On the courts, the economy, the coastline and the aircraft register. In four languages. Best read in order.
De Iberosol-uitspraak legt een bevoegdheidsprobleem bloot: een portefeuille kan politiek worden verplaatst, maar een wettelijke bevoegdheid verhuist niet automatisch mee. Waar is het landsbesluit van artikel 2a, derde lid?
A court may condemn fraud. But before it decides that political actors deceived a system, it must understand how that system actually worked. What, exactly, was the rule?
The Court of First Instance did not approve a hotel. It told the government that if it wants to say no, it must do so under the law.
Aruba's handhavingsverzoek lets citizens and organisations formally ask government to enforce the law — and the deadlines that make it work.
Horacio Oduber Hospital is taking the Government of Aruba to court over Afl. 29 million in care for the uninsured. Good governance means letting a judge decide.
An Aruba court ruling on e-step and e-bike rentals shows that commercial labels do not determine legal obligations.
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?
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.
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.
Each dossier is a standing thread, read oldest first, so an argument develops instead of arriving backwards.