Unbiased look at the Sint Maarten Elections
PHILIPSBURG:--- Information reaching SMN News states that the government of St. Maarten are being ripped off by an auto dealer on the island that have been leasing cars to government. According to the information provided to SMN News is that a number of vehicles were leased to the Ministry of Justice and the lease prices are very high even for old cars that are not in proper working condition.The source said that at one point some of the vehicles were repossessed because government was not making its payment but the dealer quickly returned the vehicles to the Ministry but did not change the lease prices even though they know that their vehicles were old and not up to par.SMN News further learnt that the financial controller for government even advised the head of facility management not to continue the agreement as it was because government were being robbed but the head of facility management did not heed the advice of the financial controller.According to the information SMN News received is that government is paying NAF.2, 430.00 ($1,350.00) per month for one vehicle that is eight years old Read more
CFT advices all political parties to follow the same framework when preparing budgets.
PHILIPSBURG:--- The board of the CFT felt that St. Maarten has made the right turn around, by accepting the advices and recommendations when they prepared the draft 2016 budget that reflects the real income of the country. Chairman of the CFT Age Bakker said St. Maarten attained its country status the budgets were not balanced and instead St. Maarten incurred huge debts with APS, and USZV. Bakker said because of that they advised the Kingdom Council last September to give St Read more
Prime Minister And Justice Minister Meets With Soab
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - The Honorable Prime Minister William Marlin and the Minister of Finance Richard Gibson met with SOAB Director Giomaly Martis of Curacao and Country manager Candia Joseph of Sint Maarten.
This meeting was a continuation of a follow up meeting that took place a couple weeks ago Read more
We Aren’T Taking It Anymore, We Are Mad As Hell!
Lenny Priest Leader of One St. Maarten People Party
It is unacceptable that we just can’t get anything right since obtaining the status of country within the Dutch Kingdom on October 10, 2010. Over and over we have to repeat the shame that the established parties (UP, NA, DP, US) are putting this country through Read more
PHILIPSBURG:--- It is unacceptable that we just can’t get anything right since obtaining the status of country within the Dutch Kingdom on October 10, 2010. Over and over we have to repeat the shame that the established parties (UP, NA, DP, US) are putting this country through Read more
National Bank Next Step For Finance Ministry
Ministers Gibson, Marlin, Kirindongo and Lee at the beginning of the afternoon session in parliament. Photo Today / Milton Pieters
St. Maarten News – After the approval of the 2016 budget, Finance Minister Richard Gibson will set the first steps towards the establishment of the National Bank of St. Maarten. The minister made the announcement at the end of his presentation about the draft 2016 budget to parliament yesterday morning.
“To have Gebe with 70 million guilders in the bank and do nothing with it is stupid,†the minister said Read more
Mps Pepper Ministers With Questions In Budget Debate
Independent MP Leona Marlin-Romeo (standing) speaks in the budget debate on Monday.
PHILIPSBURG--The 2016 draft budget was tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Richard Gibson on Monday morning in Parliament House. Members of Parliament (MPs), who had up to 90 minutes to speak, peppered the Council of Ministers with a barrage of questions spanning from the budget and Government policies to general topics of interest.
The seven Ministers, who all made presentations about the working of their Ministries on Monday, will be back in Parliament today, Tuesday, starting at 2:00pm to deliver answers to the questions from MPs Read more
Gibson: Naf. 38 Million For New Investments If Budget Adopted
PHILIPSBURG--Government will be able to make some NAf. 38 million in new investments should the draft 2016 budget be passed by Parliament and receive the stamp of approval from the Committee for Financial Supervision CFT, Finance Minister Richard Gibson told Parliament in the plenary session dealing with the draft budget Read more