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KRALENDIJK — The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs denied Bonaire’s electricity company WEB €40 million subsidy for its plan to make the island’s energy-supply almost completely sustainable. Instead, the ministry gave €10 million to Bonaire Brandstof Terminals (BBT) “for investments in renewable energy on Bonaire.” The Dutch investigative TV-program Zembla reported in its broadcast of Thursday, February 17, about the situation on Bonaire. The reporters interviewed STINAPA’s marine biologist Roxanne Liana Francisca for the program, as well as her fellow marine biologist at Harvard University George Buckley, Lt. Governor Edison Rijna, communication advisor René Zwart, Edward Sedney (Bonaire Food Bank)…
PHILIPSBURG — The Common Court of Justice wants to hear two members of the Velasquez-family before it takes a decision about Ashton Lake’s request for early release. Lake is currently serving a life sentence for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 5-year old Amy Velasquez on August 27, 1983. The now 59-year old convict is legally entitled to a review of his sentence. On February 17, the court issued an interim-ruling. It states that Amy’s father Bobby Velasquez made his position about Lake’s request known during a court hearing on January 22. However, Amy’s mother Ruth and her sister Jennifer…
PHILIPSBURG — The St. Maarten Communication Union (SMCU) has asked Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs in a letter dated February 16 to provide a template or a format that makes clear to government-owned companies how they have to implement the 12.5 percent reduction on labor conditions for their employees. According to SMCU-chairman Ludson Evers it is unclear whether a part of those reductions can be applied to salaries. “A direct reduction of salaries should be avoided at all cost,” Evers wrote to the prime minister. He also asks in his letter until when the ordinances that regulate the reductions are valid.…
By Hilbert Haar The establishment of the COHO, the Caribbean Organization for Reform and Development, is a done deal, even though the parliaments of the four kingdom countries still have to give their approval. For the Caribbean countries there is no alternative. Of course the parliaments are free to reject the consensus kingdom law but that will have dire financial consequences: no more liquidity support, and no support, financial or otherwise, for sorely needed reforms. The intentions behind the draft COHO-law are honorable. There is no doubt about that. The draft that was sent to the four parliaments last Friday…
PHILIPSBURG — The Ministry of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations submitted the draft consensus kingdom law COHO (Caribbean Organizations for Reform and Development) to the Second Chamber and to the parliaments of St. Maarten, Aruba and Curacao on Friday. On the same day, the ministry launched the website COHO-acs.com that contains information about the legislation and the activities of the COHO. As of Sunday, the Parliament in Philipsburg had not yet published the draft law on its website, but it is available on the website of the Dutch Second Chamber. There is consensus among the governments of the Netherlands, St.…
PHILIPSBURG — When St. Maarten became an autonomous country in the kingdom of the Netherlands on October 10, 2010, the Island Council disappeared and was replaced by the Parliament as we know it today. The date of 10-10-10 therefore marks the switch from a monistic to a dualistic political system. Was that an improvement and does it function as it is supposed to work? That’s debatable. Sjaoel Richardson started the debate about St. Maarten’s dualistic system with a post on Facebook this week. “In sweet sxm you see MPs and ministers shoulder to shoulder defending political moves and strategies, both…
WILLEMSTAD — Old sins cast long shadows. That became once more clear from a court ruling against MFK-parliamentarian Eduard Braam’s attempt to wipe a 20-year old conviction for a sexual offense off the books so that it would no longer stand in the way of his nomination and subsequent appointment as minister of justice. On April 8, 2002, Braam, who worked at the time as a physician in the Netherlands, had sex with a 16-year old patient, a girl with psychological problems. Initially, the court sentenced him to 12 months of imprisonment, with 6 months suspended, but a higher court…
PHILIPSBURG — In February 2020 the Common Court of Justice ruled in favor of Social and Health Insurances SZV in a contract-dispute with E’s Solutions and ordered the company to repay SZV 1,757,550 guilders ($976,417). SZV had paid this amount to E’s based on a different ruling from the Court in First Instance. Now the Supreme Court has annulled the appeals court decision of February 14, 2020, stating that it is “incomprehensible.” The court will now have to handle the case for a second time. SZV has to pay the costs for the procedure at the Supreme Court, around $10,900.…
By Hilbert Haar Since 2013, the European Human Rights Court has ruled several times that a life sentence without the possibility of review is inhumane. The Supreme Court has confirmed this point of view. In the Netherlands, a life sentence was really a life sentence. The only way to get out of prison was through the granting of a pardon. That happened for the last time in 1986. The government has in the meantime aligned its policy with the rulings from the European Human Rights Court and the Dutch Supreme Court. Without that change it would not have been possible…
