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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
322
since 2007
Languages
4
en · nl · pap · es
Writing
1998
first book

Latest

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A quiet residential street in Aruba in bright daylight, lined with low white villas, red-tiled roofs and palms. In the foreground a modern streetlight pole doubles as a cellular small cell, with a white cylindrical antenna at the top and a small equipment cabinet at its base, with the article title The Cell Tower You May Never Notice set over the frame at upper left
ECO·2026·322

The Cell Tower You May Never Notice

22 August 2026

Improving coverage once meant building a tower, and people wanted the tower. Today the cell tower is becoming a streetlight — and the argument about infrastructure has changed with it.

The audience at the Santa Teresita Center in San Nicolas, every seat taken, facing a large screen showing the title slide of the Forum on the Future of San Nicolas research findings session, with the article title Five Years of Listening to San Nicolas set over the frame at upper left
ECO·2026·321

Five Years of Listening to San Nicolas

15 August 2026

Suzette Dumfries spent five years researching San Nicolas and presented the findings to a sold-out Santa Teresita. Somewhere between Isaac Wagenmakerstraat and that room, the research became personal.

The entrance of the Kas di Korte courthouse in Curaçao, its name in white letters on the canopy above the doors, with clouds reflected in the glass facade
GOV·2026·320

When Policy Meets the Rule of Law

9 August 2026

A Curacao judgment over a healthcare reimbursement code becomes a lesson in the limits of public power and the rule of law.

Dossiers

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

ECOEconomy and tourismAVIAviation and aircraft financeCORCorporate, tax and financial regulationJUSJustice, courts and the legal professionSOCSociety and personal reflectionGOVGovernance and public administrationLABLabour and employmentKGDAruba and the KingdomENVEnvironment and public health