Security Interests Burdening Transport Vehicles: The Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and its Implementation in the Netherlands and on the Dutch Caribbean Islands

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sjef van Erp
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Dutch Caribbean

scholarly journals Plasmid diversity among genetically related Klebsiella pneumoniae blaKPC-2 and blaKPC-3 isolates collected in the Dutch national surveillance

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni P. A. Hendrickx ◽  
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Fabian Landman ◽  
Angela de Haan ◽  
Dyogo Borst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Klebsiella Pneumoniae ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance Genes ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Sequencing Analysis ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Long Read ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Dutch Caribbean ◽  
Generation Sequencing

Abstract Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae emerged as a nosocomial pathogen causing morbidity and mortality in patients. For infection prevention it is important to track the spread of K. pneumoniae and its plasmids between patients. Therefore, the major aim was to recapitulate the contents and diversity of the plasmids of genetically related K. pneumoniae strains harboring the beta-lactamase gene blaKPC-2 or blaKPC-3 to determine their dissemination in the Netherlands and the former Dutch Caribbean islands from 2014 to 2019. Next-generation sequencing was combined with long-read third-generation sequencing to reconstruct 22 plasmids. wgMLST revealed five genetic clusters comprised of K. pneumoniae blaKPC-2 isolates and four clusters consisted of blaKPC-3 isolates. KpnCluster-019 blaKPC-2 isolates were found both in the Netherlands and the Caribbean islands, while blaKPC-3 cluster isolates only in the Netherlands. Each K. pneumoniae blaKPC-2 or blaKPC-3 cluster was characterized by a distinct resistome and plasmidome. However, the large and medium plasmids contained a variety of antibiotic resistance genes, conjugation machinery, cation transport systems, transposons, toxin/antitoxins, insertion sequences and prophage-related elements. The small plasmids carried genes implicated in virulence. Thus, implementing long-read plasmid sequencing analysis for K. pneumoniae surveillance provided important insights in the transmission of a KpnCluster-019 blaKPC-2 strain between the Netherlands and the Caribbean.

scholarly journals Ki sorto di Reino/What kind of Kingdom? : Antillean and Aruban views and expectations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Verton ◽  
Gert Oostindie
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Constitutional Rule ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Dutch Caribbean

Article, based on the research report Ki sorto di Reino / What kind of Kingdom (1998), presents the outcome of an opinion poll carried out on the 6 Dutch Caribbean islands in 1997-98. The survey covers the views and expectations of the Antilleans and Arubans with regard to the Kingdom, and in particular the Netherlands. Themes covered include the constitutional structure; residence and passport; protection of national territory, democracy, and constitutional rule; economic support; respect; and education.

An annotated checklist of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) of the Dutch Caribbean islands

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4701 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
MARTIN SOESBERGEN ◽  
JOS SINKELDAM
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Large Branchiopods ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Dutch Caribbean ◽  
Annotated Checklist

The launch of the Dutch Caribbean Species Register by Naturalis Biodiversity Center (2017)—https://www.dutchcaribbeanspecies.org/—raised the question of which branchiopods originate from this part of the Netherlands. To answer this question, surveys of literature and of the Naturalis collection were conducted. The additional samples (collected in 2003–2005 and 2008) were analyzed. We present an annotated checklist of the Branchiopoda of the Dutch Caribbean.                 The Kingdom of the Netherlands includes the Dutch mainland and six Caribbean islands. From the Caribbean part of the kingdom, an annotated list of all known species is given. Fifteen taxa and three genera have been encountered and the species are discussed. To date, six species of large branchiopods and nine species of cladocerans are known. Two more genera of cladocerans have been found. One species is endemic to Bonaire. 

scholarly journals Contribution of amenable mortality to life expectancy differences between the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao and the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Soraya P. A. Verstraeten ◽  
Hans A. M. van Oers ◽  
Johan P. Mackenbach
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Mortality Trends ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Amenable Mortality ◽  
Dutch Caribbean ◽  
Circulatory Diseases

Objective. To identify specific health care areas whose optimization could improve population health in the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao. Methods. Comparative observational study using mortality and population data of the Dutch Caribbean islands and the Netherlands. Mortality trends were calculated, then analyzed with Joinpoint software, for the period 1988–2014. Life expectancies were computed using abridged life tables for the most recent available data of all territories (2005–2007). Life expectancy differences between the Dutch Caribbean and the Netherlands were decomposed into cause-specific contributions using Arriaga’s method. Results. During the period 1988–2014, levels of amenable mortality have been consistently higher in Aruba and Curaçao than in the Netherlands. For Aruba, the gap in amenable mortality with the Netherlands did not significantly change during the study period, while it widened for Curaçao. If mortality from amenable causes were reduced to similar levels as in the Netherlands, men and women in Aruba would have added, respectively, 1.19 years and 0.72 years to their life expectancies during the period 2005–2007. In Curaçao, this would be 2.06 years and 2.33 years. The largest cause-specific contributions were found for circulatory diseases, breast cancer, perinatal causes, and nephritis/nephrosis (these last two causes solely in Curaçao). Conclusions. Improvements in health care services related to circulatory diseases, breast cancer, perinatal deaths, and nephritis/nephrosis in the Dutch Caribbean could substantially contribute to reducing the gap in life expectancy with the Netherlands. Based on our study, we recommend more in-depth studies to identify the specific interventions and resources needed to optimize the underlying health care areas.

scholarly journals The Ties that Bind

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 257-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Veenendaal
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Dutch Caribbean ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Public Entity

Whereas small island territories are known to face a variety of obstacles to democracy and good governance, it is largely unclear if a nonsovereign relationship with a larger metropolitan country can alleviate these challenges, and which constitutional status provides the best results in this regard. This article aims to address these questions by providing an in-depth case study of St. Eustatius, a Dutch Caribbean island that in 2010 was politically integrated into the Netherlands as a public entity or special municipality. Based on two weeks of field research consisting of nineteen in-depth interviews with a variety of respondents on the island, the article finds that the changes of 2010 have not been able to function as a remedy to the profuse governance problems on the island, while the increased Dutch involvement and dominance have resulted in widespread frustration and resentment.

New plant records for Bonaire and the Dutch Caribbean islands

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-117
Author(s):  
John A. de Freitas ◽  
Anna C. Rojer
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Dutch Caribbean

scholarly journals postkoloniale spagaat

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-217
Author(s):  
Michiel Van Kempen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New York ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Dutch Caribbean

Albert Helman, pseudonym of Surinamese Lou Lichtveld (1903-1996), was a prominent writer of the Dutch-Caribbean. Around 1960 he decided to opt for a job as a diplomat at the Netherlands embassy in Washington and the United Nations in New York. Since his native country, Suriname, was still a part of the Netherlands, it could not lead its own foreign policy. Lichtveld advised the government in Suriname, but worked along the lines of the Foreign Department of The Netherlands in The Hague. This position was extremely complicated: we see him struggling with his loyalties when he has to present the Dutch standpoint in the UN in the case of the apartheid-policy in South-Africa.

Regimes of Memory: the Case of the Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-479
Author(s):  
Pieter Emmer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Slave Resistance ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch Caribbean ◽  
Second World

The Netherlands is not known for its opposing regimes of memory. There are two exceptions to this rule: the history of the German Occupation during the Second World War and the Dutch participation in the Atlantic slave trade and slavery. The relatively low numbers of survivors of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, as well as the volume and the profitability of the Dutch slave trade and slavery, and the importance of slave resistance in abolishing slavery in the Dutch Caribbean have produced conflicting views, especially between professional historians and the descendants of slaves living in the Netherlands.

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