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Budget 2020: personnel costs keep going up
PHILIPSBURG – The draft 2020 budget understandably shows significantly higher expenditures due to the COVID-19 crisis, but it seems that the government is unable to get a grip on its ballooning personnel costs More...
Salaries for ministers unchanged in 2020 draft budget
PHILIPSBURG – The draft 2020 budget does not contain any indication that ministers and parliamentarians will take a ten percent salary cut. On the contrary, the listed salaries for all ministers – with the More...
Draft 2020 budget meets with criticism
PHILIPSBURG – The draft 2020 budget closes with a deficit of 263.2 million guilders ($147 million). Expenditures total 610.5 million and revenue 347.3 million. The Council of Advice is critical of the budget: More...
Ask Sjamira
Op-Ed about the merits of recruitment in the selection process for supervisory board member candidates By Hilbert Haar I recently had to have a document certified by the Dutch consulate in Cambodia to prove that More...
PM visits PSS new location
Prime Minister Romeo Marlin visits Postal Services Sint Maarten new location at former Civil Registry Building PHILIPSBURG – On Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin visited the new location More...
Hefty fines imposed to Sint Maarten Cable TV – revocation of license looms
Philipsburg – Bureau Telecommunications and Post St. Maarten (BTP) imposed administrative fines on Caribbean Teleview Services d.b.a. St. Maarten Cable TV for substantial license violations. For over 10 months More...
Minister Ferrier proposes freeze on hiring consultants
PHILIPSBURG – The list of cost cutting measures Minister of Finance Mike Ferrier released on Tuesday to Members of Parliament contains six proposals that could save the country annually 20.9 million guilders ($11.7 More...
Budget 2018: A patchwork of little known facts
PHILIPSBURG – The second day of the 2018 budget debate went through the motions on Tuesday morning and continued into the afternoon until the meeting was adjourned until 6.30 p.m. to give ministers the time to More...
SXM Cable TV: A Cinderella Story or The Case of The Mass Miscommunications?
In 2013 the court case was pretty much straightforward. Management wanted to have two separate agreements. One CLA for the management team and a separate CLA for the workers. Documents to substantiate their preference More...
Cable TV debate focuses on TelEm
PHILIPSBURG – The Central Committee dealt on Monday afternoon with the situation of the workers at St. Maarten Cable TV. While Cable TV employees were present in the tribune, the debate was more about TelEm’s More...
