GEBE not paying for Minister’s ticket.
PHILIPSBURG:--- The Minister of VROMI who is also responsible for Government owned company GEBE Claret Connor is expected to travel to the Dominican Republic this weekend with a delegation from GEBE. According to information provided to SMN News GEBE was invited by Watsilla to travel to the Dominican Republic on a fact-finding mission on the waste to energy plant. The source said that the last time the Minister of VROMI travelled to Miami with GEBE the government owned company paid his expenses with the intention that government will reimburse them for all expenses the company endured for the Minister. However, GEBE supervisory board made clear that the government owned company will not be footing any bills and or travel expenses for a Minister who got a motion of no confidence and should not have been in office today.
It is not clear if the Gumbs cabinet will use tax payer’s monies to send the Minister abroad while there is political debacle on the island. “One political pundit said if anyone in government chose to use the tax payers monies to send Ministers that got a motion of no confidence on trips then these persons including civil servants and the Minister himself should be prepared to pay back the monies or face the court of law.”
Besides that some well-known persons on St. Maarten including friends of the Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson contacted SMN News stating that they are extremely disappointed in their friend’s behavior especially since they know that he knows better and worked on the constitution of St. Maarten.
“We are his friends, we expect better from him, we know he knows better, but it comes to the point where we will have to take his skeletons out of the closets in order for him to respect the country he is supposed to represent then we will do just that. Friends should be able to tell their friends where they are going wrong and we personally spoke to our friend Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson who neglected the Ministry of Justice to fill in for the Prime Minister when fighting the Dutch and today the people of St. Maarten are suffering because of the escalating crime rate.” Recently we told the Minister of Justice that he is arrogance is putting St. Maarten on the world map, we also told him that at his age he needs to go home and spend time with his family instead of trying to strong arm the governor or anyone else just to be able to stay in office. “We are sending a sound warning to the present Council of Ministers to take heed, do what they need to do now and do not allow the people of this country to take the law in their own hands because of eight greedy and selfish people.”
