioner Rolando Wilson, Head of the Planning Bureau Boddy Zagers, and Eviton Heyliger of the Own Your Own Home Foundation (OYOHF) on Friday, January 29.
Janice, a nurse by profession, had no suitable bathroom in her house in St. John’s. Her urgent situation made her a good candidate for the pilot project funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (SZW) and Public Health, Wellbeing and Sport (VWS) as part of the larger endeavor to implement the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Saba. The OYOHF contributed to the pilot project, while the Planning Bureau supervised the project.
Published: 20 January 2021
SABA: -As part of the BES(t) 4 Kids program, a childcare cost price-reducing subsidy has been introduced which lowers the monthly amount that parents have to pay for their child(ren) in daycare and after-school care.
The BES(t) 4 Kids program is continuously working on improving the quality in childcare in the Caribbean Netherlands, including Saba. To further promote safe and high-quality childcare on Saba, the program has initiated the cost price-reducing subsidy, which will decrease the monthly parental fee for both daycare and after-school care.
The subsidy went into effect per January 1, 2021, for all children attending daycare and after-school care. Parents will pay a monthly fee of US $100 per child attending daycare on a full-time basis. The monthly fee for children attending daycare on a part-time basis will be US $50, while the monthly fee for after-school care has been set at US $50 per month.