Minister of Finance received visit and update from Kadaster management team

PHILIPSBURG — The management team of the Kadaster and Mortgage Custodian Registry on St. Maarten visited Minister of Finance Perry Geerlings at his office on Monday this week to provide an update on the progress being made to improve the operation of the Kadaster Department. The team consisted of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Kadaster and Mortgage Custodian Registry Louis Crastell Gumbs, Interim Mortgage Custodian and Acting Director of Kadaster Robert Boekhold and Director for the Kadaster Bonaire Reiner Holder along with Kadaster Board Member Victoria Dubourcq.

Director Holder is here on St. Maarten in an advisory role to the Kadaster Department. The team provided the minister with information on the Kadaster’s operational, strategic and financial performance improvement plans and shared some of their short- and long-term objectives for the organization and ideas for personnel improvement as well.

This meeting was called by Minister Geerlings as a follow-up on the progress of the Kadaster Department since the appointment of an Interim Director just over one month ago. Boekhold was officially sworn as the Mortgage Custodian by His Excellency Mr. Reynold Groeneveldt, Acting Governor for St. Maarten, on July 26.

As well as being the Interim Mortgage Custodian, Boekhold is also the Acting Director of the Kadaster which allows him to sign “Meetbrieven” for St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius.

In the Photo from the left: Director for the Kadaster on Bonaire; Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Kadaster and Mortgage Custodian Registry Louis Crastell Gumbs; Acting Director of the Kadaster on St. Maarten Robert Boekhold; Wilgo F. Lieveld, Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Finance; Finance Minister Perry Geerlings; and Secretary for the Supervisory Board of the Kadaster and Mortgage Custodian Registry on St. Maarten Victoria Dubourcq.