WILLEMSTAD - Political leader and faction leader of PAR, Quincy Girigorie, submitted a letter on August 7, 2024, to Javier Silvania, Minister of Finance, through the President of Parliament. This letter was in connection with the decision made by Javier Silvania at the beginning of 2023 to grant tax exemptions amounting to millions of guilders.
In the letter, Quincy Girigorie urgently requested that Javier Silvania provide documents, advice, and relevant decisions that led to the decision to exempt millions of guilders in taxes, including the formal instruction from Javier Silvania to the Receiver to carry out this exemption. Quincy Girigorie urged that these documents be provided before August 13, 2024, to ensure that the upcoming meeting does not turn into a meaningless show by Javier Silvania.
Quincy Girigorie requested these documents as part of his duty to oversee the actions of ministers and to ensure the effectiveness of a meeting that has been postponed since May 11, 2023, and is set to continue 15 months later, on August 19, 2024.
For this meeting, the pressure is on the PNP, which stands for order, decency, and discipline, and its parliamentarians Osepa, Mercelina, Gerard, and Djaoen-Genaro, to demand that Javier Silvania present the requested documents and put them on the table. No pressure can be expected from Javier Silvania's party colleagues in MFK in Parliament, as it concerns a criminal organization.
This is a fact in local political history, and it is still being demonstrated through the actions of Charles Cooper in the FKP case, and Pik Pisas and Charles Cooper in the cases involving deals with PDVSA, CPR, GOMG, and Oryx, which have harmed the people of Curaçao and local companies for partisan and personal gain.
Just as the PNP has stood firm in cases where they did not want to personally involve public officials, it is now expected that they will stand firm again when it comes to the general interest of the people of Curaçao by demanding that Javier Silvania put all the documents on the table before August 13, 2024, as the faction leader and political leader of PAR requested in his petition on August 7, 2024. And if a vote is required in a public meeting, they should not run off to the bathroom, go shopping, or mark themselves absent in Parliament. PNP parliamentarians Osepa, Mercelina, Gerard, and Djaoen-Genaro must not continue to erode our democratic rule of law.
There is hope that the PNP will not continue to obstruct the functioning of Curaçao’s political system in the democratic rule of law for the sake of their own existence after the upcoming elections.