Published: 08 April 2021
PHILIPSBURG: - MP Sarah Wescot-Williams: “I want hard guarantees from the Government for the uninterrupted continuation of the airport reconstruction since they condoned sacking the CEO.”
Brian Mingo, the CEO of the Princess Juliana International Airport has been fired, with 2 months notice, and relieved of his duties immediately. This act by the Supervisory Holding Board has been long in the making and it would appear the 3-man board now feels strengthened to push through with Mingo’s dismissal, notwithstanding the warning signs that appeared following their first attempt to dismiss Mingo in December of 2020.
The airport is at such a crucial stage at this very moment that is seems nearly criminal for anyone to amateurishly mess with the reconstruction. That the Government of St. Maarten would condone such an act is equally incriminating.
Published: 11 February 2021
PHILIPSBURG: - In response to the article published in The Daily Herald on February 9th, regarding a leaked letter from the World Bank Country Director for St. Maarten Tahseen Sayed concerning the state of affairs of the SXM Airport, Prime Minister Jacobs expressed disappointment in the lack of integrity of those who chose to leak an internal document. Prime Minister Jacobs further expressed that government, as the sole shareholder of the Princess Juliana International Airport Holding Company (PJIAH), which holds corporate governance in the highest regard, will ensure this matter is addressed in the Extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers prior to sending a response to the author of the letter which was leaked to the press regarding their concerns. From the onset, the government has pledged and has been committed to executing all the Trust Fund projects that are already under implementation, of which the reconstruction of the SXM Air