Dividing Lines: Health and Inequality   20 September 2025   When we speak of dividing lines, health is one of the most striking. Some...

Another Divider: Class   19 September 2025   Another powerful divider in society is class: the upper classes or capitalists, the middle...

Connect and Divide: Borders and Migration in Curaçao   18 September 2025   Borders—often marked by a flag—are powerful dividers. They...

Connect and Divide: Democracy Under Pressure   16 September 2025   Around the world, democracy faces mounting pressure, and recent events...

Black or White: The Death of Nuance   16 September 2025   Shades of grey are disappearing. On my way home from a meeting about the Future...

Connect and Divide: Democracy Under Pressure   16 September 2025   Around the world, democracy faces mounting pressure, and recent events...

Curaçao’s Public Finances and the Paradox of a Growing Bureaucracy 14 September 2025 The Board for Financial Supervision (Cft) recently...

Between Façade and Reality: A Critical Reading of the SER Annual Report 2024   12 September 2025     The Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER)...

Generations as Dividers   13 September 2025   Another powerful divider in society is the generation gap. A generational gap has existed...

Public Annual Report of the VDC: But Why? 12 September 2025   Recently, I read the 2024 annual report of the Curaçao Security Service...

Politics: From Noble Art to Divider   11 september 2025   One of the greatest disconnectors and dividers today is politics. It wasn’t...

The Great Illusion of Connection   10 September 2025   We live in an era of smartphones and social media. Perhaps the most incredible...

Curaçao and the AI Hype: Façades or Future?   9 September 2025   On Saturday, 6 September 2025, with the help of AI, I read...

Sports and Festivals Connect: The Blue Wave   8 September 2025   It is Friday, September 5, 2025. In a few hours, the Curaçao national...

Infrastructure Connects Us   7 September 2025   Infrastructure and utilities form the hardware of connection. They are so present, so...

Why Curaçao’s future depends on healing emotions, not self-interest   6 September 2025   We often ask: what really connects people? Most...

Work Connects   5 September 2025   It’s easy to see how everything is connected when it comes to electricity and communication. Add money...

Everything is Connected   4 September 2025   One blackout is enough to remind us: everything is connected. When the lights go out on the...

AI: Between Promise and Peril   3 September 2025   Artificial Intelligence is one of the most exciting and disruptive innovations of our...

Everything is connected   2 September 2025   Many years ago, in the eighties, I heard that everything is connected. That we are one. It...