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Up Will Support Budget Only If Opposition Amendments Made

PHILIPSBURG--The opposition fractions in Parliament will vote in favour of the draft 2016 budget only if several amendments reflecting the opposition position are made, United People’s (UP) party leader Member of Parliament (MP) Theo HeyligerRead more

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Super Seven Prepared To Give Quorum For Budget Meeting

PHILIPSBURG--Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs), collectively referred to as “Super Seven,” are prepared to support the restart of the debate on the draft 2016 budget in Parliament.

United People’s (UP) party leader MP Theo Heyliger told The Daily Herald the budget debate is an important one for the country, government and people of St Read more

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Dutch Mps Laud Vote Buying Investigation

THE HAGUE--The liberal democratic VVD party, the Labour Party PvdA, Socialist Party (SP) and the Party for Freedom PVV in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament lauded the move of the St. Maarten Prosecutor’s Office in Wednesday’s arrest of St. Maarten Member of Parliament (MP) Silvio Matser and two others in the vote buying investigation.

Members of the Second Chamber André Bosman (VVD), Roelof van Laar (PvdA) and Ronald van Raak (SP) were especially content that the Prosecutor’s Office and other local law enforcement agencies were moving ahead with the active investigation and prosecution of illicit acts by elected/government officials.

Sietse Fritsma (PVV) stated that Matser’s arrest in connection with election fraud didn’t come as no surprise as “vote buying has been the common practice for many years in the banana republic St Read more

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Mps Pepper Ministers With Questions In Budget Debate

Independent MP Leona Marlin-Romeo (standing) speaks in the budget debate on Monday.

 PHILIPSBURG--The 2016 draft budget was tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Richard Gibson on Monday morning in Parliament House. Members of Parliament (MPs), who had up to 90 minutes to speak, peppered the Council of Ministers with a barrage of questions spanning from the budget and Government policies to general topics of interest.

  The seven Ministers, who all made presentations about the working of their Ministries on Monday, will be back in Parliament today, Tuesday, starting at 2:00pm to deliver answers to the questions from MPs Read more

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