WILLEMSTAD - The candidate minister of Traffic, Transport and Spatial Planning (VVRP), Charles Cooper explained recently that one of his first items on the agenda is to call Flow/UTS to talk about the quality of the service the company has been offering to the people of Curaçao.
Cooper says that is it unacceptable what is taking place and he believes that the regulator Bureau Telecommunication & Post (BTP) should be stricter with Flow. But that the BTP is hiding behind a bill proposal of the minister that has been pending for more than a year.
Cooper says that once he is minister, he will call Flow for a meeting to explain to them that the service they are offering is not acceptable. He will give them a few days to improve this on the whole island. The candidate minister says that the current government has sold UTS and Flow and there is nothing he can do about that but if the service cannot be improved, he will revoke the company’s license.
Cooper says that the proposal to buy back Flow is not feasible because the country does not have the necessary funds. All the funds received with the sale of the company went into the Curaçao Medical Hospital. Cooper also says that not all funds have been paid yet.
Cooper says that since the beginning he was against the sale of the national company, but the current government sold it anyways and with that gave away important infrastructure.