Category Archives: Chamber of Commerce

Expanding Your Market Through Exports

The Curaçao Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Chamber) does its utmost to assist and encourage local entrepreneurs to expand their businesses by offering their products and services to overseas markets. To expand initiatives, the Chamber collaborates with local companies to determine new markets, promoting their businesses and finding business opportunities abroad. Export Conference SummarizedOn March […]

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

The capital of Curaçao, the city of Willemstad, has been for centuries long a trading post and a central point in the North-South and East-West trading between continents and countries. As a colonial trade settlement it shares a common cultural history with other counterpart cities in the Caribbean region. With its natural harbour the historic […]

Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Business Models in 2014

On 5 November 2014, the Curaçao Chamber of Commerce and the Association for Industry in Curacao (VBC), held a lecture on Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Business Models in 2014. TEXT NEELAM MELWANI Mr. Willem Jonckheer, President of the Chamber of Commerce, opened the event. He spoke about Curaçao’s transition to more sustainable business models, including […]

An Unprecedented Agreement of Business and Political Partners

History is always written afterwards, hardly ever up front. Nevertheless, the signing of a first agreement between representatives of the organized business community of Curaçao with the parties and politicians that support the Curaçao government in power may be history in the making. At least, the business community sincerely hopes so, because this is an […]

Business Boost as new incentive for small businesses

Minister Stanley Palm of economic development and tourism launched “Business Boost” – a program aimed at helping small and medium-sized enterprises in Curaçao. According to the Ministry of Economic Development (MEO), this project will assist, inform and educate 45 small businesses that are willing to contribute up to 30% of the costs for participating in […]

Irving Janga Deputy Executive Director/ Registry Affairs Director

In this edition, Curaçao Business magazine would like to introduce you to Irving Janga, the man behind the curtain who has many roles at the Chamber and who is integral to maintaining an accurate, up-to-date registry for the business community. TEXT HEATHER DE PAULO A native to Curaçao, after completing his primary education, he went […]

Curaçao Chamber of Commerce and Industry observes its 130th anniversary

Few organizations on Curaçao can claim a history that stretches out more than a century. The Curaçao Chamber of Commerce and Industry was founded on October 15, 1884. It may be of no surprise that the Chamber of Commerce underwent several stages in its development, thus going through many ups, and also some downs, before […]