WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao must go to the Decolonization Commission of the United Nations if the Netherlands sticks to the current conditions for the third tranche of the loan for corona support. This is already possible based on the "allegedly" negative advice of the Advisory Council on the consensus kingdom law Caribbean Reform Entity (CHE).

The Dutch conditions are undemocratic and resemble a re-colonization of Curaçao. This is what trade union centers CGTC, SSS, and SDK and the non-affiliated union for education staff DOEN indicate. They write in a letter dated 11 August to support the Rhuggenaath government in rejecting the Dutch conditions.

The proposed CHE would override Curaçao's democratic bodies and public institutions for years. According to the letter writers, this is because they must report to the CHE, the Financial Supervision Council (Cft) and the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) or the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom.

This is unacceptable to the unions and in violation of the right to self-determination, as laid down in, among others, the Charter of the United Nations, the Statute, and the Constitution of Curaçao.

According to the unions, the Dutch plan appears to be more focused on the dominance of the local government of Curaçao than on financial-economic aid in the context of the corona crisis. In addition, the unions have little confidence in the help that the Netherlands is willing to provide.