WILL 2012 BE A BETTER YEAR?
It depends on us!
What do you and I have in common? That we probably, just like all other people on earth, are descended from a people that lived in Africa in a far past. Thus considered we are all brothers and sisters. One big family, one big community, but not as closely and not as strongly connected as many of us would like it to be.
In the course of history differences have increased. Differences, for example, in appearance, in color, in language, in religion, in culture, in education, in prosperity etc. And with these differences, contradictions arose: between …
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HELP MAKE CURACAO ABLED
The Laura and Wagner Foundation Fundraising Evening
On Thursday December 3, 2009, the Laura and Wagner Foundation are holding a fundraising evening at the Netherlands Antilles Central Bank.
Special guests will appear via TeleConference to discuss how to make technology more abled for the disabled. Click here to read the flyer.
The Laura and Wagner Foundation is a Curacao-based non-profit NGO (non-govermental organization) whose mission is to serve as an advocate for disabled people of all ages in Curacao and the Netherlands Antilles by:
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DUTCH SAME-SEX COUPLES HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS OPPOSITE-MARRIED COUPLES IN THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN
Spigthoff represented plaintiff
According to a recent court ruling in the Netherlands Antilles (Court of First Instance, 17 July 2008), a same-sex couple that was married in the Netherlands and subsequently moved to the Netherlands Antilles (Curacao), has the same rights under Netherlands Antilles law (or Aruban law as the case may be) as Netherlands Antilles opposite-married couples as far as health insurance is concerned. Dr. Douwe Boersema of Spigthoff Attorneys & Tax Advisers on Curacao represented the couple.
Same-sex couples have been able to marry in the Netherlands for the last seven years. However, Aruba and the …
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