LDG·REGISTER·SINCE 1998

I have written about Aruban law since 1998, first in books for practitioners. In 2007 I started doing it in public.

On the courts, the economy, the coastline and the aircraft register. In four languages. Best read in order.

Books: 15; since 1998
Articles: 327; since 2007
Languages: 4; en · nl · pap · es
Writing: 1998; first book

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Aruba's arid interior at golden hour: a wind-bent divi-divi tree and tall cactus among red-brown rock and dry scrub, with deep off-road tyre tracks gouged through the foreground leading toward a distant turquoise coastline

ENV·2026·327

Aruba Had a Plan for Nature. What Happened to It?

13 September 2026

In October 2024 the Council of Ministers approved Aruba's biodiversity strategy through 2030. It phases out UTVs and puts nature first. So what changed?

A banner split on a diagonal: on the pale left half a contour map of Aruba under the word ROPV in aloe, on the dark right half the word POLICE over the blue light bar of a police vehicle at night.

GOV·2026·326

The Police and Our Nature: Looking Away Is Not a Free Choice

9 September 2026

Driving a quad or UTV through a nature area is an offense, and the police already hold the power to stop it. Criminal enforcement waits for no minister.

A folded ROPV Ruimtelijk Ontwikkelingsplan met Voorschriften map, its Natuur zone shaded green, held up in front of the dunes and the California Lighthouse. Over the sky at the left, beneath the mono line Lincoln Gomez columns analysis perspective and an aloe rule, the title Why the dunes at the lighthouse are not up for a quick decision.

GOV·2026·325

Why the dunes at the lighthouse are not up for a quick decision

8 September 2026

The green area behind the California Lighthouse is zoned as nature in the ROPV, and that plan binds the government as much as anyone else until July 2029.

Dossiers

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Each dossier is a standing thread, read oldest first, so an argument develops instead of arriving backwards.

ECOEconomy and tourism AVIAviation and aircraft finance CORCorporate, tax and financial regulation JUSJustice, courts and the legal profession SOCSociety and personal reflection GOVGovernance and public administration LABLabour and employment KGDAruba and the Kingdom ENVEnvironment and public health