Central committee meeting about airport fizzles
PHILIPSBURG -- A Central Committee meeting of Parliament about the airport fizzled due to the absence of Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs, Ludmilla de Weever, exploitation company CEO Brian Mingo and his 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...
Now we’re in the dog house
By Hilbert Haar Is anybody surprised about the decision by the Kingdom Council of Ministers to freeze liquidity support for St. Maarten? I saw this coming along time ago. The inevitable you-know-what has hit the More...
MP Wescot wants urgent meeting of the Decolonization Committee of Parliament
“The route to the UN via the CLG petition is a way to circumvent the route to the people of St. Maarten for their opinion.” PHILIPSBURG — MP Sarah Wescot is of the opinion that the longer the government More...
Emmanuel: Prime Minister must explain her position on petition
PHILIPSBURG — Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs must explain her position on the petition submitted to the United Nations and added More...
“Constitution being trampled on by the chairpersons” Peterson says
PHILIPSBURG – Member of Parliament for the Party for Progress faction (PFP) Raeyhon Peterson has expressed his concerns for the complete disregard for the Constitution that is being displayed by the chairpersons More...
“Lack of political maturity in Parliament is alarming,” Peterson says
PHILIPSBURG – “Disrespectful to the floor of Parliament.” That’s what Member of Parliament for the Party for Progress faction (PFP) Raeyhon Peterson had to say about the recent conduct of some MPs on More...
Two MPs keep bashing airport director Mingo
PHILIPSBURG -- Just two members of Parliament keep insisting that the Brian Mingo has to be fired from his position as CEO of the Princess Juliana International Airport Exploitation company: Claudius Buncamper More...
MPs question country package but don’t oppose it
PHLIPSBURG — Members of Parliament had literally hundreds of questions during Monday’s Central Committee meeting about the country package agreement the government signed with the Netherlands but nobody More...
Emmanuel: Government willfully stalling by postponing COHO meeting again
PHILIPSBURG — With a second postponement of the Central Committee meeting to discuss the Caribbean Organization for Reform and Development (COHO), Independent Member Of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel has More...
