The Innovations Bureau is part of the Department of Education. Head of the Department is Mr. Hemmie van Xanten.

 

Mr. van Xanten has worked on Saba as Dutch teacher and principal of the Sacred Heart School from 1991 until 2000. He then left with his family and settled in Malaysia and Brunei, working for international schools.

 

In September 2008 Hemmie returned to Saba in the function of Department Head. As he says in our TV program Saba Schools' Magazine: "I am delighted to be back!"