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[email protected] Since 1994 Also in this issue: Light Parade pg. 2 Sea Grass Nets pg. 3 Consumer Prices pg. 6 Glen I Su Geng New CD pg.10 Boat Fire pg. 14 … and much more he first Kingdom Day Commitment to Development Table of Contents T holiday was celebrated Index (CDI), produced annually last Monday, December 15. The by the Centre for Global Devel- new holiday results from changes opment, an independent think- This Week’s Stories in the political structure of the tank that works to reduce global Netherlands Antilles since the poverty. New Citizens on Kingdom Day 2 concept of the Dutch Antilles as Sea Grass Protection at Lac 3 an integrated country is disap- X Next year, the Dutch econ- Chicken’s Drop-Church Rises 9 pearing. In referenda held during omy is set to shrink for the first Music School Concert and Awards 1 0 New MCB Head Office 10 2000-2005, the island populations time since the early 1980s, ac- Glenn i Su Geng’s expressed the wish to secede from cording to the latest prediction New CD, “Palu Grandi" 11 the Netherlands Antilles, but to from the government’s economic Young Chefs To Italy 11 remain, each in their own way, a forecasting organization, the Beanie Babies for Bonaire 12 part of the Kingdom of the Neth- CPB, published on Monday. Eco Swim Resutts 13 erlands.