MARIGOT:--- Members of the Territorial Council and their counterparts from Country Sint Maarten held a joint cooperation meeting in the Hotel de La Collectivité Tuesday morning.
This was the first cooperation meeting held between the two sides of the island since President Alain Richardson and his majority RRR party took office. A press release from the Collectivité's communication department states that the meeting held on Tuesday was to set priorities of cooperation for the year 2013. Some of the areas the two sides will work closely on are Security, transport, infrastructure, sustainable development, social affairs, health, education, training, economic affairs (including tourism) are the main themes under which public works, road networks, traffic circulation, social security, health, education (notably the problem of children leaving school early) were highlighted according to a release from the Collectivité.
The next cooperation meeting will be held on Friday December 7 with the respective government officials from both sides, and will also include State representatives from the Préfecture as per the Tripartite agreement.
