This is simply not true, where do you get that information?

I spent 1.5 years on Bonaire while at school there and I can tell you, Curacao voted to separate from Holland like Aruba and Bonaire wanted to stay along with SABA.

Please show us the recent article that this has changed.

This in itself has nothing to do with CMU, I'm not defending them, but I would like to post whats true.

BBCCaribbean.com | Antilles break-up closer

Netherlands Antilles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SO has this changed? is Curacao now staying with Holland? I see nothing that says they are.

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As a student on Value MD not attending one of the Covenanted schools there is no pleasure in posting anymore.

In 2008 there will be no Netherland Antilles. Nothing has changed. The Curacao will become a seperate country like Aruba.

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Radek Lewkowski

Caribbean Medical University
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Aruba is not its own country. Although the official term for it is a 'constituent country', it functions more or less as a state of the Netherlands. In many areas of government, including education, it is autonomous, but it is not at all independent of the Netherlands. Curacao has voted to go this same route ('status aparte'), as has Sint Maarten. Bonaire, Saba and Statia, on the other hand, will have closer ties to the Netherlands than they do now and will exist as Dutch municipalities (like a town or city in the US).

No one knows yet exactly how it will all work, but my point in mentioning all this is that what this says to me is that, like Aruba, Curacao would have the right to grant a charter. Whether or not they will is a different matter of course. Slightly off-topic, but I would think schools on Bonaire, Saba and Statia may be at risk in terms of having to conform to Dutch standards...