Antillean data bank to be scrapped

Tuesday 11 November 2008

A controversial plan to set up a data bank with information on young Antillean and Aruban trouble-makers has been scrapped, integration minister Ella Vogelaar said on Monday.

The announcement came on the first day of her visit to the Dutch Caribbean islands of Curacao and Bonaire.

The minister's plan provoked fierce condemnation from the parliaments of both islands, reports Tuesday's Volkskrant. Vogelaar told the paper that she had also taken note of objections from the Antillean community in the Netherlands.

However, scrapping plans for the data bank does not mean the Dutch government will not be pushing ahead with more general proposals to register the ethnicity of all young trouble-makers.

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