SMN News was provided with information that showed that Aventurin even advised the former Education Minister to fire the persons that were responsible for the students studying in Curacao and Tallahassee when the students contacted the media and said they were not given any type of assistance by the persons that government hired to guide them. However, the study financing head did not recruit or provide the former Minister with an advice to refill the positions leaving the St. Maarten students on Curacao and Tallahassee now without guidance.
While the Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture Silveria Jacobs told reporters that Aventurin will be working with her in her cabinet and has been working with her since she took office, Aventurin is yet to resign from his position as Head of the Study Financing Department. Minister Jacobs confirmed on Wednesday during the Council of Ministers' press briefing that Aventurin did not turn in his resignation as yet because "certain" things had to be done first. The Minister gave no information regarding who will be replacing him in the department.
The Minister also told reporters that the Appeals Committee is still busy reviewing the appeals and she does not know the exact number of students that will be traveling on July 29th to the Netherlands. She also confirmed that as Minister of Education she and Antonio Aventurin will be accompanying the students on their trip.
