Search Results for: screening
FORMATION, SCREENING, APPOINTMENT and DISMISSAL OF MINISTERS
On February 26, 2018, a “snap” election will take place. Voters are called to cast their vote to elect 15 Parliamentarians. According to the Constitution of St. Maarten, Parliament has the task to approve concept More...
Meyers fails screening and steps down as formateur
PHILIPSBURG – Formateur Franklin Meyers has given back his assignment to form an interim-government to Governor Drs. Eugène Holiday because he has failed the integrity screening for the post of interim prime More...
Central Bank President Tromp fails screening
GREAT BAY – The suspended president of the Central Bank, Dr. Emsley Tromp (see photo) has failed a screening by the national security service VDSM, Finance Minister Richard Gibson said at yesterday’s Council More...
Screening
People with a reputation to hold up will think twice before they accept an invitation to become a minister if the current screening procedure does not change. That’s the sentiment we picked up from yesterday’s More...
USp wants review of screening process
GREAT BAY – Cecil Nicholas, former president of the Usp, gave up his taxi-license when he was named a candidate for the position of Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication. Now he More...
Screening
With the untimely fall of a coalition that never was, questions arise again about the screening process. We do not know whether screening-failures are at the heart of the collapse of the cooperation between the More...
Screening candidate-ministers nears completion
GREAT BAY – Formateur William Marlin met yesterday afternoon at 4 p.m. with Governor Drs. Eugène Holiday to discuss the state of affairs around the screening of candidate-ministers and the formation of the new More...
Guilty without a sanction? You are still convicted of a crime, Supreme Court rules
THE HAGUE — Is someone convicted if a court finds a defendant guilty and punishable but does not impose a sanction? The Supreme Court considered this question “in the interest of the law” after the Common More...
Cusha Cartoons: the ultimate political satirical guide to St. Maarten
PHILIPSBURG — Cusha Cartoons is more than a collection of 96 satirical cartoons, published on StMaartenBews.com between 2016 and 2023. Almost all of the cartoons come with back stories that offer readers More...
Partial victory for Minister Cooper in lawsuit against political rival
WILLEMSTAD — The Court in First Instance has forbidden Elvis de Andrade and the political party Union i Progreso (UP) to make a video that contains threats against Minister Charles Cooper (Traffic, Transport More...
