Matser’s conviction for tax fraud stands
PHILIPSBURG – Former Member of Parliament Silvio Matser has found no reprieve at the Supreme Court in The Hague where he contested his 2017 conviction for tax fraud. The Supreme Court judges – Willem van Schendel, More...
Tantalizing story
There is a tantalizing story developing around the appointment – or not – of Rolando Brison as the director of the St. Maarten Tourist Authority. We always wish everybody the very best but in Brison’s More...
Bank robbery-investigation linked to vote buying case
GREAT BAY – The investigation into vote buying before the 2014 elections by MP Silvio Matser and twenty others started when investigators got wind of something amiss in the so-called Maas-investigation into three More...
Judge: “Matser does his best to avoid court case”
GREAT BAY – “It is clear that attorney Merx and Mr. Matser do their best to avoid this case,” Judge Dirk Gruijters noted drily when MP Matser failed to show up for a pro forma hearing in the Court in First More...
MP Silvio Matser’s tax fraud appeal moved to December
GREAT BAY – The appeal of MP Silvio Matser against his conviction for tax fraud with his now defunct construction company Energizer was postponed yesterday afternoon at the request of the defense that wants to More...
Matser recruited voters in prison for UP in 2014
That is the suggestion of the prosecution in the summons GREAT BAY – Prison Director Edward Rohan gave MP Silvio Matser in August 2014, when he was a candidate for the United People’s party, a list of eligible More...
Figment of the imagination
As we point out in our editorial today, the witch hunt UP-leader Theo Heyliger speaks about (see article on page 3) is a figment of his imagination. On one count the UP-leader is correct: the court acquitted the More...
Merx steps down as Matser’s attorney
GREAT BAY – MP Silvio Matser will have to find another attorney after his legal counsel Cor Merx threw in the towel yesterday during a pro forma hearing about the Octopus-investigation into vote-buying ahead of More...
Battered image
The United People’s party goes into the elections with a severely damaged reputation. That is not, as party-leader Theo Heyliger suggests, due to a so-called witch hunt by the prosecutor’s office but to the More...
USp-leader Richardson attacks Finance Minister Gibson
“It’s time to shut up and go home.” says USp-leader Frans Richardson about Finance Minister Gibson GREAT BAY – Leader of the United St. Maarten party MP Frans Richardson on Monday night More...
