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Is this accurate? The area of the Antilles is given as 960 sq km in the article, Zeeland is 2683 sq km according to [1]. But maybe the latter includes a lot of water? ( 11:53, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Were there people in the Netherlands Antilles prior to the arrivals of Columbus and de Ojeda? If so, we can't say they "discovered" or suggest they were the initial settlers of the islands. Beginning 16:19, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)
I would like to announce the establishment of the Wikipedia:Caribbean Wikipedians' notice board. Anyone with an interest in the Caribbean is welcome to join in. Guettarda 1 July 2005 13:37 (UTC)
Before you put Het Wilhelmus out of the infobox,the Netherlands Antilles is an dependent area of the Netherlands,and therefore Het Wilhelmus is also an official national anthem,and that also counts for Aruba.
It's not a dependent area of the Netherlands, it's an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, of which the Netherlands is the European part and the Antilles and Aruba are the Caribbean parts. The Wilhelmus is only the anthem of the European part of the kingdom. Aecis 09:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Reaching out to the Caribbean Monday, December 19, 2005 http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/12/19/out.shtml
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Mr. Alex Rosaria, Minister in charge of Economic and Labour Affairs opened the conference and talked about the position of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean as part of the geographic region with a common history, an equal present and a future in which each island has an important role to play in the Caribbean region.
Mr. Rosaria emphasized that the Netherlands Antilles is on the verge of profound constitutional changes. Sint Maarten and Curaçao are about to become autonomous countries in the Dutch Kingdom.
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CaribDigita 18:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
If anyone can provide a reference to how the economy and drug trafficking relates to each other, then you are more than welcome to put that back in, but for now I've removed it from the first paragraph. Leftist 04:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Is same-sex marriage legal in the Netherlands Antilles? I imagine it would be, considering that it is on the mainland. Should something about it go in the article? Hihellowhatsup 05:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
There is now a proposed WikiProject for the Caribbean area, including Anguilla, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Caribbean. Interested parties should add their names there so we can determine if there is enough interest to start such a project in earnest. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
From "Future Status", I've removed marijuana. It was mentioned alongside same-sex marriage and prostitution as legal on the mainland. However, in The Netherlands it's still illegal to import, grow, sell and own marijuana, but ownership is tolerated (this does not mean it's legal) in most cases when for personal use and in quantities below 5 grams. However, marijuana's illegal status has been used by courts to convict some owners of small quantities in special cases. I feel reluctant to introduce all of this in an article that is not about marijuana, and chose to rather remove it than to explain and ruin the flow and the focus of the article. So: does marijuana need to be mentioned, you think? In case, can it be done in a short way? Wurdnurd 12:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, it could be mentioned as "tolerance" for marijuana use, since laws regarding cannabis are far more strict than they are in the mainland of the Netherlands. Hihellowhatsup 23:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Somebody put that part back; it seems like everybody refuses to accept that marijuana is actually illegal in the Netherlands... I re-removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.193.146.111 ( talk) 02:45, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Isn't English the/an official language of the three northerly islands? Dedden 18:24, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
They speak english, but "Official" language is dutch (all government paper work is done in dutch) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.160.118.126 ( talk) 08:15, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Wasn't the breakup supposed to be for July 1, 2007? Why then the delay by nearly a year and half? And am I understanding the municipality status of Bonaire, Saba, and St. Eustasius correctly in that they will be separate political entities from each other? They will NOT form one political entity known as the "Kingdom Islands", and they will NOT either join with an existing province or form their own province? Inkan1969 22:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
This article states the total area as 960 km2, which agrees with the CIA Factbook. Adding the individual island areas, however, gives 800 km2, which agrees with various sources including the Stateman's Yearbook, World Gazetteer, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. It wouldn't seem that the disrepency could be attributed to the area of inland water, but I suppose that's possible. What's the deal? GorillaTheater 15:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that this English wikipedia article on the Netherlands Antilles makes little mention of the various languages spoken on the islands. If one looks at the Dutch (Nederlands) wikipedia article for the Netherlands Antilles, there is an entire section devoted to language which essentially states: "the official languages of the Netherlands Antilles are Dutch, English and Papiamento. Papiamento, the most widely spoken language in the Leeward islands (Bonaire and Curacao or ABC islands), is a Creole language based on Portuguese or Spanish, with much Dutch and also English and French influences. On the Windward islands (Saba, Statia and St. Maarten or SSS islands) English the is the most widely spoken language. The schools were always Dutch-speaking, but after some years it had been decided in the primary schools to introduce Papiamento and English as education languages. The middle schools remain Dutch-speaking, because they make use of the