THE HAGUE - Curaçao has just agreed to the bill for the Caribbean Organ of Reform and Development (COHO). This was confirmed today by the Kingdom Council of Ministers in the Netherlands.
Finance Minister Javier Silvania traveled to The Hague to file an objection on behalf of the Pisas cabinet in the Kingdom Council of Ministers. According to Silvania, Undersecretary Knops has insufficiently adjusted the bill. The minister emphasized the statement on Thursday in the Dutch radio program Nieuws BV of the VARA.
The planned consultations were subsequently suspended, presumably because of Silvania's statement in the radio program. Undersecretary Knops acknowledged that the statements had 'unpleasantly surprised him'.
After emergency deliberations by the Curaçao cabinet, Prime Minister Gilmar Pisas informed Knops that he agreed without reservation. Aruba and Sint Maarten already gave their blessing to the bill in the first term.
The amended Kingdom Act will be submitted to the Council of State of the Kingdom for urgent advice. The advice is expected within a few weeks, after which the bill will be sent to the parliaments of the four countries.