Published On: Tue, Dec 4th, 2012

First gay marriage in Dutch Caribbean

THE BOTTOM, Saba – An Aruban man of 26 years married a 27-year-old Venezuelan. The couple lives in Aruba, but it is still not possible for them to marry there. Therefore, the two went to Saba.

Saba is like Bonaire and Sint Eustatius, a special municipality of the Netherlands since October 10, 2010. Recently, the Dutch marriage legislation went in force on the three islands. In Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, it is not possible for people of the same sex to marry. However, such a marriage will be credited in the civil registry if it took place in either the three islands, the Netherlands or anywhere else its legal.

“This great news is worthy of congratulations,” responds COC Netherlands president Tanja Ineke. “For the authorities on Saba, whose cooperative attitude around the opening of the marriage, is a pioneering role in the region.”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000106797310 Wade Bailey

    A pioneering role regionally? Your feigned naivete is disgusting! The Caribbean will eventually see Gay Marriage enacted as law simply as a result of the continued threat of development aid no longer being extended to non cooperating governments. Saba cannot afford to buck the Western trend on this issue. by subverting the culture of a people the West has only complicated matters and will cause unwanted suffering. The most pressing needs of our people are educational,economic, and social Gay Marriage never was an issue in the caribbean until it was foisted on us by liberal democratic regimes out of North America and Europe. If you call developments linked to the withholding of development funds pioneering you are a bigger fool than I gave you credit for.