WILLEMSTAD - IMOC N.V., the designated Workers Takeover for Refineria Isla Curacao has pulled out from Project Arawak. In a press release, the organization states the following reason:
Project Arawak in it’s search for an operator from outside Curacao, is unconstitutional and collides with the recent motion issued by the Curacao Parliament, signed and submitted same day on October 09, 2020 to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
According to this motion IMOC declares and wants to be in compliance with “… in the preamble of the Constitution of Curacao (Staatsregeling) explicit reference is made to the absolute and inalienable right of self-determination of the people of Curacao …”.
IMOC says that the Project Arawak in it’s present form is unconstitutional and against the interest of the Curacao people, because it favors foreign investors to pull refinery margins away from the country’s economy, benefitting the foreign investor and not the Curacao society.
IMOC in contrast is a local content-based proposal and in the best interest of the Curacao people, the taxpayers, the workers, the social system, and the local economy. It will keep the refinery margins circulating in the island’s economy and prosper the wealth of the country. IMOC is committed to the motion adopted by parliament.
