Due to the flooding in Surinam, Radio Netherlands has added some extra shortwave transmissions relaying Radio Boskopoe, a local public radio station in Totness, the capital of the Coronie district, that normally broadcasts on FM. With the addition of shortwave frequencies, Radio Boskopoe can reach the entire country. Programmes are in Dutch and Sranan Tongo.
1359-1500 UTC Bonaire 15540 kHz 133 degrees
2059-2157 UTC Bonaire 15540 kHz 133 degrees
1015-1045 UTC Bonaire 6020 kHz 110 degrees (an extension of the regular
0930-1015 UTC transmission to the Caribbean).
Makeover on Bonaire
The Radio Netherlands relay station on Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles is almost 40 years old. The existing shortwave transmitters have been in service since the station opened, and are overdue for replacement. The Board of Governors of Radio Netherlands recently approved an investment of some four million euros in the station, which delivers shortwave broadcasts to the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.