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Writing

Every column and essay in the register, newest first. Articles run from 2007; the wider record of published work runs from 1998.

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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.
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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
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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.

SOC·2026·319

The Most Expensive Questions You Never Asked

2 August 2026

The Dream Home Some of the most expensive mistakes in real estate begin with a smile. A few weeks ago, an older couple - retired and no strangers to buying

SOC·2026·318

The Dog That Became Mine

25 July 2026

It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. Perhaps that’s why, while reviewing this week’s court judgments, one case

JUS·2026·317

Justice Doesn't Forget

25 July 2026

Justice is often criticized for moving too slowly. Court cases can take years to investigate, prosecute, and finally conclude. To many, the wheels of justi