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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Wagner (BonaireTalker - Post #12) on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 3:46 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

We left Bonaire on Thursday the 26th, the day before the elections. Can anyone on BT tell me the results?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tish (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #834) on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 3:57 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

The Green party won.
This is the party already in power.
Our island governor (whose title I believe is Lt. Governor as an NA official) is the son of Ebo, for whom Capt. Don named two reefs: Ebo's Reef and Ebo's Special (which the Divi insists on calling Jerry's Reef).
Capt. Don considers Ebo Bonaire's first dive master. He would not let anybody except Ebo guide dives on the reefs he named for his friend.
I believe the Bonaire Reporter published a wonderful interview with Ebo about a year ago. As I recall it, he speaks about the importance of children learning sound values. He had a big family.
I admit to knowing little about island politics; I do not have the right to vote.
But I think divers on Bonaire can feel okay about the final Netherlands Antilles government and the island's leader.
Now we must look ahead to what sort of "part" of Holland we will become.
Please, those of you who know more about this than I do, join in and correct or augment what I've said.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #398) on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 4:15 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Yes, the Green party won. Like last time they have 2 seats in the central government (which is thought to be the last Parlament for the Netherlands Antilles, as changes are supposed to take place 1st of July 2007). The Red party got togehter with the Blue and the Yellow party and managed that way to secure the 3rd seat for Bonaire in the Central Government.
The Green (the leader is Ramoncito Booi) is the one who did all the talks up to now together with the other 2 little islands (Saba and St.Eustatius) with The Netherlands about the changes. The Red party (leader Joopi Abrahams) is always against everything Ramoncito says and refused last year also to be in the work group for the statut changes and just before election started to complain about the "dictator" Ramoncito .... forgetting that the result of the Referendum was clearly that the people of Bonaire want to have that direct link to the Netherlands ...

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #399) on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 5:19 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

By the way, the lt.Governor (as the lt.governors of the other islands and the governor of the Netherlands Antilles) is not elected, but appointed by the Queen - after propositions from the concerned islands and in case of the governor from the central government.

 


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