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

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A sunny Oranjestad street lined with pastel Dutch-Caribbean colonial buildings and palms, with a row of electric rental scooters and e-bikes parked at a docking point in the foreground

JUS·2026·328

Enforcing the Rules: Aruba Court Rules on E-Step and E-Bike Rentals

16 September 2026

An Aruba court ruling on e-step and e-bike rentals shows that commercial labels do not determine legal obligations.

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.

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