Dutch Caribbean Legal Portal

PHILIPSBURG--The Court of First Instance on Monday has ordered National General Insurance Corporation NV NAGICO to pay a US $33.2 million advance to Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) for damages incurred during Hurricane Irma which are covered under the airport’s insurance policy.

WILLEMSTAD - Hoofdofficier van Justitie van Curaçao, Heiko de Jong, heeft maandag 30 juli 2018 een eerste exemplaar van het Jaarverslag 2017 van het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) Curaçao aangeboden aan Minister van Justitie Quincy Girigorie.

ST. EUSTATIUS--Pension Fund Caribbean Netherlands (PCN) board members Roy Hooker and Harald Linkels held discussions last week about a number of potential investments in St. Eustatius.

Op 1 augustus 2018 treedt een nieuw procesreglement voor civiele zaken - het Procesreglement 2018 - in werking. Dit aangepaste reglement is door het bestuur van het Gemeenschappelijk Hof vastgesteld op 21 juni 2018.

WILLEMSTAD - Deze week dient de ontnemingszaak tegen Gerrit Schotte en Cicely van der Dijs (onderzoek Babel) in de rechtszaal in Willemstad, en wel op 1 en 2 augustus.

PHILIPSBURG--Suspect J.G. (42) was transported to hospital on Friday evening after suffering a massive stroke while in pre-trial detention.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados--The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) said Thursday that it has approved a US $9.3 million loan to the government of Anguilla, to implement a reform programme that aims to restore fiscal sustainability and enhance resilience against natural disasters.

WILLEMSTAD - In een op 24 juli 2018 uitgesproken vonnis heeft het Hof geoordeeld dat het niet aan de rechter, maar aan de wetgever of aan de Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten is om algemene regels te stellen over maximumtarieven voor consumentenkredieten.

PHILIPSBURG--Civil notaries can finally return to dealing with land transfers and mortgage deeds after almost a month of stagnation due to the Land and Mortgage Registry (referred to as the Kadaster in Dutch) not having a mortgage conservator in place.

PHILIPSBURG--Chief Prosecutor Jeroen Steenbrink has sent a letter to Minister of Justice Cornelius de Weever in which he expressed the Prosecutor’s Office’s concern about the ongoing strike of pro-bono lawyers and the “enormous impact” this has on criminal justice.

PHILIPSBURG - The Asset Recovery Team Sint Maarten confiscated on Thursday 26 July 2018 - during a first action - a car and continued with a housesearch at an address in Meadowlands Drive in Cul de Sac.

PHILIPSBURG--It is almost a month now that the country’s civil notaries’ ability to register property transfer and mortgage deeds has been thwarted.

PHILIPSBURG--The Judge in the Court of First Instance on Friday has ordered St. Maarten Heritage Foundation to pay St. Maarten Museum’s manager her full wages until the labour agreement has been legally terminated.

PHILIPSBURG--The pro-bono lawyers who have been on strike since May 18 due to non-payment of fees due to them will continue their strike, as talks between the Ministry of Justice and St. Maarten Bar Association Criminal Lawyers Section Chairman Cor Merx broke down last Friday.

PHILIPSBURG - A proposed law to establish the long-in-the-pipelines St. Maarten Tourism Authority (STA) foundation as an independent governing body ZBO with the ability to issue tour operator’s licences, review destination product quality control and general standards for tourism operators (and staff) in the form of licences, certification and training has drawn heavy criticism from Oyster Bay Beach Resort (OBBR).

WILLEMSTAD - Curacao’s Isla refinery is considering offers from 15 companies interested in temporarily operating the 335,000-barrel-per-day facility to replace the current operator, Venezuela’s ailing PDVSA state oil company. 

ECLI:NL:OGHACMB:2018:127 Gemeenschappelijk Hof van Justitie van Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten en van Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba, 27-06-2018, AUA2017H00056-59

WILLEMSTAD – De balie (Front Office) en de afdeling administratie (Back Office) van de vestiging Curaçao van het Hof van Justitie zijn maandag 30 juli 2018 gesloten tussen 8:00 en 12:00 uur.

KRALENDIJK - Vandaag zijn de ministers van Justitie Grapperhaus (Nederland), Bikker (Aruba), Girigorie (Curacao) en De Weever (Sint Maarten) samen gekomen voor het halfjaarlijks Justitieel Vierpartijen Overleg (JVO).

PHILIPSBURG--The Court has given Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) Operating Company N.V. and National General Insurance Corporation N.V. NAGICO one more week to settle PJIA’s post-Hurricane Irma insurance claims.