Education has lost 27 million guilders
WILLEMSTAD - The Ministry of Education has lost 27 million guilders. Money that was reserved in 2010 for maintenance of schools. After the Schotte cabinet took office, that money was no longer used for that purpose, More...
Former Prime Minister to appear in court in August
WILLEMSTAD - The lawsuit against former Prime Minister of Curaçao Gerrit Schotte will be treated by the Court of Justice on August 1, 2 and if more time is needed on the 3rd. The Public Prosecutor (OM) wants to More...
Pre-trial former Prime Minister postponed
WILLEMSTAD - The pre-trial in the case against the former Prime Minister of Curaçao Gerrit Schotte and his life partner Cicely van der Dijs for the expropriation of illegally obtained funds has been postponed until More...
OM to reclaim funds in “Babel”
WILLEMSTAD - The Public Prosecutor‟s Office (OM) Curaçao will proceed with the process to reclaim funds from Gerrit Schotte (Curaçao, 1974) and Cicely van der Dijs (Curaçao, 1978). It concerns the recovery More...
Supreme Court is still waiting for ‘Babel’ file
THE HAGUE - Since the pronouncement of the verdict in the Babel case in appeal in July 2017, the file of Gerrit Schotte and partner Cicely van der Dijs up to and including yesterday did not arrive at the Supreme More...
MFK: “Prime Minister lied to Parliament and the people of Curaçao!”
WILLEMSTAD - During a televised press conference, the opposition party MFK and its leader former Prime Minister of Curaçao Gerrit Schotte accused the current Premier Eugene Rhuggenaath of lying to parliament and More...
Schotte wants referendum on same sex marriage
WILLEMSTAD - Gerrit Schotte thinks that the government Rhuggenaath secretly wants to introduce gay marriage. In an amendment to the law of succession, cohabitants are equated with married couples. Also cohabitants More...
Curaçao’s 7th anniversary as an autonomous country in the Kingdom; is there really something to celebrate?
WILLEMSTAD - Since 10 October 2010, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has consisted of four countries: the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten. The Netherlands Antilles has been dissolved and its constituent More...
Parliament’s attendance list to become public
WILLEMSTAD - President of Parliament William Millerson says that there is not much he can do about the high absenteeism during the parliamentary meetings. Since the start of the new parliament, this has been an More...
Schotte: OM has to prosecute McWilliam
WILLEMSTAD - Member of Parliament for MAN, Giselle McWilliam should be prosecuted. This is according to Gerrit Schotte MP. The MAN MP has made herself guilty of slander, said Schotte. Immediately after the violent More...
