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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
324
since 2007
Languages
4
en · nl · pap · es
Writing
1998
first book

Latest

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A 1975 Aruba foongids telephone directory lying beside a black rotary dial telephone on a wooden table, with a handwritten card reading 3699 Gomez. Set into the dark left side, the title 3699 and beneath an aloe rule the words A four-digit number, a 1975 foongids, and a name that was already home.
SOC·2026·324

3699

5 September 2026

A 1975 Aruba telephone directory in the National Archives turns four remembered digits into a time capsule of family, business and a country before Status Aparte.

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.

Dossiers

All nine →

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