EDF Funding to Significantly Improve Dutch Quarter Area. Subsequent Funding to Tackle Waste Management
PHILIPSBURG:--- The Prime Minister of St. Maarten the Honorable Sarah Wescot-Williams will be heading into the community of Dutch Quarter to give residents information on the 11 EDF recently signed into effect by the PM during her working visit to Europe last November. The Town Hall meeting will be hosted by the Prime Minister at the Dutch Quarter Community Center on Sunday, March 4th starting at six thirty in the evening.
During her working visit to the Netherlands and Belgium the Prime Minister of St. Maarten the Honorable Sarah Wescot-Williams signed into effect the tenth European Development Fund (EDF) project for the wide scale infrastructural upgrading of the Dutch Quarter District in Brussels on Friday. The Prime Minister, as Territorial Authorizing Officer, has been engaged in wide scale negotiations with the European Union to fund the improvement of the Dutch Quarter District, which will greatly enhance the infrastructure and social upgrading of the area. The European Union will provide 4.750.000 Euro for the project. "After lengthy negotiations and discussions we have successfully managed to sign the funding agreement with the European Union for the upgrading of the Dutch Quarter District. With the signing of the European Development Fund agreement St. Maarten will be expected to manage its own 10th EDF execution with as mentioned the designated project being the upgrading of Dutch Quarter. The management structure that will be put in place is a critical component to ensure that the project is executed within the parameters and guidelines of European funding. In order to inform the community of the project I will therefore be heading into the Dutch Quarter community to give an explanation regarding the upgrading of this very important district," stated the PM.
The execution of the 10th EDF will include the upgrading of the main roads, side roads, drainage system, lighting, sidewalk construction, the expansion and the upgrading of the sewer network and the building of a thousand cubic meter drinking water tank. The projects will work very closely with the Dutch Quarter Community Help Desk.
The Prime Minister also stated that Government will also be applying for European Funding for various projects centered on waste management: We will also be applying for funding centered on waste management and solving the issue of the Philipsburg Landfill.
From the Cabinet of the Prime Minister
