Local parliamentarians more than 4,000 times more expensive than their Dutch colleagues
PHILIPSBURG/THE HAGUE - “It is difficult to explain why parliamentarians and ministers n St. Maarten – the smallest country in the Kingdom – receive the highest salaries,” State Secretary Raymond Knops wrote on Tuesday in answers to questions posed by MP Ronald van Raak (Socialist Party).
The State Secretary noted that these salaries fall under the authority of Country St. Maarten and that it is up to St. Maarten to come up with an explanation.
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