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All ingredients for single-mindedness and passion
Cooking, culinary fancy cooking is a pleasurable activity, on which I was brought up. Apart from the customary and necessary daily cooking, my parents just liked to prepare tasty and often elaborate appetizers on which time and care was spent. As a young chap who went along with his father, uncle and cousins on fishing trips into the jungle, I thus soon wanted to also stir in the (jungle) pot too and set the taste.
This activity developed in later years into a culinary mind setting. The nice part of it is for me the preparation and the social environment in connection with it. Yes, composing a menu, determining the ingredients and well-balanced quantities according to the desired taste to be achieved, and the good eaters who know how to turn it into a culinary feast, that gives satisfaction, that’s why I am doing it. Culinary activitiesimply more than just a passion, it also involves feeling for social interest, a service mentality, inquisitiveness and accuracy. Here in the Netherlands Antilles, I further expanded my hobby by first bringing together a private eating club and thereafter entering in as a member of a culinary cooking association. The culinary train of the international cuisine up to the Thai cuisine provides quite some learning and insight into the different cultures, history and all kinds of backgrounds.
Whether it is a folly or not, but the conscientiousness and single-mindedness which this culinary hobby demands, I also find in my business life. Similarly as in the culinary world, it also is true for the law practice that it must be executed conscientiously, with pro-active thinking, proficiency and single-mindedness, geared to the needs of the client(s). Where the client delivers the exactly needed ingredients and the legal menu is suitable within the legislative framework, I will ignite the flame underneath the pan and passionately continue and will not let go until the desired or acceptable result is achieved.
The lawyer in practice
After having completed his studies in Dutch law in 1989 at the Catholic University Brabant in Tilburg in the Netherlands with for his Master’s thesis in his final term paper a treatise on International Comparative Law in private law – Product liability, André amused himself for a while in the catering business. After that he went into
law practice.
First with the Department of Justice in the Netherlands as legal co-worker in the capacity as Determining Official for Access in Aliens (Immigration) Affairs and shortly afterwards (the real business community held greater appeal) in 1992 in the practice of law as a barrister in the Netherlands Antilles. As a practicing lawyer André has been able, apart from the general practice, to dedicate himself in a professional sense to the fields of insurance law, corporate law, telecommu¬nication law. These components of the law he carries out in an advisory capacity, as well as in litigation.
Within his law practice each of these fields individually demand a strict conscientiousness and single-mindedness, in order to be able to provide the client(s) with balanced advice and appropriate legal aid.
From his business-related activities André was asked to participate as a member of the Punitive Committee of the “Vrije Curaçaosche Voetbal Federatie (VCVF) the Free Curaçao Football Federation, an association
with a social and community-oriented character. He is performing said membership now for a number of years with great pleasure and in such capacity making a social and community-oriented contribution. |
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