same central written final examinations as in the Netherlands and because many schoolchildren will follow higher education after middle school in the Netherlands. Antillean literature has been mainly written in the Dutch and Papiamento, but also for a small part in English and Spanish." It then goes on to show a sortable table the most widely spoken languages in the home as percentages of the population for the islands. The table seems alright, except not all the figures add up to 100%. For example the figures for Bonaire and St. Eustatius add up to 101% and the figures for the total add up to 99%, but that might be because the figures reflect a small number of people who use more than one language regularly. Overall though the table shows what the the text had outlined before with 75% of the population of Bonaire and 81% of the population of Curacao speaking Papiamento, while 68% of the population of St. Maarten, 83% of St. Eustatius' population and 88% of Saba's population speak English. So, should the section on language from the Dutch article be included in this article? 72.27.81.161 22:10, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I have trimmed down the prose (too wordy) in the referendum section and instead have opted for the tables. I hope this helps. - Thanks, Hos hie 10:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
According to this article (in Dutch, sourced by ANP), Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez recently said he wants the northern Venezulean border investigated. According to Chávez, everything within a 200 nautical mile radius should be regarded Venzuelean territory -- the Netherlands Antilles are of course well within that area. Any thoughts on this, any other sources and should we mention it in the article? unsigned, apparently by 87.210.195.174 Oh,sorry, "it was I, SQB" but not logged on.
Is the expected government reform mentioned in the article? That the Antilles are planned to become a province again. Mallerd ( talk) 15:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
What does "AHO" stand for? 86.136.248.36 ( talk) 13:12, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
What does "status aparte" mean? — Tokek ( talk) 12:37, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
The country was supposed to die in January 2009, but it was saved, shouldn't this be added?-- 24.171.0.229 ( talk) 17:01, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
This article states "it was decided in November 2008 that the official currency will be the U.S. dollar and not the Euro.". The dutch version however states the the Euro will be used from the 10th of October. I haven´t found any info to back either assumption though... Pepijnk ( talk) 16:41, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
This article is really horrible on the administrative history of these islands. When was the "Netherlands Antilles" set up. What was it known as before that, and when was that set up? At present, it's intensely vague. john k ( talk) 01:35, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Why don't we make the link in the infobox go to North Holland rather than the BES Islands? -- Gimelthedog ( talk) 02:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Is this article for real? Honestly?
I knw there's been some changes administratively but whoever has done the re-write has just changed the "is" and "are" to "was" and "were". Very poor indeed.
Watch this, this is taken from the article
The majority of the population were followers of the Christian faith, with a Protestant majority in Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten, and a Roman Catholic majority in Bonaire, Curaçao and Saba. Curaçao also hosted a sizeable group of followers of the Jewish faith, descendants of a Portuguese group of Sephardic Jews that arrived from Amsterdam and Brazil from 1654.
Is the majority of the population not Christian still? Does Curaçao not still host a sizeable Jewish population? If you think your re-write was good you need to have a re-read. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.239.159.5 ( talk) 12:38, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
The 'History' section in this article gives a better overview of the history of the Netherlands Antilles than the 'History of the Netherlands Antilles' article, but it does not contain everything that is in that article. I would suggest to merge that article into this History section. Styath ( talk) 13:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I propose that Dutch Caribbean be merged into Netherlands Antilles. I think that the content in the Dutch Caribbean article can easily be explained in the context of Netherlands Antilles, and the Netherlands Antilles article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Dutch Caribbean will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 21:41, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
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I'm confused. Why did the islands want independence from the Antilles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:8C00:EE:8BD:566E:7E1C:64E ( talk) 05:27, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hello,
I have looked at the article of Netherlands Antilles and says it existed between 1954 and 2010. It appears that many of the articles of people born there states they were born in Curacao, not the Netherlands Antilles which would be wrong as it was not known as Curacao during these dates.
I have seen 10 pages of famous people born in
Willemstad but most of them say they were born in the country in it's wrong name at the time. This can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=771677085
though I have noticed now that there are two mistakes in the explanation which I forgot to change.
Other famous people who were born in countries which no longer exists do have their name of the country in the year they were born. e.g. Dusan Tadic correctly says his birthplace is SFR Yugoslavia instead of Serbia.
The page Vurnon Anita has his birthplace repeatedly changed to Curacao then Netherlands Antilles since November 2016.
There are also a number of articles whose birthplace say "Curacao" instead of "Netherlands Antilles." It should be appropriate to list the birth country as "Curacao" if the person was born after 10 October 2010. Obviously, we must not label the birth country to Curacao if the birth place is not in the country.
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