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Pfp Against Efforts To Silence Mps, Rush Through The 2022 National Budget

~ Faction proposes to extend debates into Parliament recess ~

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten With only one week left before Parliament goes on recess, Party for Progress (PFP) Members of Parliament (MPs) Melissa Gumbs and Raeyhon Peterson are spearheading a proposal for MPs to continue working well into the holiday season.

The late submission of the countrys 2022 budget is the reason for the proposal Read more

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Pfp Against Efforts To Silence Mps, Rush Through The 2022 National Budget

~Faction proposes to extend debates into Parliament recess~

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – With only one week left before Parliament goes on recess, Party for Progress (PFP) Members of Parliament (MPs) Melissa Gumbs and Raeyhon Peterson are spearheading a proposal for MPs to continue working well into the holiday season.

The late submission of the countrys 2022 budget is the reason for the proposal Read more

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Pfp Urges Creation Of A Lottery Booth Policy

~Informal count reveals 130~

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Alarming, troubling, and disturbing. These were the words that 16 members and supporters of Party for Progress (PFP) used to describe the number of lottery booths they tallied in an informal count on a hot and sunny Saturday, November 6, 2021.

Armed with pens, paper and mobile phones, these volunteers drove through every district in the country and marked the names and/or addresses of the lottery booths they saw Read more

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Richardson Heirs Claim Vineyard: It Is Time For Redemption Now

By Jacqueline Hooftman
Source: The Daily Herald

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — 45 heirs of the late Alfred Richardson are the owners of the Over the Bank and Vineyard Heights area, liquidator Mylene Imelda Richardson revealed to The Daily Herald. Forty heirs have come forward to claim what is rightfully theirs, and to stop the unlawful actions of the Government of St. Maarten.

In addition to in St. Maarten, Richardson heirs reside in Curaao, Aruba, Bonaire, the Netherlands, Italy and the United States Read more

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Pfp Requests Public Meeting To Vote On President Of Parliament

~ UD, UP, USP and Emmanuel sign on ~

PHILIPSBURG - Stemming from the recently leaked, controversial statements of President of Parliament Rolando Brison, Party for Progress (PFP) Members of Parliament (MPs) Melissa Gumbs and Raeyhon Peterson have called on MP Brison to resign from his position Read more

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Pfp Berates PmS Approach To Censor Press And Public

PFP MP Melissa Gumbs                    PFP MP Raeyhon Peterson.

~ Wants whistle Read more

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Pfp Calls For Implementation Of Whistleblower Policy

~ Denounces Jacobs’ Approach to Censor Press and Public ~

PHILIPSBURG – Party for Progress (PFP) Members of Parliament (MPs) Melissa Gumbs and Raeyhon Peterson denounced recent statements made by Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs, who, during the Council of Ministers press briefing on Wednesday, warned that governments attention will be focused on adjusting the countrys legislation to criminalize the press and members of the public from sharing leaked internal government documents Read more

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Part 1-2-3:

A land saga at Vineyard Heights (proposed housing development in Over the Bank) is currently brewing due to 25 persons receiving long lease parcels that were also allotted to 54 persons in 2016. The situation is technical because the issuance of government land (erfpacht) has no clear policy. This leads to the Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (VROMI) ultimately deciding who gets land. That lack of policy eliminates checks and balances Read more

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Minister Doran Publicly Apologises For Insulting Ombudsman Mossell

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure VROMI Egbert Doran has publicly apologised for his letter to Ombudsman Gwendolyn Mossel.

  Doran had been urged to do so by Members of Parliament (MPs), who unanimously called his letter abominable.

  On Tuesday, Doran wrote to the ombudsman, who had asked the minister questions about Vineyard Heights/Over The Bank and announced a systemic investigation into the allocation of pieces of land, saying that he suspected that the ombudsman was not impartial in this matter.

  These properties and the allocations of same that you are seeking clarification on are directly tied into person that you were/are legally and/or physically involved with Read more

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Erfpact Land Distribution A Known Taboo For Politicians On St. Maarten.

~ A policy is like placing a band-aid over a life sore.~

PHILIPSBURG: --- The distribution of long lease land to voters during an election is a known taboo for politicians on St. Maarten, it is one of the reasons why the Ministry of VROMI is fought for during coalition negotiations. In most cases, the best negotiator wins.

Members of Parliament that were either commissioners or ministers are guilty of receiving parcels of land for themselves their family members, close friends, and party supporters Read more

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Mp Peterson: Fair Procedures For Granting Long-Lease Land Need To Be Put In Place To Prevent Abuse And Nepotism

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The brewing controversy surrounding the granting of long-lease rights in the area known as Vineyard Heights has shed light on the governments systemic lack of procedures, transparency and accountability. This is the view of Party for Progress (PFP) Member of Parliament (MP) Raeyhon Peterson, who is renewing his call for fair policies and procedures to be put in place to prevent abuse by political authorities in the issuance of government-owned land parcels. 

From the very beginning, in 2016, the granting of parcels in the area was done in a way that was not in line with good governing practices Read more

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Driver License Examiner, Vks Gun Controller Not Suspended After Causing Fatal Accident.

