WILLEMSTAD – The Cabinet of Gilmar Pisas has presented its annual progress report Logronan di 2025, offering an extensive overview of initiatives launched and measures taken over the past year. However, the document stops short of clearly explaining what these policies have actually delivered in concrete terms.
The report largely consists of listings of projects initiated, policy tracks started, and investments announced. What is largely missing is a substantive evaluation of outcomes, costs, and shortcomings. Success is frequently defined as the launch of initiatives or the allocation of resources, while it remains unclear whether these measures have led to tangible improvements in areas such as public services, safety, healthcare, or economic resilience.
Objectives are rarely linked to measurable results, and there is almost no comparison with earlier policy commitments. As a result, readers are left without a clear picture of whether stated goals have been achieved or how current efforts relate to past promises.
From a financial perspective, the picture is also fragmented. While the report regularly mentions specific amounts, it does not clarify the structural financial obligations arising from these expenditures or how they fit within the multi-year budget framework. This makes it difficult to assess whether the reported achievements are sustainable in the long term or dependent on temporary funding and exceptional circumstances.
Sensitive issues largely absent
Notably, sensitive themes such as integrity, oversight, and governance are addressed mainly as future or ongoing processes. Criticism voiced over the past year by supervisory bodies and Curaçao Parliament, including concerns about role clarity and the legality of government actions, is not explicitly reflected in the report.
Instead, the cabinet adopts a narrative focused on progress and stability, without visibly engaging with administrative tensions, policy failures, or political controversies that have surfaced during the year. The language throughout the document remains consistently positive and affirming, relying on concepts such as development, resilience, and nation building, but without replacing these terms with a critical analysis of what has and has not worked.
As a result, Logronan di 2025 functions primarily as a communication document outlining what the cabinet says it has done, rather than as an accountability report providing insight into effectiveness, efficiency, and policy trade-offs.
For members of Parliament and the wider public, the central question remains unanswered: to what extent have the activities presented in the report actually contributed to structural improvements in governance and society in Curaçao.