The case of the refinery
WILLEMSTAD - The hundred-year-old oil refinery in Curaҫao is one of the most complex cases in terms of its corporate governance, relationship with the public, and its NGO status. The plant is owned by the state-owned More...
Strategy
A strategy is a plan of action to achieve a set of objectives. Although the term reminds us of warfare, we can also consider business a type of war, as the failure to have a strategy in place might lead to the loss More...
Happy New Year 2018
WILLEMSTAD - It is the season of End of the Year and New Year parties and reception. At this time, many organizations reflect on the past year and set goals for the new year ahead. However, many think that this More...
Corporate Governance
WILLEMSTAD - The latest case of corporate governance is the fact that the Minister of Finance of Curacao (Kenneth Gijsbertha) has written a letter on December 13, 2017, to the CEO of the state-owned utility company More...
Uprising Venezuela has consequences for Curaçao
WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao is keeping a watchful eye on what is going on in neighboring Venezuela. The country is the third largest trading partner of the island, after the Netherlands and the U.S. “The immediate consequences More...
More than 4 thousand in compensation for Goede
WILLEMSTAD - The University of Curaçao (UoC) must pay a substantial compensation to the former rector Miguel Goede. More than 420 thousand guilders. The Court of Appeal also ruled in favor of the former rector. More...
Good governance in the Caribbean SIDS
During a Master Class Corporate Governance, a participant asked me: how does the governance of Curacao compare to the other Caribbean islands? How can we compare them? Is there a universal system to compare them? Before More...
Goede should have approached LAR-judge
WILLEMSTAD — The court ruled in a provisional judgment on Tuesday that the Court in First Instance was not authorized to give a judgment on the dismissal of former rector Miguel Goede at the University of the More...
