WILLEMSTAD — Party chairman of the PAR in the States, Pedro Atacho states that the current Curaçao government has lost their esteem with the way they handled the screening of the members of the Schotte-cabinet. In this, he responds to the decision from the judge for civil servants that the government should never have put the head of the Intelligence Service, Edsel Gumbs out of action.
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The judge ruled that the government unlawfully refused Gumbs access to the work place. He further declared the appointment of his successor, former Lieutenant Governor Lisa Dindial, invalid. As far as the PAR is concerned, the screening’s process is seriously affected by the performance of the current government. Atacho concludes that MFK-leader, former negotiator and now Premier Gerrit Schotte, has misled the people by stating that all ministers had passed the screening. Despite this promise from the Premier, there have been indications since then that many faults were found on members of the cabinet.
In a press report from the yellow party, Atacho refers amongst others to numerous rumors and publications circulating on behaviors, acts and statements from the members of the cabinet, by which they possibly could not pass a screening. In this, it regards amongst others persistent rumors that a number of ministers have huge debts with the Tax Department and the Social Insurance Bank; the statements from Minister Nasser El Hakim (Economic Affairs, MFK) that his optician business should be able to profit from the fact that he’s become a minister, the court case that the same minister and his organization instituted against an 18-year old female, an employee from Minister George ‘Jorge’ Jamaloodin (Finances, MFK) who supposedly threatened someone with a firearm, ministers who do not want to distance themselves from their companies, and to cap it all, Atacho mentions the suspension of the head of the Intelligence Service at the moment that the ministers had to be screened.
Confronted with the judgment, the PAR-member wants to know what is now going to happen with the island intelligence service. "What is going to happen now that Gumbs has to return? Will one reverse the appointment of the other department head? Will she keep her salary and other compensations next to the current head of the Intelligence Service? We have to thank Premier Schotte for all of this. He has lost all creditability and has affected the screening process," says Atacho. The States should now perform the screening process because the government cannot screen themselves, according to Atacho.
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