Every column and essay in the register, newest first. Articles run from 2007; the wider record of published work runs from 1998.
To mark 40 years of Status Aparte is to do more than remember a date. It is to look around, to look back, and to look ahead. To ask ourselves what we’ve bu
A personal tribute to a fellow architect of the Status Aparte - my father. I was born in 1969, the year the flames ignited in Curaçao, and the smoke drifte
Een persoonlijk eerbetoon aan een mede-grondlegger van de Status Aparte, mijn pa. Ik ben geboren in 1969, het jaar dat de vlam in de pan sloeg op Curaçao e
Back in late 2024, I warned that the shift from a 45-hour to a 40-hour workweek was not going
PRESS RELEASE - PERSBERICHT - COMMUNICADO DI PRENSA Commemorative volume 40 Years of Status Aparte The commemorative volume 40 Jaar Status Aparte: Tussen v
A new year, a new chapter - and if we do this right, a new era for Aruba’s cities. We start the year not just with resolutions, but with resolve. Because t
Happy New Year, friends. As soon as we were done lighting our fireworks in Aruba - part of our annual tradition - POTUS lit his own, and they were of a ver
It’s rare for aviation-related matters to land in administrative court in our part of the Kingdom - rarer still for it to happen twice, in summary proceedi
Not long ago, I wrote about a hearing that reminded me why this profession still matters to me after all these years. It was a case that showed how much di
This week’s column isn’t about law, public finances, or geopolitics. It’s not a policy critique or a legal explainer. It’s something more personal-and, I’d