Dutch Caribbean Legal Portal

WILLEMSTAD – The Curaçao law firm Legal FCW is mentioned in the so-called Panama Papers. But according to FCW lawyers Glenn Camelia and Wilfred Flocker there is nothing illegal.

ORANJESTAD — De economische noodtoestand in Venezuela is uitgeroepen, maar op Aruba is de noodklok voor eventuele grote stromen vluchtelingen tot op heden niet geluid.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- The mayor of Chacao in Venezuela’s capital Caracas has warned that Caribbean islands and Colombia may suffer an influx of refugees from Venezuela if food shortages continue in the country.

WILLEMSTAD — Financiën-minister José Jardim (namens onafhankelijk Statenlid Glenn Sulvaran) heeft een nieuwe belastingwet naar de Staten gestuurd.

WILLEMSTAD — In opdracht van het Openbaar Ministerie is vanochtend de vrouw S.M. aangehouden, in verband met de fatale roof op Franscico ‘Franky Stul’ Ignacia (74) op 20 december vorig jaar bij Blue Bay.

ANGUILLA--National Bank of Anguilla’s Private Banking and Trust (PBT) clients are up in arms over news that their deposits dating back to 2013 are in limbo and will not be returned to them.

PHILIPSBURG--The desire of authorities to establish a website via which exotic dancers and prostitution workers can signal their wish to ply their trade in St. Maarten as opposed to them applying directly to adult clubs, has prompted attorney Jairo Bloem to say that it seems that government wants to get into the prostitution business.

PHILIPSBURG - President of American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Howard Nusbaum said Monday ahead of an Interval International seminar at the Westin Resort that with tourism being the economic driver that it is, his association has a greater responsibility to ensure timeshare consumers have a good experience.

PHILIPSBURG--Acting Secretary-General of Justice Udo Aron is under investigation by the National Detectives (Landsrecherche) for abusing his power by entering the island on May 5 with a woman who did not have the necessary documents to clear Immigration at Princess Juliana International Airport SXM.

WILLEMSTAD - Er is niets illegaals met de offshore sector, de branche is afhankelijk van structuren die via Curaçao en via andere jurisdicties lopen.

THE HAGUE--The Kingdom Council of Ministers has approved the appointment of Henk Lubberdink and Joop Drop as new Acting Judges in the Joint Court of Aruba, Curaçao, St. Maarten, and of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba.

ORANJESTAD - Aruba and Venezuelan PDVSA's refining unit Citgo Petroleum reached a deal to lease and restart an idled 235,000-barrel-per-day refinery.

THE NETHERLANDS - Voor het eerst heeft een taxateur van de Belastingdienst een tuchtrechtelijke veroordeling opgelopen.

CARACAS -Halliburton Company has joined rival Schlumberger Ltd. in curbing activity in Venezuela due to lack of payment during the oil industry’s worst financial crisis.

THE HAGUE--A social minimum tied to the legal minimum wage, potentially more exemptions to the general spending tax ABB, concrete incentives to stimulate investments and employment in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba, and a more direct role of the National Government Representative.

THE HAGUE--Possibly the expectations were too high when Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba became part of the Netherlands in October 2010, but that is not the focus of Dutch Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk.

PHILIPSBURG - Although Judge Katja Mans urged adult clubs, Government and the Prosecutor’s Office to sit around the table to work on an interim compromise concerning the issuing of work permits for exotic dancers, parties hadn’t reached an agreement up to Thursday, one day ahead of today’s deadline for an agreement.

PHILIPSBURG-- Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard (DCCG) reportedly sacked Adjunct Head of the Coast Guard St. Maarten (Hoofd Operaties/Hoofd Steunpunt Sint Maarten) Wendell Thodé in April.

ORANJESTAD — MEP-leider Evelyn Wever-Croes benadrukt dat zij niet genoemd wordt in de Panama Papers. Haar voormalige werkgever, advocatenkantoor Croes Wever Tchong, wel, maar slechts als intermediair voor een tweetal bedrijven die in Panama geregistreerd staan.

WILLEMSTAD — De Staten moeten nog twee weken geduld hebben voor er meer duidelijkheid komt over de bevindingen van het onderzoek dat overheidsaccountant Soab doet naar het Curaçaohuis.