During the recent debate in Parliament.
WILLEMSYAD--Curaçao Prime Minister Eugene Rhuggenaath (PAR) left for the Netherlands on Wednesday after all, he announced on his Facebook page. The trip had already been planned, but after following news that a budgetary instruction is likely to be imposed on the Dutch Caribbean country by the Kingdom Council of Ministers in The Hague this Friday, the prime minister cancelled it.
However, after consulting State Secretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops it has now been decided Rhuggenaath should go anyway, together with Minister of Finance Kenneth Gijsbertha (MAN) and Minister of Health, Environment and Nature Suzanne Camelia-Romer (PIN).
The prime minister will attend Friday’s kingdom government meeting hoping to avert the proposed instruction that reportedly includes increasing the pension age – already raised from 60 to 65 in 2013 – to 66 and freezing salaries of all civil servants as wells as other public sector employees. In addition, subsidies to working foundations can only be paid out once the budgeted amounts for taxes and social premiums have been deducted.
