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No Meeting To Approve Ipko Delegation Due To No Quorum

MP Ludmila de Wever, standing, about to sign in for the meeting, which could not be held due to no quorum, on Thursday morning.

 PHILIPSBURG--Thursdays scheduled meeting of Parliament to approve the composition of the delegation to participate in the Inter-Parliamentary Kingdom Consultations IPKO and Tripartite, did not take place due to a lack of quorum.

IPKO Is scheduled to be held in The Hague, Netherlands from May 31 to June 5.

Chairperson of Parliament Sidharth Cookie Bijlani opened a gathering of Parliament, and told MPs present that the meeting was not able to start as there had been no quorum Read more

~Proposes 3 steps to alleviate justice workers' concerns~

PHILIPSBURG:--- Leader of the United People's UP Party in Parliament, MP Rolando Brison, sent a letter to Justice Minister Anna Richardson Tuesday, offering three solutions for her consideration that could help ensure the proper basis for Police overtime pay for extraordinarily long working hours during carnival, retroactively pay Justice Workers, and revise and finalize the issuing of the workers' placement letters.

In his letter, MP Brison expounded on his suggestion, made during an urgent Parliamentary Meeting on Wednesday last week Read more

Shame Shame Shame Minister Of Justice !

The saga of the Ministry of Justice continues with untruthful and/or half truth stories, starting with:

the function book is finished and signed and payments will follow, to not yet ready and returned by the Governor, then to the pension funds APS needs to do their calculation, then to SOAB needs to do an audit, then to money is there, then to placement, then to maybe payment can be done earlier than planned, to now legal heads will look into it.

But in the meantime, the Police and Immigration officers are tired of being fooled with setting deadlines, which were still not met by the Honorable Lady Minister of Justice, that insists and repeatedly stating that she yes will do it right, correct and the legal way Read more

PHILIPSBURG:--- Incoming Minister of TEATT Leo Lambriex will be sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.
SMN News has been reliably informed that Lambriex will be taking the oath in the presence of Governor Ajamu Baly on Wednesday however the time of swearing-in has not yet been released by the Governors office.
Lambriex was selected as the Minister of TEATT by the two Independent Members of Parliament who have given their support to the National Alliance and United Peoples Party coalition government when a number of Members of Parliament from both parties declared themselves as independent members of parliament.
Lambriex is the policy advisor to Member of Parliament Akeem Arrindell, he was selected and vetted as the incoming Minister of TEATT after former Minister of TEATT Roger Lawrence fell ill and subsequently resigned Read more

PHILIPSBURG:--- The coalition of 8 has selected Leo Lambriex policy advisor to Member of Parliament Akeem Arrindell to take up the position as Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Traffic and Telecommunication (TEATT) that has been vacated by former minister Roger Lawrence in 2022 Read more

Los Parlamentarios De La Oposicin Se Sienten Silenciados Y Amordazados Por La Coalicin

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten Los miembros de la oposicin en el Parlamento (MP) dicen que ellos, y por extensin la gente de St. Maarten, estn siendo amordazados y silenciados en la legislatura.

Esta opinin fue expresada por varios parlamentarios, que organizaron una conferencia de prensa conjunta en la Cmara del Parlamento el mircoles. En la conferencia de prensa estuvieron los parlamentarios independientes Christophe Emmanuel, Ludmila de Weever y Grisha Heyliger-Marten y la parlamentaria de United Democrats (UD) Sarah Wescot-Williams.

Una de las formas en que se silencia a los parlamentarios es que no se cumplen las solicitudes de reuniones Read more

La Parlamentara Grisha Heyliger-Marten Es Despedida Como Presidenta Del Parlamento

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – El Parlamento de Sint Maarten se reuni en una reunin pblica urgente el jueves 27 de octubre.

El propsito de la reunin fue agradecer a la Presidenta del Parlamento por sus servicios y relevarla de sus funciones.

Este punto de la agenda fue solicitado por los miembros del Parlamento, a saber, William Mar Read more

Pop Job On The Line Again Next Week Thursday.

