Parliament adopts 8 out of 21 motions
WILLEMSTAD - In Parliament, 21 motions have been filed during the last day of the debate on the budget for 2019. Only eight of these motions were adopted. The thirteen other motions - from the opposition - did not More...
Parliament allocates quarter million guilders for social objectives
WILLEMSTAD - By means of an amendment, the Parliament of Curaçao have allocated 250,000 guilders of their own budget for 2019 for the Parliament to make them available for social objectives. It is an initiative More...
President of Parliament: “Conviction Schotte bad publicity for politics”
WILLEMSTAD - President of Parliament William Millerson thinks Schotte's verdict is not the best advertisement for politics. He says so in response to the ruling of the Supreme Court. The Court sees no reasons to More...
Doing Nothing Corporation
Despite the fact that more and more companies are forced to cut back on their staff, the aforementioned club seems to increasingly enjoy the interest of local politicians. One is abroad for some singing performances, More...
CFT asks about salary cut of St. Maarten politicians
THE HAGUE - The Committee for Financial Supervision CFT wants to know when the St. Maarten government intends to carry out the earlier promise to cut the salaries of ministers and members of Parliament by ten per More...
Jan Paternotte new chairman Kingdom Relations Committee
THE HAGUE - Jan Paternotte of the Democratic Party D66 is the new Chairman of the Permanent Committee for Kingdom Relations of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament. Paternotte (34), who was unanimously elected More...
Central Trade Union: ‘Not all trade unions want to cooperate’
WILLEMSTAD - The joint trade unions organized a conference for tomorrow evening to get everyone looking in the same direction. According to trade union leader Edward St Jacobs of the SSK, the Sentral Sindikal di More...
Dos Santos MP tops absentee list
WILLEMSTAD - Amparo Dos Santos is the most absent Member of Parliament in the third quarter. Again, because since the election, he is at the top of the absentee list every quarter. Of the nine meetings, the faction More...
Melvin Cijntje resigns from the Pubelo Soberano party
WILLEMSTAD - Melvin Cijntje says goodbye to Pueblo Soberano. The former Member of Parliament believes that it unacceptable that the party appointed Ben Whiteman as party leader without first calling all members More...
The Netherlands looks away, and the Venezuelan refugee is the victim
THE HAGUE, WILLEMSTAD - People in need are the victims of a political conflict between the Netherlands and Curaçao, according to Irene Broekhuijse, assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam. The Netherlands More...
