Published: 18 December 2020
~ Says people must understand what’s coming ~
The Prime Minister and her government must answer urgent questions and provide truthful clarity to the people of St. Maarten about the COHO entity that is about to take over their lives. So says Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel as he submitted a letter to the PM, via the Secretariat of Parliament, on Friday.
Emmanuel said he will “not let up” and will “not stop asking questions” about the drastic change that is about to occur on St. Maarten in return for a third tranche of liquidity support. He said Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs came to Parliament and spoke in “general terms” without providing clear answers to anything. “It was clear that she herself doesn’t know but Parliament had to rubber-stamp. It is the choice and free-will of other MP’s to go along, not this MP. Not while I know the people of St. Maarten, its government apparatus, companies, civil se
Published: 16 December 2020
PHILIPSBURG: - Minister of Justice Anna Richardson Anna Richardson appeared arrogant and annoyed with the questions posed to her and Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs about the issuance of the DMV license. Richardson made clear, she is the daughter of the soil and also said she worked day and night conducting research prior to requesting from the government the DMV license.
It should be noted that Minister Richardson said she obtained the license in 2013, however, sources said the Minister did obtain a business license in the form of a BV while she was blocked from obtaining an operational license from the Ministry of Justice by several of her predecessors. As such the Minister did not obtain all the required licenses to operate the DMV back in 2013.
St. Maarten: Majority of MPs lend support to Dutch financing agreement
PHILIPSBURG - Despite several harsh statements, a majority of Members of Parliament (MPs) on Monday threw their support behind Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs to accept the Netherlands’ proposal for further financial assistance and the creation of the Caribbean Entity for Reform and Development COHO.
The governments in The Hague and Philipsburg hope to conclude the agreement in the Kingdom Council of Ministers meeting this Friday. However, Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops in a series of letters over the weekend told Jacobs that the Dutch Cabinet required explicit approval of the deal by St. Maarten’s Parliament.
Published: 14 December 2020
PHILIPSBURG: - Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Monday said he would not support the establishment of the so-called COHO (Caribbean Organization for Development and Reform) dubbing Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs as leader of a “government of weakness” that has set St. Maarten up for a complete Dutch takeover that will attack the very way of life on the island. “It is shocking to me that the PM can see this as the way to fix our issues, but we will not surrender,” the MP said.
Emmanuel was speaking during the urgent Central Committee meeting called on Monday to receive an update from the Prime Minister about the negotiations with the Dutch Government for liquidity support. He was the only MP to unequivocally say that the COHO has not and will not get his support. “I am not entertaining any type of discussion that renders another entity in this country,” he said. The MP said the PM and the government of St. Ma
Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs updates Parliament on 3rd tranche of liquidity support agreements with BZK
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~ Receives support from the majority of Parliament ~
Today, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs updated the Parliament of St. Maarten on the outcome of the negotiations with the Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) surrounding the third tranche of liquidity support to gain the level of support needed to be able to proceed. Over the past six weeks, St. Maarten’s negotiation team has been in discussions with BZK in order to come to agreements on the third tranche of liquidity support. These negotiations mainly included agreements on the structural reform packages where there were possibilities for improving the adm