Presumably oil and gas in Curacao territorial waters
WILLEMSTAD - According to outgoing Prime Minister Daniel Hodge there is most likely oil and gas in the Curaçao territorial waters. Hodge said this during the public meeting this morning in Parliament. The Prime More...
Pensioners are protesting once more
WILLEMSTAD - Curacao pensioners have taken the street of downtown Willemstad again to protest the austerity measures taken by the Transitional Government. This morning a large group went to Fort Amsterdam to More...
Amsterdam and Curacao continue working together
WILLEMSTAD, THE HAGUE - The Prime Minister of Curaçao Mr. Hodge and the mayor of Amsterdam, Mr Van der Laan signed a cooperation agreement in the field of heritage, health , work and training, integrity policy More...
Unions representing government employees would like to freeze salaries
WILLEMSTAD – Unions representing civil servants have decided during their CGOA joint consultation that the salaries for all government employees should be frozen for two years. The indexing and holiday allowance More...
Hodge viewed documents indicating oil and gas sites
WILLEMSTAD - Outgoing Prime Minister Daniel Hodge recently paid a visit to the National Archives to personally look at documents and maps supposedly containing information about where the deposits of oil and gas More...
SOAW: 5.426 on welfare. ‘this must be reduced’
WILLEMSTAD – The Ministry of Social Development, Labor and Welfare (SOAW), in accordance with the new approach starting in the month of May, has as objective to clean up the list of people on welfare. Some of More...
Demonstration against Sales tax plans
WILLEMSTAD – Several hundred people protested yesterday morning against the government’s plans to raise the six percent sales tax on certain products to nine percent. Parliament met yesterday about these plans. More...
Pensioners: “No more measures please!”
WILLEMSTAD – About 400 pensioners gathered today in front of the Parliament building to protest the series of new measures the government will take to tackle the deplorable public finances of Curacao. Today, members More...
Property owners will pay more tax starting January 2014
WILLEMSTAD – The Curacao Parliament approved a new law on real estate tax during yesterday public meeting. Minister of Finance Dr. Jose Jardim explained what this new law entails. This new law will be introduced More...
Parliament approves new Law on Real Estate
WILLEMSTAD – Parliament has approved the bill on Real Estate with 11 votes in favor and 10 votes against. This Law on Real Estates entails the increase of taxes on certain real estate properties with a value of More...
