Aruba Corruption Concerns : As if the coronavirus and its economic consequences were not enough, there is also action on the political and judicial front. The extensive complaint filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the former minister of Territorial Development and Infrastructure, and six other persons related to nine reported cases, made the news. We are reaching a point where it is no longer possible to deny that there is much to fix, and if we do not fix everything, nothing is fixed. We are reaching the point where a citizen cannot get anything done anymore, because for many things, if there is no payment, you do not get normal treatment. We see the recent example in the startup of the economy after coronavirus. The construction sector was allowed to resume, but within the ‘fast track’ framework everyone had to queue at DOW’s door for a special permit. Why not simply grant pending permits? The work of control at the construction site must take place anyway, so doing it that way does not create extra work. Our governmental apparatus is so accustomed to creating obstacles for everything, and this submissive people just keeps accepting everything, that we don’t even protest anymore. We are in a community so accustomed to abnormality that it has already become our ‘new normal.’ We didn’t need coronavirus for that.
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