The incoming board of the St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) met with Commissioner of Culture Maria Buncamper-Molanus and Commissioner of Finance Roy Marlin on Friday to chart a way forward in the future development of St. Maarten’s premier cultural event. Both parties agreed that the meeting was a fruitful one with the Commissioners pledging government’s support of the foundation.
The new board of the foundation is well underway with preparations for Carnival 2009. "They recognize that it is rather late in the process in terms of organizing, but these are people, volunteers, who are not new-comers to the process of organizing Carnival, so I am sure that they will be successful. The Island Government will do everything we can to ensure that they are," Buncamper-Molanus and Marlin said in a joint statement.
The incoming board of the St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) met with Commissioner of Culture Maria Buncamper-Molanus and Commissioner of Finance Roy Marlin on Friday to chart a way forward in the future development of St. Maarten’s premier cultural event. Both parties agreed that the meeting was a fruitful one with the Commissioners pledging government’s support of the foundation.
The new board of the foundation is well underway with preparations for Carnival 2009. "They recognize that it is rather late in the process in terms of organizing, but these are people, volunteers, who are not new-comers to the process of organizing Carnival, so I am sure that they will be successful. The Island Government will do everything we can to ensure that they are," Buncamper-Molanus and Marlin said in a joint statement.