To the Minister of Kingdom Relations, Mrs Kajsa Ollongren, PO Box 20018 2500 EA The Hague, the Netherlands. Bonaire, March 20, 2018 Subject: Objection against your Call for the consultative…
Category: Writer’s Block
THE FORMATION OF PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT PART 2
After one week of discussions with party leaders, MPs-elect, social partners and others, informateurs Mr. Jan Beaujon and Dr. Arduin will be submitting their findings to His Excellency, Governor Eugene…
National government, broad based, representative government: what do we mean when we call for such?
The process to form the next government as initiated by the Governor, H. E. Eugene Holiday is taking its course. In fact the “information” phase is nearing its end. We…
94% of households need at least 2222 USD a month to survive!
Not 75% of the households in Sint Maarten but at least 94% of the households in Sint Maarten cannot survive monthly and live in poverty with an household income of…
NEGOTIATING A STABLE GOVERNMENT AFTER ELECTIONS
One of the most used buzz words in this campaign is the word “Stability”. Even those parties that have been in power since 10-10-10 and whose members wreaked instability in…
Press release from the National Alliance for dissemination.
The people of Sint Maarten are growing increasingly frustrated with the uncertain and unstable position that the country was forced into by a few individuals who decided that it would…
USP response
The Democratic Party has been one of the longest serving parties in the history of St. Maarten. We have had our ups and downs, but we have been there for…
CONSTITUTIONAL CHAOS
Hurricane Irma destroyed our country, displaced our people and exposed our government. Governing now appears to be dominated by politics. Decisions that should be made in the interest of the…
THE GOVERNOR IS BOUND TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION
On November 3rd 2017, His Excellency Governor Eugene Holiday signed the national decree declaring that early elections would take place on January 8th, 2018. This was a very rash decision,…
HOW MUCH MORE INCOMPETENCE CAN THE PEOPLE OF ST. MAARTEN ENDURE?
It is incomprehensible and unacceptable for the people of St Maarten to be constantly pinned in corners because of our constant display of incompetence and lack of concern. Those appointed…