Robert Maduro is the head of the DIP

The announcement was made to workers last week. Robert Maduro Supervisory, Controlling and Execution Team Coordinator Current interim director of the Infrastructure and Planning Directorate (DIP). He succeeds Marilyn Dirksen, who is on maternity leave with her first child. Turesten Maduro, former party councillor Environmental Protection Agency Will continue to serve as department head.

Ironically, normally when the interim director is absent, another person is appointed to lead the department. But since this is a long time, at least two or three months, it was decided to keep a “trusted person” in the position.

We have to consider that with every passing month, we are getting closer to the elections scheduled for June 2025. Therefore, land distribution is crucial in the political landscape of our country. Apart from this, there are several large projects that are stuck due to wrong decisions or no decisions made by the DIP. On top of that, the case against the director himself will be judged next month. Jaime Croes entama opposed the Aruban government, demanding pa haya su puesto bek.

As a former active party politician Environmental Protection AgencyIn 1994 he received 207 votes, which rose to 471 in 1997 and 544 in 2001, but fell again in 2005, when he received 214. But in the 2009 election, individual votes fell again, reaching 210.

In addition to his many years at DIP, Robert Maduro is also Chairman of the Board of Utilities Aruba NV and President of Fundacion Sports Lottery Also the President of Stichting Monumentenfonds Aruba. In all three jobs he was appointed by the Aruban government and received additional income in addition to his salary as a public employee. It is unclear whether his minister (i.e. the Prime Minister) allowed him to exercise his “neven activitén” rights outside of his job as a public official. At SMFA he was asked to leave the board due to a conflict of interest.