Complaints cast shadow over garbage collection bidding process
PHILIPSBURG -- Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel is extremely concerned about complaints he has received about the tendering process to award new waste disposal contracts. Emmanuel said if some of the "very worrying" information he has received is true, legal challenges and consequences could follow casting doubt and suspicion over More...
Another one bites the dust: UP-candidate Heemskerk cancels his membership
PHILIPSBURG — It is a bit too strong to say that the wheels are coming off the wagon, but the fact remains that within half a year a second candidate for the United People’s party (UP) has canceled his More...
UP Party condemns Dutch Christian Democratic Party’s remarks about Brison
PHILIPSBURG — To read an article that shows a Member of Parliament in The Hague questioning our Party’s Leader for interacting with a Citizen of St. Maarten, and making that a focal point for discussion, at More...
CDA-faction has doubts about St. Maarten’s reliability
THE HAGUE – Members of the CDA-faction in the Second Chamber have their doubts about St. Maarten’s commitment to the conditions attached to Dutch liquidity support. This appears from the minutes of a written More...
MP Christophe Emmanuel lashes out against MP Brison
~ Says Chairman of Parliament setting dangerous precedent ~ GREAT BAY — Sewing seditious behavior and interfering with civil servants executing directives is a dangerous precedent to set, says Independent More...
MP Emmanuel says PM deflecting from the political deficit in her coalition
~ Says Pro Soualiga employed in Parliament ~ GREAT BAY — Independent Member of Parliament Christopher Emmanuel criticized PM Silveria Jacobs on Monday for deflecting from the fact that she has a political More...
Emmanuel: Dutch gave preview of COHO with latest demands
~ Government should meet urgently, float bond ~ GREAT BAY — Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Friday night said that he has no qualms with the COHO deal not seeing the light of day, More...
Emmanuel writes to PM seeking answers and details about COHO
~ Says people must understand what’s coming ~ GREAT BAY — The Prime Minister and her government must answer urgent questions and provide truthful clarity to the people of St. Maarten about the COHO entity More...
Parliament flips but does not denounce the Pro Soualiga Foundation
PHILIPSBURG – In July a united Parliament rejected the Kingdom’s conditions for continued liquidity support, labeling the intention to establish a Caribbean Reform Entity (CRE) as “a takeover of St. Maarten’s More...
Political grandstanding
By Hilbert Haar Something does not add up. On November 5 the Parliament approved with an overwhelming majority a motion that declares, among many other things, support for attempts by the obscure Pro Soualiga Foundation More...
