Letter of 5 December 2019 from the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations to the House of Representatives containing a progress report on St Eustatius

In September1 I informed the House about the bill I am preparing to enable the gradual normalisation of administrative relations in St Eustatius.

This bill is currently in preparation and is expected to be put before the House in early 2020. In accordance with the undertaking I gave to the House, I will continue to report to you every six months on progress in all areas affected by the intervention. In so doing I will continue to take my lead from the basic criteria I formulated in the second progress report of 14 November 2018.

In this report I will update you on the current situation, supplementing the letter I sent in September. I will not go into detail about any matters that have not changed since then, but there are a number of issues that I would like to share with the House in relation to the publication of that letter and the associated town hall meeting. In keeping with previous letters, I will describe progress in the administrative, social and physical domains