Former MP Claude ‘Chacho’ Peterson called already for a forensic airport-audit in 2019
~ According to Chacho now it is time to open up Pandora’s Box ~ PHILIPSBURG — The call for an investigation into the finances of the Princess Juliana international airport Ernst&Young Advisory recommends in its confidential Financial Baseline Report echoes a request Claude ‘Chacho’ Peterson, at that time a Member of Parliament for 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...
Office space mini audit leaves many questions unanswered
PHILIPSBURG — The General Audit Chamber submitted its mini audit “Efficiency of government’s office space” to Parliament on Tuesday, March 30 with a rather embarrassing conclusion: the auditors were More...
Invoking Article 59 is PM Jacobs’ final option
PHILIPSBURG — Government and Parliament are at a crossroads due to the continued dispute about the insistence by State Secretary Raymond Knops that the Parliament denounces the petition it submitted to the More...
COHO draft law triggers questions about compatibility with Kingdom Charter
THE HAGUE — An earlier report on dossierkoninkrijksrelaties.nl about the advice concerning the draft kingdom law Caribbean Reform and Development Entity (COHO) stated incorrectly that the Kingdom Council of More...
PoP Brison bloopers with charge against MP Wescot-Williams
PHILIPSBURG — Maybe President of Parliament Rolando Brison is not good at math. Or maybe he just wanted to take a cheap shot at MP Sarah Wescot-Williams for criticizing parliament’s decision to hire the More...
The answer is clear: Parliament opposes conditions for liquidity support
PHILIPSBURG — The Choharis-petition to the special rapporteur of the United Nations has drawn widespread criticism, but the backers of this initiative – eleven of the fifteen members of Parliament – 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...
Supreme Court sends Buncampers case back to the appeals court
PHILIPSBURG — Member of Parliament Claudius Buncamper will have to go back to court for a replay of his appeal against his conviction for tax fraud. That is the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s Attorney-General More...
Progress Committee: Situation at prison gloomier than in 2010
PHILIPSBURG — More than three years after Hurricane Irma there are still 21 inmates from St. Maarten housed in prisons in the Netherlands. This appears from the 38th Progress Committee report. Per January More...
