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Article 25 Trumps Article 16 Of The Kingdom Law On Financial Supervision.

The conclusion I have come to after reading a letter dated October 19, 2020 sent by the Minister of Finance Ardwell Irion to State Raymond Knops is that article 25 of the Kingdom Law on Financial Supervision trumps articles 16 of the same Law. A text from the advices of the Department of Judicial Affairs and Legislation from the Ministry of General Affairs both from St Read more

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254 Million For First 3 Months In Financial Aid

PHILIPSBURG Economies across the world have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and St. Maarten is no exception. The necessary measures of closing the borders in order to control the spread of the virus has resulted in a practical halt of all economic activities on the island. The foremost effected are all economic activities that are directly related to tourism; the so called frontline or first tier. Depending on the source and what is considered directly related, indirect and induced, tourism accounts for 50 – 80 % of the GDP of St Read more

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Ministers & Parliamentarians Agree To Salary Reduction In Solidarity Initiative

Liquidity support 2019 becoming a reality

PHILIPSBURG Current and previous Ministers back initiative to support island recovery with a ten percent salary cut.The Minister of Finance, Ardwell Irion sought and received the support from his colleagues in both the Parliament of St. Maarten and the Council of Ministers.

The Minister of Finance presented his colleagues with the initiative as far back at February, that expressed solidarity with the people of St Read more

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Finance Minister, Bankers: Use Guilders, Save Foreign Exchange

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten Residents and businesses on St. Maarten are called on to help keep the foreign exchange reserves ((United states dollars) in balance by turning to the countrys little used official currency – the Netherlands Antilles guilder.

The severe drop in tourism means no more US dollars coming in, Finance Minister Ardwell Irion announced at the press conference with the St Read more

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President Of The Witu Elshot-Aventurin Reacts On The Decision Of Government To Closed The School

Philipsburg, Sint Maarten — Press release from WITU: While preparing this Press Release with the intention to reach out to our members (teaching and non teaching staff) at all schools to express our concerns to them as educators of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, WITU learned of the decision taken by the Prime Minister of Sint Maarten Ms. Silveria Jacobs to close all school on Dutch Sint Maarten as of Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 for the period of two weeks.

Over the past days we have had a number of our members with questions and concerns and WITU regret not being included in meetings with the EOC to be able to provide our members with insights and recommendations or to come up with appropriate responses to the pandemic in education Read more

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Minister Of Meycs Irion Says School Continues As Normal. DonT Be Blinded By Following Fake News

GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) Honorable Minister Ardwell Irion on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports (MECYS) would hereby like to state that there is an unofficial message circulating on social media about school closures, and this is untrue. Ignore fake rumors and only respond to statements from formal government channels.

Schools continue to operate as normal on Monday, March 16 and going forward.

The fake news message circulating says that the source of the info is from the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations, and that it is on the advice of the Minister of Health etc.

The Ministry MECYS hereby advised all teachers, parents, guardians and school managers of public and subsidized schools, to monitor official sources and trusted news organizations for their information with respect to educational activities and developments on Sint Maarten.

Notices from other countries are being re-posted on Sint Maarten by persons who unknowingly are creating distress and unnecessary panic Read more

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N.Ap.B./W.I.S.C.U./P.S.U And A.B.V.O. Reacts On Government Statement

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — The following unios N.AP.B./W.I.S.C.U./P.S.U and A.B.V.O. responded to an article posted in the Daily Herald newspaper, dated March 5th 2020, the Unions

(N.AP.B./W.I.S.C.U./P.S.U and A.B.V.O.) would like to clarify what was agreed upon, in regards to the UTS sales, being used to cover a partial amount of the pay owed to the justice workers.

The Unions had stay quiet for a while. This was in order to give the Government of Sint Maarten, time to work, what by now should be in the final stages of their members Read more

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