Willemstad/Philipsburg – Following recent media coverage, the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS) reports as follows. In early July 2018, at the request of the CBCS, the Court of First Instance in Curaçao issued an emergency measure with respect to, among others, ENNIA Caribe Leven N.V., ENNIA Caribe Schade N.V. and ENNIA Caribe Zorg N.V. (ENNIA). Mr. Ansary challenged this court ruling through several legal proceedings and has lost these suits. The US Bankruptcy Court in New York has also recognized the emergency measure and rejected Mr. Ansary’s defense against it. The lawfulness of the emergency measure has…
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PHILIPSBURG – Party for Progress member of Parliament Melissa Gumbs sent questions to Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Telecommunications and Transportation Ludmila de Weever on Tuesday, September 28, 2020, about the current status of several outstanding items related to Bureau Telecommunications & Post (BTP). BTP is the country regulator on telecommunications and postal matters. Gumbs, who prior to being elected to Parliament worked for one of the country’s telecommunication companies, based her questions to the Minister on the 2015 General Audit Chamber’s audit report on governance at BTP and the country’s current ICT status. “The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown our…
PHILIPSBURG – It took until July 4, 2018, before the court in Curacao imposed an emergency measure on insurance company ENNIA. In doing so, the court put managers and directors of ENNIA on ice and transferred the authority to manage all of the company’s entities to the Central Bank. But the shenanigans that put ENNIA in troubled waters caused its internal actuary Herman Couperus already eight years earlier to sound the alarm. True to his character Hushang Ansary who considered himself king in his own universe, did nothing with the warnings.
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance overruled in September the government’s objections to granting a right of long lease to Alegria Real Estate. The lease agreement is about a parcel of 13,525 square meters (roughly 200 by 65 meters) of water in an area called Burgeaux Bay adjacent to the Alegria Resort. In a press release issued after the court ruling, Alegria’s attorneys stated that their client is now free invest $100 million in the development of the Morgan Resort, a project said to offer job opportunities to 500 St. Maarteners. In the wake of the court ruling, Minister…
CAY HILL — The Mental Health Foundation in Cay Hill has a large stock of leftover medication, referred to by its staff as “black stock,” for patients who do not have health insurance. Apart from doctors and nurses, all staff has access to the black stock, which is not under lock and key. People with substance-induced psychosis regularly report to the Mental Health Foundation. Any abuse of a substance like alcohol, drugs, hallucinogens, inhalants, stimulants, or sedatives can trigger a psychotic episode, which includes symptoms like hallucinations and delusions. Alcohol and marijuana pose the biggest risk. Many of the cannabis…
PHILIPSBURG – With the tenth anniversary of St. Maarten as an autonomous country within the kingdom of the Netherlands rapidly approaching, the discussion about the constitutional status of the island is slowly coming back into focus. In Curacao the Antilliaans Dagblad and Extra commissioned a survey about the current sentiment to Kenniscentrum Curacao, a part of the University of the Caribbean and its results give us an inkling of what the outcome of a similar exercise in St. Maarten could be. Kenniscentrum interviewed 873 voters by phone. Of the respondents, more than 70 percent said they support a referendum about…
PHILIPSBURG – The government accountants bureau (Soab) audited Finance Minister ardwell Irion’s income and unemployment support programs and found that these programs are mostly executed conform the rules established in the ministerial decree of May 14. There were 340 approved applicants for the income support program; SOAB tested 174 of them; they represent 483,000 guilders of the income support distributed up until July 27. The accountants also looked into 143 of the 282 approved applicants for the unemployment support program. They found that 27 applicants had not submitted a dismissal letter with a company stamp, one applicant submitted a dismissal…
~ Philipsburg Police Station evacuated; prisoners moved to Simpson Bay ~ PHILIPSBURG — Late Monday night, September 28th, 2020, the Philipsburg Police Station was evacuated after an apparent call to the station about a bomb in the building. According to 721news, all police staff was evacuated out of the building. At the time, it was not clear whether there were any prisoners in the police cells and if they were also evacuated. In a broadcast via Facebook, 721news streamed live images of many police officers standing outside the building. It was the changing of the evening shift for the night…
Dear Sir, All political positions and posturing are supported by broad supportive beliefs that are held in the communities which the politicians represent. Does this explain how we are ending up with islands in the Dutch Kingdom not being able to make an agreement on a desperately needed liquidity injection from Kingdom partner Holland? Talk to many people in the islands and there is the belief that Holland is trying to exploit a situation in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom which they should not be exploiting. Yes, they will say there has been mismanagement in the Caribbean, but there…
PHILIPSBURG – Hushang Ansary is not the only one facing a lawsuit initiated by insurance company ENNIA; other defendants in this case include his daughter Nina, his holding Parman International and three others that have played a role in what could be considered as the theft of the century. Here are the key facts, as presented by ENNIA’s attorneys Karina Keizer and Sabine Altena in their petition to the court in Curacao, plus a description of the role each of the defendants has allegedly played in the plundering of ENNIA’s assets.
