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PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - On July 17th 2016 UPP Fraction leader and Member of Parliament Frankie Meyers appeared on radio show ‘Breakfast with de Robert’ where several topics were discussed.

One of the topics was Government using Government owned company GEBE to plug the holes of the country’s budget. As example was given the request by the current National Alliance-led Government to withdraw thirty million guilders from GEBE’s account to balance the country’s budget while it is clear that GEBE is facing its own challenges.

MP Meyers stressed on the fact that he believes that Government owned companies should pay dividend, but that Government owned companies should not be forced to pay for the mismanagement of Government.

When the National Alliance board learnt of MP Meyers’ statement they found it necessary to issue a press release full of personal attacks on MP Meyers, his fellow MP and leader of the UPP Theodore Heyliger and, worse yet, blatantly made false accusations towards MP Meyers’ wife. A furious MP Meyers stated: “It seems like whenever they want to get at me, it is my wife that becomes their target. I want to make one thing perfectly clear I, Franklin Meyers am not a door mat for anyone to wipe their feet on!”

“The interesting part in their statement is that they can remember everything that the UP party does or did, but their selective amnesia allows them to forget where in 1998 the then SPA-NA, had Telem take a loan to the tune of five million dollars to pay dividend to government. Secondly, the Falcon switch which was bought for the tune of two million dollars in 1996 by Telem while the former leader of the SPA was commissioner of telecom.

This switch was NEVER used. It cannot be that government mismanages its own funds and when they fall short, they rinse out government owned companies to advance their own political agenda.” MP Meyers went on saying: “How can the NA Board speak of a thirty day loan from SZV for the harbor to pay for a settlement in a court case, but mentions absolutely nothing about a fifty million dollar loan to finalize the completion of the government administration building?”

“To the People of St.Maarten, I want to make one thing abundantly clear: No “DEAL” in any way was offered to my wife at any time in relation to the undersea fiber cable project. But this is the modus operandi of the National Alliance, to slander people’s names for their own political gain. Case in point: my wife’s name was also mentioned in bringing in 300 taxis’s and in her owning shares in the Pelican Resort.

These are all LIES! It cannot be that when I, as a parliamentarian, ask questions to this Government or make statements about THIS Government’s mismanagement, that the Board of the National Alliance throws up a smoke screen and levels accusations that are blatant lies” concluded MP Meyers.