Appointments Joint Court of Appeal

The Council of Ministers for the Kingdom has agreed today to nominate C.F. Mewe (43) and J. Röben (62) for appointment as respectively member and ad interim member of the Joint Court of Appeal of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.

Lai Promes new registrar of Parliament

Desiree Lai-Promes (45) was elected by Parliament as the new registrar of the national parliament. Lai Promes was appointed as substitute-registrar in February of 2006 and was the official registrar since August.

Letter Underminister

Here you can read copy of the complete letter of the Dutch State Secretary, Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, in charge of Kingdom relations, recently sent to the Dutch Parliament in relation to the debt of the Netherlands Antilles and the settlement thereof by the Netherlands.

Council approves the concepts of the consensus-statute laws

The Island Council has approved the concepts consensus-statute laws Financial Supervision and Police Curaçao, St. Maarten, and Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba in a debate that lasted for hours and gives a look ahead at the coming campaign on the way to the referendum to be held on the political future of Curacao.

On the way to the Land Curacao

For more than a year the island of Curacao, now part of the Netherlands Antilles, is preparing itself for an autonomous status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In the weeks to come the government of the Netherlands Antilles will be informing the public on the relevant agreements between the partners in the Kingdom on this issue and the underlying reasons to enter into such agreements. Because soon (expected already in April 2009) a referendum will be held. This first information page is an introduction of the Kingdom agreements on the constitutional future of Curaçao.

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For more information on the referendum, also read our news on the presentation of two Harvard law students on this subject (www.curacaolegalportal.com).

Financial restructuring of Land has started

The Dutch State Secretary Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (Kingdom Relations, CDA) has ordered the start of the Antillean financial restructuring scheme. The ministry of Homeland Affairs and Kingdom Relations has meanwhile ordered to deposit 98.4 million guilders in an account of the Bank of the Netherlands Antilles (BNA).