A DUTCH CARIBBEAN BUSINESS LICENSE
License required
According to the Netherlands Antilles Ordinance on the Establishment of a Business (Landsverordening betreffende vestiging van ondernemingen, PB 1946 nr. 43), a license is required to establish a company (vestigingsvergunning) as well as one to operate a company as an individual director who is not a “citizen” (directievergunning).
According to the published policy of the Department of Economic Affairs (Dienst Economische Zaken) that is responsible for the enforcement of the Ordinance, a “citizen” is a natural person who is born in the Netherlands Antilles, or one of whose parents was born in the Netherlands Antilles or someone who …
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DUTCH CARIBBEAN COURT DECISION IN TELECOM CASE
Scarlet about to enter telecom market in Sint Maarten
On 18 November 2008, the Administrative Court in Sint Maarten ruled that the Executive Council of Sint Maarten was not authorized to refuse Scarlet a business license for the provision and operation of international telecommunications services in Sint Maarten (click here for the judgment).
Scarlet, represented by Dr. Douwe Boersema of the law firm Spigthoff in Curaçao, appealed through the courts against the decision of the authorities in Sint Maarten to deny it such a license based on a moratorium on new telecom companies. The moratorium …
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