How Many Civil Servants Are There, Really? December 26, 2024 When I wrote about the number of civil servants, the quantitative feedback I...

Christmas 2024 Has Arrived December 25, 2024 Christmas is here—a religious holiday celebrated on a national level in Curaçao, where over...

How Many Civil Servants Are There? December 24, 2024 Until 2010, it was a legal requirement to publish the number of civil servants...

We Are Not Stupid: Call It What It Is December 23, 2024 For two days, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it. At a government party...

Debate versus Dialogue December 22, 2024 Today, I learned that the youth debated the Statute on December 15. For years, I’ve noticed how...

Mapping Out Government Organizations with PIOFAH Framework and McKinsey's Seven S Model December 20, 2024 Understanding and improving the...

Understanding the Organizational Structure of Government Ministries December20, 2024 Government ministries often operate within a complex...

The Public Administration as a Concern: A Structural Issue in Curaçao December 19, 2024 As I mentioned before, the public administration...

The Civil Services of Curaçao December 18, 2024 I thought it was about time I focused on one of my specialisms: the civil service...

Statute Anniversary Reflection December 17, 2024 Today, December 15, marks 70 years since the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands...

A Breach of Trust: The Exposure of Society's Most Vulnerable December 16, 2024 On December 11, 2024, the realization slowly dawned that...

Last of Lust? Or Just Forgotten? December 15, 2024 Seventy years of the Statute for the Kingdom of the Netherlands—surely worth...

December 14, 2024 This week, the Dutch government informed its citizens—and as part of the Kingdom, this includes us—to prepare for the...

Misconceptions About Public Administration: The Difference Between Opinions and Findings December 13, 2024 During a December 10, 2024,...

Survival vs. Democracy: The Struggles of the 80% December 13, 2024 For the 80% of the population surviving on 3,000 guilders or less per...

Curaçao: A Land of Poverty and Inequality December 11, 2024 According to curaçao.nu, 80% of the population in Curaçao survives on an...

From Rural Serenity to Overdevelopment: What’s Next for Jan Thiel? December 10, 2024 We moved to this area nearly thirty years ago. Back...

Is Prevention the Cure We Ignore? December 9, 2024 If you sit down in any public space, it becomes painfully clear: our population must...

December 8, 2024 As I wait for more information about the tragic explosion in The Hague that claimed lives, and while the final F1 race...

December 7, 2024: A Day After the Elections on Aruba December 7, 2024 It’s Saturday, December 7, 2024, the day after the parliamentary...