Published: 14 December 2020 ~UPP, PFP, and NA supports the signing of agreement and COHO PHILIPSBURG: --- The coalition partners that are supporting the government of St. Maarten give the Prime Minister of St. Maarten its blessings in the form of a verbal declaration to go ahead and sign the COHO law. The leader of the UPP faction was the first to give the Prime Minister the declaration State Secretary Raymond Knops wants when he demanded that she gets such prior to the December 18 th meeting. UPP supports the signing of COHO Law. After making her position known, the UPP MP and Faction Leader Grisha Heyliger Marten gave the declaration that the State Secretary Raymond Knops is looking for, thereby Heyliger Martin then said “ I am sure of our Prime Minister of St. Maarten, the Honorable Silveria Jacobs, who I believe is with her back against the wall with the proverbial knee on her neck by the Dutch government and their representative State Secretary Raymond Knops, making the best decision proven to be beneficial to the people of St. Maarten, because at all time their interests are paramount, which is to allow the process of this COHO to go forward and to sign the "Landspakket" and related agreements. I support this as long as the mandate of parliament is respected, as well as all local, Kingdom, and international laws with regards to the handling of this law.”