PHILIPSBURG:--- It seems that the current President of Parliament United Peoples(UP) Grisha Heyliger-Marten will have to deal with her job being on the line on Thursday, October 27. According to a schedule sent out by parliament on Friday, a public meeting will handle the agenda points, Incoming documents, Ratification of the decision list of the Interparliamentary Kingdom Consultations (IPKO) held from September 27-30, 2022 in the Hague, the Netherlands (IS/048/2022-2023 dated September 30, 2022) and Thank the Chair for her services thus far and relieve her from her duties (IS/026/2022-2023 dated September 20, 2022)
The latter agenda point was requested by MP W.V Read more

Brownbill And Arrindell Gives Coalition Partners A 6 For 9 When They Voted To Keep Grisha Heyliger Marten As Chair Of Parliament.

PHILIPSBURG:--- On Monday the two contentious members of parliament Akeem Arrindell and Chanell Brownbill that supports the coalition of eight stunned their colleague's members of parliament of the National Alliance and United Peoples Party when they voted against placing the agenda point to remove the chairlady of parliament Grisha Heyliger Marten from the chair.

15 members of parliament cast their vote to decide whether or not the agenda point will be added to Mondays public meeting, when the votes were cast, 9 voted against while 6 voted in favor Read more

El Parlamentario Akeem Arrindell Solicita La Atencin Del Ministro Egbert Doran

GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten - El Parlamentario Akeem Arrindell pregunt sobre la situacin actual en lo que respecta a la reparacin y repavimentacin de las calles. "A principios de ao, el parlamentario Brison y yo liberamos fondos adicionales del Presupuesto 2022 para ayudar al Ministerio de Vromi con fondos adicionales para las obras viales URGENTES que se realizarn" Read more

~ Brison unleashed the other side of the party scandal.~

PHILIPSBURG:--- Its been months now that it was rumored that there have been internal problems with the UPP Leader MP Rolando Brison and the wife of the party founder MP Grisha Marten Heyliger which today has tipped over in the public domain and have hindered civil servants that are eagerly awaiting the removal of the 12.5% cuts mandated by the Dutch Government.
On Tuesday Heyliger Marten took to the airwaves where she said that she would break her silence Read more

Lder De Up Destaca Desafos Enfrentados Con Presidenta Del Parlamento

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Durante la Reunin Pblica del Parlamento del 19 de septiembre de 2022, la presidenta del Parlamento, la diputada Grisha Heyliger-Marten, suspendi abruptamente la reunin, convocada para ratificar el pago de las vacaciones de los funcionarios pblicos y comenzar la eliminacin de los recortes del 12,5 % impuestos a los funcionarios pblicos.

La accin de la diputada Heyliger-Marten se produjo despus de enterarse de la propuesta para agradecerle por servir como presidenta y relevarla de sus funciones Read more

PHILIPSBURG:--- During today's Public Meeting of Parliament (Sept 19, 2022), President of Parliament MP Grisha Heyliger-Marten abruptly adjourned the meeting, convened to ratify the payment of civil servants' vacation pay, and begin the removal of the 12.5% cuts imposed on civil servants.

MP Heyliger-Marten's action came after learning of the proposal to thank her for serving as Chair and relieve her of her duties Read more

~ UPP Founder holding  MP Sidhardt Cookie Bijlani hostage to maintain his wife as chair of parliament.~

PHILIPSBURG:--- The coalition of 8 has selected the faction staff and policy advisor to Member of Parliament Akeem Arrindell to take up the position as Minister of TEATT that has been vacated by former Minister Roger Lawrence.
Lambriex is the son of Leo Chance former Manager of SEL Maduro and Sons who worked for several years at SEL Maduro and Sons and at Port of St Read more

Government Mum On Current Majority In Parliament.

PHILIPSBURG:--- Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs remains mum on the majority her government has in the Parliament of St. Maarten. The Prime Minister was asked on Wednesday about the possible fall of her government since former Minister and now Member of Parliament Ludmilla de Weever declared herself as an Independent Member of Parliament last week.

