Curacao Business
The Dutch minister Lilianne Ploumen of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation will head a Dutch trade mission to Cuba in early 2016. Considering that Cuba and the Netherlands are practically neighbors in the Caribbean, thanks to the presence of the ABC islands, she explicitly commented that companies from Curaçao should also participate. The Dutch state secretary brought this up in a conversation with Cuban Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla when he was on a working visit in The Hague. Ploumen will personally lead the mission, with good timing now that Cuba’s economy is in motion and economic changes are rapidly developing in that country. She is working on improving the trade relationship between the Kingdom and Cuba.