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: 323; since 2007
Languages: 4; en · nl · pap · es
Writing: 1998; first book

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A modern concrete-and-glass building under construction on an Aruban clifftop above the sea, with a stack of grey cinder blocks in the foreground. Set into the sky at left, the title Aruba's New Building Regime, and beneath a gold rule the words In Force. But Not Yet Finished.

GOV·2026·323

Aruba's New Building Regime: In Force, But Not Yet Finished

29 August 2026

Aruba's 2022 building ordinance gave government enforcement powers, but the rules telling citizens where they stand are still missing.

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.

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