Dossiers
Nine standing dossiers. Each holds its thread of writing in chronological order, oldest first, so an argument can be read as it developed. A dossier is not a tag archive.
- ECO
Economy and tourism
Aruba's economy is one industry deep. Tourism pays for the state, and the arguments about how much of it, at what cost, and to whose benefit run underneath almost everything else here.
- AVI
Aviation and aircraft finance
A jurisdiction of a hundred thousand people running an international aircraft register. Repossession, the Cape Town Convention, registration and deregistration — and what makes a registry worth choosing in the first place.
- COR
Corporate, tax and financial regulation
Companies, tax and the rules that govern money moving through Aruba. Much of it is technical. All of it decides who can build something here and on what terms.
- JUS
Justice, courts and the legal profession
What the courts actually decided, as distinct from what was reported. Judgments, procedure, and the condition of the profession itself.
- SOC
Society and personal reflection
Not every column is about the law. Some are about the island, the people in it, and occasionally about me.
- GOV
Governance and public administration
How the state is run: appointments, procurement, state-owned companies, and the distance between what the rules require and what is done.
- LAB
Labour and employment
Employment law is where most people meet the legal system. Minimum wage, dismissal, the length of the working week — the rules that touch the largest number of lives.
- KGD
Aruba and the Kingdom
Aruba is a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. That arrangement is forty years old, unfinished, and argued about continuously.
- ENV
Environment and public health
Sewage, landfill, water, coastline. The recurring subject is not that the rules are missing. It is what happens when they exist and are not enforced.