WILLEMSTAD - The board of Human Rights Caribbean Foundation wants to make a revenue model of the organization that helps Venezuelan refugees and that is what president and founder Ieteke Witteveen was careful about.
The board lost their confidence in Witteveen this weekend and she resigned.
Two new board members who have been part of the Human Rights Caribbean Foundation since August have, according to Witteveen, have taken a different course. Witteveen says that the new board members have decided that it must be possible to be both a director and an executive or consultant within the refugee organization. Witteveen says that this is not possible, and this is also laid down in the articles of association.
One of the new board members is lawyer Marc Bannenberg. This lawyer has been on the island for just a year and it is said in the corridors that he has hardly any work and wants to earn extra money this way.
Bannenberg was unreachable for comment.
The group of lawyers that have assisted Human Rights Caribbean Foundation pro bono over the past year was not yet aware of Witteveen's resignation this morning, but they indicated that they support Witteveen.