Jacobs said that the weekly press conference is not for political topics but said that her government does have a majority in parliament.
During the recess Leader of the United Peoples Party, Rolando Brison went ahead and seek the support of the two independent members of parliament Akeem Arrindell and Chanel Brownbill Read more

Doran Saved By Just One Vote, Continues As Minister Of Vromi

Minister of VROMI Egbert Doran hurries out of Parliament building after surviving a Vote of No Confidence thanks to votes in his favour from amongst others Independent MP Akeem Arrindell (bottom left) and National Alliance MP William Marlin (bottom right), who both came to the Public Meeting of Parliament in support of Doran.

PHILIPSBURGMinister of Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment and Infrastructure VROMI Egbert Doran (National Alliance) survived a Motion of No Confidence against him on Friday thanks to a decisive vote in his favour Read more

PHILIPSBURG:--- As the motion on no confidence facing the Minister of VROMI Egbert Jurendy Doran and the return of Member of Parliament William Marlin for the continuation of the meeting of parliament Read more

Mp Arrindel Busca Respuestas Relacionadas Con Los Desarrollos En Nv Gebe

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – El miembro del parlamento Akeem Arrindell expres sus preocupaciones al Honorable Ministro de VROMI Egbert Doran con respecto a los ltimos desarrollos y los problemas actuales en general en NV Gebe, dijo el jueves un comunicado de prensa del MP Arrindell.

Los planes de la compaa para avanzar en la prevencin de ataques como los recientes ataques cibernticos, si se han realizado actualizaciones hasta el momento para evitar que vuelvan a ocurrir, as como qu tan segura es la red en este momento, fueron algunas de las preguntas planteadas durante la sesin parlamentaria Read more

Mp Arrindell Addressing Minister Doran About Gebe

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — In a press release Independent Member of Parliament Akeem Arrindell brings his concerns to the Honorable Minister Doran in charge of VROMI in regards to latest developments, and ongoing issues overall at NV GEBE The company’s plans moving forward with prevention of attacks such as the recent Cyber Attacks, if any upgrades done thus far to prevent reoccurrence, as well as how secure is the network at this present time were some of the questions posed Read more

PHILIPSBURG:--- Member of Parliament Akeem Arrindell brings his concerns to the Honorable Minister Doran in charge of VROMI in regards to the latest developments, and ongoing issues overall at NV GEBE.

The company's plans moving forward with the prevention of attacks such as the recent Cyber Attacks, if any upgrades done thus far to prevent reoccurrence, as well as how secure is the network at this present time were some of the questions posed Read more

Mp Emmanuel: Brison Intenta Enturbiar El Agua Contra Buncamper

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – El miembro independiente del parlamento Christopher Emmanuel dijo el domingo que en algn momento la gente de St. Maarten tiene que ver cun peligroso es el diputado Rolando Brison para el pas, considerando la facilidad con la que usa a las personas y sus circunstancias para aferrarse al poder y la distorsin encubierta de un problema para influir en los resultados a su favor Read more

Mp Emmanuel: Brison Attempts To Muddy The Water Against Buncamper

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — Independent Member of Parliament Christopher Emmanuel on Sunday said that at some point in time the people of St. Maarten have to see how dangerous MP Rolando Brison is to the country, considering the ease with which he uses people and their circumstances to hold on to power and the underhanded twisting of an issue to influence outcomes in his favour Read more

Negotiations To Broaden Coalition Ongoing.

~ 4 MPS off-island signed prior to leaving. ~

PHILIPSBURG:--- Some members of parliament namely those from the current National Alliance and United Peoples Party (NA/UP) coalition continue to meet in order to strengthen their coalition after MP Solange Ludmilla Duncan resigned from the National Alliance.
The formation meetings began after an urgent meeting of parliament was called on Wednesday, June 29th, 2022, where the Minister of VROMI Egbert Jurendy Doran was invited to discuss the most recent report from the Ombudsman Read more

Other Mps Approached To Strengthen Coalition

PHILIPSBURG--The Leaders of the Coalition parties National Alliance (NA) and the United Peoples (UP) Party jointly announced on Saturday evening that they are exploring the option of "other members of Parliament (MPs)" to join the coalition.

  While the statement did not mention any names, there were unconfirmed reports on Thursday that independent MP Akeem Arrindell as well as Chanel Brownbill have been approached Read more