Dutch Caribbean islands respond to cyberattacks on courts, tax departments Multiple countries in the Caribbean are recovering from cyberattacks affecting crucial government services. The countries are part of what is known colloquially as the Dutch Caribbean, which includes Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten. The islands have nearly half a million residents and are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The incidents began two weeks ago when the Curaçao Tax Office said it was dealing with a ransomware attack. The country’s Finance Ministry said the incident affected the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration on July 24 — predicting days of service outages. Some departments were restored last week, including the Motor Vehicle Tax Department and other services. Phone service was down for days…