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Tag archive for ‘vote buying’
By The Publisher On Friday, March 10th, 2023
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The Dangers of Selling Your Vote

Grand rising people of Sint Maarten. My name is Joseph Peterson, I’m a candidate on the URSM party list. I am here to talk to you about The Dangers of Selling Your Vote. You are a loyal follower of your political More...

By The Publisher On Monday, January 6th, 2020
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Prosecutor’s Office: Vote buying/selling is illegal

PHILIPSBURG — As residents prepare to go out and cast their votes on election day, ‪Thursday, January 9th, 2020‬, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Sint Maarten reminds the public at large about the country’s More...

By The Publisher On Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
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Checkmate Security director released again

PHILIPSBURG – Checkmate Security director O’Neal A. was released from custody on Tuesday after he was arrested a week earlier on Wednesday as a suspect in the Squid-investigation. The director remains a suspect More...

By The Publisher On Monday, February 19th, 2018
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Prosecutor’s office keeps an eye on election fraud

PHILIPSBURG – “Around every election the prosecutor’s office of St. Maarten receives indications that voters are bribed to cast their vote for a particular party or person,” the Prosecutor’s Office writes More...

By The Publisher On Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
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Matser faces two years in prison for 2014 election fraud

PHILIPSBURG – The public prosecutor demanded 2 years of imprisonment against Member of Parliament Silvio Matser on Wednesday morning for election fraud committed in 2014. The prosecutor also asked the court to More...

By The Publisher On Friday, October 14th, 2016
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Lame approach

The 2014 vote buying case seems to saunter along but not to a speedy conclusion. Memories of the 2010 vote buying case come to mind. It ended with an acquittal for all defendants but not really, because the prosecution More...

By The Publisher On Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
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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...

By The Publisher On Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
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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...

By The Publisher On Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
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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...