The first inhabitants probably migrated from Venezuela around 2500 BC
1986
EDUCATION
PAPIAMENTU INTRODUCED INTO SCHOOL
In 1983 a new office called ”Sede di Papiamentu” (SdP 1983 -1998) was founded in Curaçao. It provided retraining to primary school teachers and it was tasked to develop a provisional language teaching method called “Papiamentu nos Idioma” (Papiamentu Our Language). As a result, Papiamentu was introduced as a compulsory subject, to be taught for 30 minutes a day across all primary classes in the educational school system, in 1986.