Anthony Jamanika (March 8, 1958) is from Bandabou, where he attended St. Janschool. After completing L.T.S. and mavo, he started working at the Department of Education and Culture in 1979. In 1978, he founded Arte ProBa (Arte Teatral Pro Banda Bow) to bring theater to life in Bandabou. It started by preparing children to participate in carnival. Together with Prins Ku Pancho, he formed a group in Bandabou. The play Frakaso di un hóben desobesedidu premiered in St. Jan and was performed in community centers across the island for five years.

In 1977, Jamanika started studying music (under the guidance of Ms. Tresfon) at the Music School in Emmastad and decided to open a music school in Bandabou, which he successfully did in San Pedro. He also ensured that a ballet school was opened in Bandabou, where Lucia Schnog came to teach.

Because there was little artistic development in Bandabou, he also organized basic courses taught by drama teacher Laura Quast and theater maker Gibi Bacilio. In 1983, a large-scale Mother's Day show directed by Jamanika took place at Centro Pro Arte.

Jamanika creates theater inspired by what society presents to him: Bo lenga ta skèrpi. To distinguish himself from a role model like Eligio Melfor, he struck a different balance between humor (60%) and drama (40%) in his plays. He also created performances around a theme to engage the audience in discussion after the show.

In 1987, with the comeback craze happening, he created a play with live bands on stage, Biriñea den comeback. He also staged plays in prison. In 1989, he produced the musical Atami riba dje (with a live performance by Doble R). He won a prize at a theater festival in Aruba.

In 1996, Jamanika entered the television world to create TV dramas, after having done a trial run with the national broadcaster TeleCuraçao (where Stella Oosterhof was the director at the time). He began with a channel for pay TV via cable (TDS). Druusje Jansen wrote Fiorina featuring popular singers like Boy Thodé. Sometimes, a successful theater production was adapted for TV: Hende sa para bira kachó (as a play in 1993, as a TV production in 1998).

In 2001, he started his own channel, TV Kanal Elouisa (named after his grandmother). He is currently working on developing an infrastructure for six channels in Papiamentu, covering cartoons, documentaries, news, music, religious themes, and drama.

Due to the success of his plays and the involvement of people from all over Curaçao in Arte ProBa, Jamanika has grown from being a theater maker for and from Bandabou to a television channel owner for all of Curaçao.

Since 1995, Mr. Jamanika has been working with AT& TPS (Antillean Theatre & TV Program Supply N.V.), a production company focused on producing local soap operas, music videos, and other content. This production company also initiated pay-per-view services via the Television Distribution System (TDS). On July 1, 2002, Mr. Jamanika founded Elouisa Entertainment Network N.V. This marked the separation between production and commercialization. AT& TPS handled production, while Elouisa Entertainment was responsible for commercialization, initially via TDS. Ten years after its founding, Elouisa is now available to subscribers on channel 85 of TDS, broadcasting soap operas, comedies, musicals, documentaries, and more, in Papiamentu, 24 hours a day!

Another initiative to solidify the Elouisa Group was achieved in March 2010, when a license was obtained from the Ministry of Traffic and Transport to establish a closed-circuit television channel. Preparations are currently underway for the launch of Elouisa Terrestrial Network N.V.