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CODE ORANGE: ...TROPICAL STORM WATCH, TROPICAL STORM BRET HAS ENTERED THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN REGION AND IS APPROACHING OUR ISLAND LATER TODAY... Weather: This morning through midday: Partly cloudy with...
View ArticleAdvisory Board in Annual Report 2016: “Rule of Law is the foundation of...
WILLEMSTAD - With 63 requests for advice, 13 more than the year before, 2016 was again a productive year for the Advisory Board (Raad van Advies). The Board issued 54 opinions in that year. Nine...
View ArticleDeparting Cft Chairman Age Bakker: “New Curaçao government may combine...
WILLEMSTAD - During its visit to Curaçao, the Board of financial supervision for Curaçao and Sint Maarten (Cft) indicated that the new government is facing the challenge of having to combine budgetary...
View ArticleSuspicion of unjustified appointments during Cabinet-Pisas
WILLEMSTAD - The Minister of Government, Planning and Services, Armin Konket, has suspicions of appointments that did not comply with the rules during the term of the interim Cabinet Pisas. According...
View ArticleAll decisions former government investigated
WILLEMSTAD - The current government will not only investigate appointments made by the former government headed by Prime Minister Gilmar Pisas but also all the decisions made by their minister. This is...
View ArticleRevenue sale hospital building could be solution for debts
WILLEMSTAD - The proceeds from the sale of the building and SEHOS properties may potentially solve the debt problem of the hospital. Minister Suzy Camelia-Römer of Health, Environment and Nature is...
View ArticleUSA Dept. of State: “Look at role of government officials in illegal sex...
WILLEMSTAD - Another important note on the Human Trafficking Report which was recently released by the U.S. Department of State is that U.S. considers that the Government of Curaçao must conduct an...
View ArticleGovernment of Curaçao monitoring the situation in Venezuela
WILLEMSTAD - For some time now there have been indications that there could be a civil war in the South American country of Venezuela. Several resistance groups from inside the country have been...
View ArticleTrinidad Minister fired for second time — this time just 48 hours after...
Marlene McDonald is likely now the shortest-serving minister in Trinidad’s history. PORT OF SPAIN - Before even getting the chance to take her seat in Dr Keith Rowley’s Cabinet, after getting a second...
View Article27,000 drivers still have to pay vehicle tax
WILLEMSTAD - 27 thousand motorists still have to pay their vehicle tax for the year 2017. They still have until August 1, to do this. After this date, the police will start with their checkpoints and...
View ArticleSpecial education wants equal treatment
WILLEMSTAD - The government's subsidy for special education is low. So low that schools cannot provide a good education. That says the board of Protestant schools, the VPCO. They also feel...
View ArticleSchotte: “50 days of this government and what has changed in Curaçao?”
WILLEMSTAD - “50 days of Cabinet Rhuggenaath and what has changed in Curaçao?” asked the leader of the opposition party MFK, Gerrit Schotte in a press release. According to Schotte the economy is...
View ArticlePrime Minister: “Negotiations with Chinese State Company continues”
WILLEMSTAD - According to Prime Minister Eugene Rhuggenaath, the negotiating parties have failed to reach an agreement on an addendum with amendments to the Heads of Agreement that was signed between...
View ArticleDoubts about location new theater
WILLEMSTAD - Architect Dennis Klaus has doubts about the new location of the theater. He welcomes the move to the inner city but wonders where all those people who will visit the new theater will have...
View ArticleSpecial team against illegal dumping
WILLEMSTAD - The government wants to put an end to illegal waste dumping, the disposal of chemical waste and the Illegal excavations of land. A special team of the Ministries of Health and Justice...
View ArticleKonket: “Supreme Electoral Council to become independent”
WILLEMSTAD - The Minister of Government Policy, Planning and Service (BPD), Armin Konket has announced the initiation of the project to make the Supreme Electoral Council (SEC) and independent...
View ArticleMinisterial consultation Urgency Program
WILLEMSTAD - Officials from various ministries discussed last Friday about the content of the Urgent Program. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministries of Social Development, Labor...
View ArticleSOAB to investigate RdK and MDPT
WILLEMSTAD - The Government Accountants Bureau (SOAB) will address the alleged irregularities at the public company Refineria di Korsou (Curaçao Refinery) and the Multi-Disciplinary Project Team...
View ArticleDrop-out committee at work
WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao has a drop-out committee, which has to ensure that everyone who falls under the compulsory education law is also really going to school. The committee includes representatives of...
View ArticleFuture InselAir depends on availability of its fleet
WILLEMSTAD - It is still unclear whether InselAir can repay the emergency credit of the Government of Curaçao. A special committee looking at the prospects of the embattled airline cannot explain the...
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