If you ever wondered where our tax money goes, it is going to investigate our ministers. This sport is expensive.
The arrest of Glenbert Croes did not make me happy. Why? Because it is not the first time the minister gets into trouble and people must learn from past mistakes to have a better future. Apparently, he did not.
According to the blog of attorney Lincoln Gomez: October 8, 2024, the Minister of Labor, Energy, and Integration Glenbert Croes was arrested as part of the ongoing Portulaca investigation. According to a press release from the Public Prosecution Service, a search was also conducted at Croes’ home following his arrest. The Portulaca investigation is a long-term inquiry led by the prosecution focusing on suspected criminal offenses related to the issuance of residence and work permits between 2020 and the present.
One of my friends an entrepreneur, the owner of an award-winning boutique hotel applied for a permit for a European Sale and Marketing executive. Because most of his guests are Europeans, he was happy to identify and recruit the perfect candidate. He filed the paperwork. He waited. He paid the executive for ONE FULL YEAR, to sit home and twiddle her thumbs, and the papers never came, despite casual, repeated, minister promises.
Such an amicable guy, but no delivery, because by making himself the authority he disabled the mechanism, and my friend went through the regular channels, which stopped working.
A while ago, I got a reel on WhatsApp, touting the fantasticness of Armstrong Oil and its relationship to Aruba. The reel, a hodge podge of images with AI voiceover, mispronounced the minister’s name because AI does not know how to say Croes, the way we do.
Still, the minister had no problem sending the subpar reel around, making false promises about energy and jobs.
On a positive note: There is no need to shave in jail, he can continue to wear the wild facial hair, his preferred, signature look. In handcuffs, he still had his grin on.
Why the Marinierskazerne? Why was the minister taken to the Marine Camp upon his arrest and why was Marco Espinoza detained, then released? It is a mystery.
Has the minister resigned? He is obligated to do so, according to the law.
Did the government here collapse as a pre-emptive move to lesser the shock waves of Minister’s Glenbert Croes arrest?
Then also yesterday, Minister Geoffrey Wever, Economic Affairs, ditched RAIZ to join Partido FuTURo, led by Gerlien Croes. Not a good move for him. It is very opportunistic. Ursell is too straight for his taste, too correct, too sincere, and Geoffrey did not appreciate that correctness, and decided to move on.
I think he would have done better staying put, why break away now?
You are a minister in a cabinet where ministers are under investigation, stay low, demonstrate loyalty instead of following a perceived opportunity. After all, you got into GOA on wings provided by Raiz.
Two days ago I heard the prime minister promise to elaborate more about the dark forces that were willing to pay fortunes to tear the MEP government down. That is a classic maneuver out of the Trump playbook pitching us against them. They are evil, they want to destroy us, we must close ranks, fight for our survival, a clear message to voters to get behind the leader ASAP. I personally do not believe in this conspiracy theory, there are no Machiavellian forces working here to bring down the MEP government, it is doing it to itself by having no clue how to fix Serlimar, and Arubus, how to deal with our environmental liability, and our super expensive healthcare. And all the scandals that we are uncovering. According to my sources we are the most investigated island in the Dutch Caribbean, no one has more investigations, ongoing.
