Evelyna Christina "Evelyn" Wever-Croes (born 5 December 1966) is an Aruban politician and current Prime Minister of Aruba, serving since November 2017.
[7][8] She was one of eight members of the Parliament of Aruba to resign their seats to become part of the cabinet as required by law.
[12] In October 2019, Raymond Knops, the State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations indicated he wanted to give Aruba a formal instruction in the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on advice of the CAft, as Aruba did not obey fully by the agreement made the previous year.
[14] In April 2020 Wever-Croes stated that she had managed to make a yearly budget saving of 27 million Aruban florin.
[15] In order to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in Aruba, Wever-Croes instated a curfew between 21:00 and 06:00 starting from 21 March 2020.
[19][20] She wrote a complaint letter to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on the severity of the terms, stating: "It's almost as if Aruba has become the country-version of the American George Floyd and our own Mitch Henriquez.
[19] Wever-Croes, with the leaders of Curaçao and Sint Maarten shortly afterwards rejected the terms the Netherlands had set.
[22] In September 2020 the Wever-Croes government obtained 171 million Aruban florin on the local market.
[24] Mid-November she reached an agreement with the Netherlands, which comprised both short and long term financial support as well as the founding of a "Caribbean entity" charged with handling reforms in governance, finances, education and health care.
[25] In early October 2020, Wever-Croes stated that financial support measures for businesses would be continued for a further three months.
[4] In October 2020, Wever-Croes stated that she received a security detail after death threats were made against her.