~ No advice sent to Minister of TEATT informing him that the civil servant is under investigation. ~

PHILIPSBURG: --- The civil servant and VKS gun controller and officer Charles Samuel who caused the fatal accident on L. B Scot Road on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 is still on active duty and not suspended even though the police has started an investigation into the deadly accident that left Simpson Bay resident Jason Peterson dead.
Based on research conducted by SMN News it turned out that the driver of the SUV that was involved in the accident is the brother of Minister of Education Rodolphe Samuel.
Besides having a brother in the Council of Ministers, the driver is also a civil servant that works at the Ministry of TEATT at the Drivers License Department and is responsible for conducting the driver's licenses examination on St Read more

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Mp Peterson Calls For Reactivation Of Police Complaints Committee

MP Raeyhon Peterson advocates for the reestablishment of the Complaint Committee on Police Action. 

PHILIPSBURG--When police cross the line, you as a citizen can file a complaint with St. Maarten Police Force KPSM, but that rarely leads to disciplinary action. This has to change, there needs to be an independent complaints co Read more

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Mp Peterson Appeals Community Service Sentence For Scuffle With Police Officer

Raeyhon Peterson

PHILIPSBURG--Current Member of Parliament (MP) for Party for Progress (PFP) and former Acting Head of Domain Affairs at the Ministry of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (VROMI) Read more

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Pfp: Schiphol Group Letter Worrying, But Not Shocking

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten PFP members of Parliament Melissa Gumbs and Raeyhon Peterson expressed concern, but not surprise, at the May 6thletter sent by Schiphol Group to the Government of St Read more

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Pfp Calls On Coalition To Withdraw Petition To Un

PFP MP Melissa Gumbs

PHILIPSBURG--Party for Progress (PFP) Members of Parliament (MPs) Meli Read more

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Peterson: St. Maarten Constitution Being Trampled On By Parliament Chairpersons

PHILIPSBURG--A complete disregard for the St. Maarten Constitution is being displayed by the Chairpersons of Parliament, said Party for Progress (PFP) Member of Parliament (MP) Raeyhon Peterson on Tuesday.

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Pfp: Petition Is Poor Start To Decolonization Discussion

PHILIPSBURG PFP Members of Parliament Melissa Gumbs and Raeyhon Peterson once again reiterated their factions distance from the 5 November 2020 motion of Parliament relating to the decolonization process, after Parliament received a copy of a petition submitted by the Choharis Law Group to the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioners Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism and the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.

The petition, totaling 37 pages with appendices, was sent to Parliament thirty minutes before the start of a closed-door meeting of the Committee for Constitutional Affairs & Decolonization, a fact the PFP says gives the impression that the meeting itself was called as a formality to share a document that had already been shared externally Read more

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Peterson Says Lack Of Political Maturity In Parliament Alarming

PFP MP Raeyhon Peterson

PHILIPSBURG--Disrespectful to the floor of Parliament is what Party For Progress (PFP) Member of Parliament (MP) Raeyhon Peterson had to say about the recent conduct of some MPs on the floor of Parliament.

  Peterson raised his concerns in a meeting of the Central Committee regarding an update on the reconstruction of Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) Read more

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Lack Of Political Maturity In Parliament Is Alarming, Peterson Says

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Marten – Disrespectful to the floor of Parliament. Thats what Member of Parliament for the Party for Progress faction (PFP) Raeyhon Peterson had to say about the recent conduct of some MPs on the floor of Parliament Read more

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Pfp Board Strong Vision. Strategy. Action

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten On Monday, 1 March 2021, the Party for Progresswill launchan English translation of thelandspakket/country package of reforms related to the third tranche of liquidity support from the Netherlands.The document will be provided via the PFP website (www.pfpf.sx).In a brief statement, the party stated:

One of the main concerns that have been brought to the PFP faction is that the document related to the reform package (the ‘landspakket’) is in the Dutch language. 

Week in and week out, Parliament has seen members of Parliament speak about the conditions for support, many referencing bits and pieces for their own pro or con agenda Read more

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Pfp Pregunta A Minecys Sobre El Estado De La Nipa Y El Rol De Director

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Los miembros del Parlamento de la faccin Party For Progress (PFP), Melissa Gumbs y Raeyhon Peterson, enviaron algunas preguntas el lunes 1 de febrero del 2021 al Honorable Ministro de Educacin, Cultura, Juventud y Deportes, Ministro Rodolphe Samuel, sobre el estado del Instituto Nacional para el Progreso Profesional Read more

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Pfp Questions Minecys On Nipa Status, Director Role

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Membersof Parliament for thePartyForProgress (PFP)Faction, Melissa Gumbsand Raeyhon Peterson sent questions on Monday, 1 February 2021 totheHonorableMinisterof Education, Culture, Youth & Sport, MinisterRodolphe Samuelregarding the status of the National Institute for Professional Advancement (NIPA) Read more

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Pfp Requests Vaccination Plan Update From Ministry Of Vsa

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten Party for Progress membersof Parliament Melissa Gumbsand Raeyhon Petersonsubmitted critical questions regarding Country St Read more

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