Schiphol alarmed about airport’s corporate governance
PHILIPSBURG -- Schiphol International director Kjell Kloosterziel expressed his “profound concerns” about the corporate governance of the Princess Juliana International Airport and about the airport holding. The letter is dated April 9 and addressed to Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs and Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs Ludmilla de Weever. Kloosteriel’s More...
Judge quashes American court ruling about lease-planes dispute
PHILIPSBURG -- The court in Philipsburg does not acknowledge a ruling from the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma that ordered the operator of a local air ambulance company, to pay More...
Airport holding fires CEO Brian Mingo
~ A regrettable decision ~ PHILIPSBURG — In a shareholders meeting on Wednesday, the airport’s holding company (PJIAH) dismissed the operational company’s (PJIAE) Chief Executive Officer Brian Mingo More...
Report recommends external review of airport investments
PHILIPSBURG — The airport’s financial performance for fiscal year 2018 resulted in a 16.4 million guilders ($9.16 million) overdraft. The total bank withdrawal led to a 12.6 million guilders ($7 million) More...
Central committee meeting about airport fizzles
PHILIPSBURG -- A Central Committee meeting of Parliament about the airport fizzled due to the absence of Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs, Ludmilla de Weever, exploitation company CEO Brian Mingo and his More...
Two MPs keep bashing airport director Mingo
PHILIPSBURG -- Just two members of Parliament keep insisting that the Brian Mingo has to be fired from his position as CEO of the Princess Juliana International Airport Exploitation company: Claudius Buncamper More...
The airport-saga: facts and fiction
PHILIPSBURG -- What’s up with the Princess Juliana International Airport? What is fact and what is fiction? What is true and what is false of the relentless charges against the airport-management by local politicians? More...
Christophe Emmanuel: Airline handlers letter is biggest indictment of PJIA CEO
PHILIPSBURG — Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Wednesday said that a letter from the St. Maarten Airline Handlers Association (SAHA) and its Airline Operating Committee (AOC) is the More...
Mingo keeps focus on airport reconstruction
PHILIPSBURG -- “The best way forward is that all layers of PJIA group are aligned. Only then can we become efficient and get the airport fixed correctly,” SXM Airport CEO Brian Mingo said in a Zoom-interview More...
How the airport became a political football
StMaartenNews.com brings you a special report on how the Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) has become a 'political football' with the fundamental question: Who is really Brian Mingo's boss? You can More...