WILLEMSTAD - Dissatisfied with the current process to the new political structure, six persons from Curacao returned their royal decoration to the cabinet of the governor this morning.
Writer and linguist Frank Martinus Arion was the first person that made his intentions known two weeks ago right after the Round Table Conference on December 15. Direct reasons were the occurrences around the manifestation, during which the riot police took hard actions. Martinus Arion and the other five that returned their decoration had this feeling of dissatisfaction about the linking of the island's autonomy to the debt restructuring for quite some time already.
Arion, PLKP-politician Errol Cova, MAN-member Pim Senior, musician Oswin ‘Chin' Behilia, former-administrator Jules Eisden, and radio presenter Winston Lourens are of the opinion that the Netherlands is guilty of re-colonization the Antilles, in which the autonomy is no longer an issue.
Returning his decoration is a painful experience for Frank Martinus Arion, because it is a token of distinction. But he is no longer in agreement with the current state of affairs in the Netherlands and the relation with Curacao. He mentions matters like the Cross-Reference Index Antilleans (VIA), the mandatory naturalization, and the rising racism in the Netherlands, which nobody seems to declare him/herself openly against. He's also stresses about the ‘big influence that the Dutch Justice-minister is going to have on the Antillean procurator-general in the new political structure'. We are being humiliated and offended and there is nobody in the Netherlands that make a stand for us. We can as well drop all the relations and become independent. I am extremely disappointed in the Netherlands."
Jules Eisden wrote in his letter to the editor that was published in last Saturday's edition of this paper, that in his opinion, the Dutch Justice-minister's authority to give instructions as well as the violation of the right to approve the budget by the introduction of a financial supervisor is redundant and colonial, since the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands of 1954 offers sufficient guarantee to the government for the Kingdom, see article 43 sub 2, that is required to guarantee good government for the population. In conjunction with article 52, the government for the Kingdom must have corrected the wrong direction long time ago already.
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