Karel's Legal Blog

To all for whom the new year starts on 1 January (Gregorian calendar)
All of us at Spigthoff Attorneys & Tax Advisers LLC Curacao wish you a happy and prosperous 2011.
Bon aña nobo i tur kos bon!
We hope to be of service to you (again) in 2011.
Best wishes,
Karel Frielink
(1 January 2011)
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Pueblo di Korsou: Masha Masha Pabien!
People of Curacao: Heartfelt congratulations!
A new journey has started on a route never taken before. Let us all take pride in our heritage and let us embrace our new country and mix the two with love and respect. We should value diversity and show respect for each other’s traditions. Together, [...]

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Speech Karel Frielink – Launch Party 30 September 2010
Ladies and gentlemen!
A very warm welcome to this Launch Party.
Earlier on in 2010, Anne Marije Veenland (a tax adviser) and Martine Hofhuis (a lawyer) joined Spigthoff. Tomorrow, Phyllis van den Hout will join our firm as a lawyer as well. Many of you will already know her [...]

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CKN is seeking financial support
Caribbean Kids News (CKN) is a unique program for Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba, thus for six very special but quite different islands.
For the first time a news program informs young people between 9 and 14 years and gives them a voice in the Caribbean region. The [...]

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Geert Wilders: “There is nothing wrong with Islam”
The Dutch congressman Geert Wilders (Freedom Party (Partij voor de Vrijheid)) will deliver a speech on September 11, 2010 in New York in opposition to the proposed building of a mosque close to Ground Zero. He will not only condemn the followers of Islam, but also Islam itself. [...]

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Professional for assurance engagements in the financial services sector
KPMG is a US $ 20 billion professional services organization with 135,000 people operating in over 140 countries, helping turn knowledge into value for its clients worldwide. Excellent career opportunities are available with the KPMG Dutch Caribbean practice for their office in Curacao. These opportunities are with the [...]

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Item about fire trucks (click here)
The kids news in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba has won the ‘KNN Award’ during the annual summit of the eight Kids News Network programmes. The award is a yearly professional prize for the best report of the network (see FreeVoice news item).
Sulin Passial, chief editor of the Caribbean Kids News [...]

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Spigthoff Curacao heeft vacatures voor advocaten met zo’n 3 tot 5 jaar ervaring in corporate / commercial / finance:

ervaren en breed inzetbare advocaten
in staat om te procederen, te adviseren en transacties te begeleiden
uitmuntende beheersing van de Nederlandse en Engelse taal, zowel in woord als geschrift
in staat om zelfstandig te werken
nastreven van topkwaliteit
netwerker

Geïnteresseerden kunnen contact opnemen met Veronika [...]

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The year 2010 has begun
I wish you good health and heartfelt happiness. Let’s hope 2010 will be a better year, especially for the poor, the oppressed and the sick among us. May we all defend and honor human rights.
And now for something completely different. In a couple of months we will be celebrating the 5th [...]

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Nobel Winds & Breezes

Good poetry begins with
the lightest touch,
a breeze arriving from nowhere,
a whispered healing arrival,
a word in your ear,
a settling into things,
then like a hand in the dark
it arrests the whole body,
steeling you for revelation.
(David Whyte)
Let’s talk about winds. Nobel winds. Nobel winds and breezes. Sometimes law even has something to say about the [...]

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