Wrong speeches in Enfoke program

On August 3, some incorrect claims were made during the broadcast of Enfoke. During that broadcast, among other things, the screening of the ministers of the current cabinet was discussed. The suggestion was raised that the screening was not done well by the attorney general, because the then head of the corps didn’t do her job (also) well.

During the broadcast, one of the presenters showed a copy of the National Ordinance Integrity Ministers of 2021 and was referred to Article 3 of that National Ordinance. According to this article, the Attorney General must provide the judicial data at the screening and relevant information present in the corps through the corps chief. This Country Ordinance came into force on January 1, 2022.

The Wever-Croes II cabinet was installed on September 20, 2021. The screening of the ministers is therefore not based on the State Regulation shown, but on the National Decision screening of ministers of 9 September 2013.

In Article 2 of this Land Decree, the Attorney General was only instructed to make a reference in the judicial documentation register (the so-called criminal cards). And in the National Decree, it further stipulated that the attorney general served to restrict himself to completed cases leading to a criminal conviction.

This also means that the statements made during Enfoke about the screening of the ministers and the role of the attorney general and the then chief of the corps are incorrect. The Aruban society is unfortunately misinformed.

Reliable journalism is of utmost importance to democratic society, which cannot function well without informed citizens and free exchange of ideas. In that open society, the journalist has the right to free news, but also the responsibility to bring the news truthfully, independent, fair and with an open vision.\n

In the meant broadcast of Enfoke about the screening of ministers, there was no mention of that, because there was a lack of fact-check. The National Regulation (of January 1, 2022) and the National Decision (of September 9, 2013) can be easily found on the Internet.