Cft: significant deterioration finances in third-quarter
WILLEMSTAD - The Board of Financial Supervision (Cft) announced in a letter to Minister of Finance Kenneth Gijsbertha that the financial situation of Curaçao in the third quarter has deteriorated considerably. The More...
Every year, a quarter (25%) of the available budget of households in Curaçao is spent on the house
Central Bureau of Statistics presents results from Budget Research 2016 WILLEMSTAD - The Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) publishes the basic results from the budget research that was carried out in 2016. The More...
School boards have been struggling for years
WILLEMSTAD - In 2011 the Government Accountants Bureau (SOAB) produced a report stating that all school boards on the island are struggling to meet their financial obligations. The school boards - the Association More...
Protestant Schools are fed up with current situation
WILLEMSTAD - The Protestant Christian Education Association (VPCO) is now really fed up with the current situation of their schools. Tuesday morning, the board, management and teachers went to Fort Amsterdam to More...
Curacao government wants more responsibility for public finances
WILLEMSTAD - The Curacao government wants more responsibility when it comes to public finances, but does not dare to go so far as to say that it wants to get rid of the possibility given in the Kingdom Act to receive More...
VPCO: Schools can no longer pay their expenses
WILLEMSTAD - Schools can no longer pay their expenses. The Association for Protestant Christian Education (VPCO) writes this in an urgent letter addressed to the government. There is no more investment in education More...
Cft: About time that Curaçao addresses sustainable public finance
Newly-made agreements government and Cft have to turn the situation around WILLEMSTAD - Considerable effort has been made to balance the 2018 budget, however the multi-year budgetary problem of Curaçao still is More...
Half of budget health care goes to medicines, specialists, laboratories and international medical services
WILLEMSTAD - Half of the healthcare budget in Curaçao is allocated for medicines, specialists, laboratories and international medical services meaning when a patient goes abroad for healthcare. 20 cents of each More...
No extra money for cleaning schools
WILLEMSTAD - There are no extra funds for the cleaning of public schools. This can be deducted from the words of the Minister of Education Marilyn Alcala-Wallé. Teachers and parents complained recently that the More...
CFT criticizes Curaçao for poor communication; Minister disagrees
WILLEMSTAD - The criticism from the Council for Financial Supervision (CFT) that the communication between Curacao and the CFT is bad was denied by the Minister of Finance Kenneth Gijsbertha. But Gijsbertha does More...
