Published: 12 March 2021
PHILIPSBURG: - As of March 11th, there was one (1) person who tested positive for COVID-19. One (1) person has recovered, causing the total active cases to remain at sixteen (16). The total number of confirmed cases is now two thousand and seventy-eight (2078).
The Collective Prevention Services (CPS) are monitoring fourteen (14) people in home isolation. Two (2) patients are hospitalized at the St. Maarten Medical Center. The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 remains at twenty-seven (27).
The number of people recovered since the first case surfaced on St. Maarten has increased to two thousand and thirty-five (2035). Seventeen (17) people are in quarantine based on contact tracing investigations carried out by CPS.
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Published: 09 March 2021
~ Says Marcel Gumbs a failure for St. Maarten ~
PHILIPSBURG: - Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Tuesday said that considering the lack of progress on Trust Fund projects for St. Maarten, the entire construct of the Trust Fund Steering Committee should be re-evaluated. He also questioned if the three members of this committee will be replaced considering the slow progress on St. Maarten, going on four years after hurricane Irma.
MP Emmanuel pointed out that even State Secretary Raymond Knops has admitted that the World Bank was not the ideal entity to channel reconstruction funds through and criticized the pace of work being executed. Moreover, the MP continued, outside of not working efficiently, nobody seems to know how this committee actually works, how they evaluate what has to be done, how they measure progress, nothing. It all feels shady because of a lack of transparency. We should be getting monthly updates. We ge