GREAT BAY--Government does not usually fail because it lacks plans. It fails because people stop talking to each other. That was the core lesson Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Melissa Gumbs returned to after an ECYS Ministry strategic planning session held on February 13, a day she described as interactive and marked by candid participation. The session, in her telling, highlighted a deeper, older problem that has a way of quietly draining capacity from any institution, departments and divisions operating in silos.

WILLEMSTAD--A major international investigation has placed Curaçao at the center of an alleged gold-laundering route that moved large volumes of Venezuelan Amazon-sourced gold into Europe, where it was refined and then entered global supply chains connected to major technology and automotive brands.