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Lake Urges Ministry To Get Rid Of Nipa-Board
St. Maarten – United people’s party MP Maurice Lake urged Education Minister Rita Bourne-Gumbs yesterday to get rid of the board at the National Institute of Professional Advancement (Nipa).
“When the school started in 2014 it had 288 students. In 2015 there are just 65,†Lake said. The board does not live up to any deadlines Read more
St. Maarten Government Falls – Three Coalition Members Defect
Picture: St. Maarten Parliament
NEWSFLASH!! St. Maarten– The Gumbs government fell shortly after 12.30 p.m. today (Wednesday, September 30, 2015) after the parliament passed a motion of no-confidence submitted by Democratic Party MP Sarah Wescot-Williams with an 8-7 vote Read more
Garbage Meeting Fizzles: Many Questions, No Answers And No Solutions
St. Maarten – At the end of a long meeting, finally there were some fireworks when opposition MP asked Vromi-Minister Claret Connor to answer one question: “Is there a contract with a company to build the waste-to-energy plant and how does this jive with your visit to a project in Miami?â€
Minister Connor, who had just said that he would be able to inform the parliament on Monday when he would be able to answer the more than one hundred questions MPs had asked, did not bite Read more