PHILIPSBURG: --- Four Members from the Council of Ministers namely, Wycliffe Smith, Stuart Johnson, Miklos Giterson and Perry Geerlings voted in favor of removing two members of the Supervisory Board of the St. Maarten Harbor Group of Companies (SMHGC) they are Chairman Fernando Williams and Lloyd Paul.
SMN News learned the four Ministers attended the COM meeting on Thursday and voted unanimously in favor of removing the Lloyd Paul and Fernando Williams from the board.
The remaining members are Charles Thomas, Attorney at Law Shaira Bommel and Chris Weever, it is further understood that Bommel was appointed Chairman of the board while the incoming member is Emilio Kalmeria.
It should be noted that the former Members of the Supervisory Board left when Government failed to appoint new members since their tenor on the board had expired. Williams was appointed in August 2017.
Since the appointment of the current Supervisory Board members SMN News understands that the Supervisory Board have been demanding that the current management team give full accountability for the decisions taken by them while they were trying to clean up the mismanagement done by the current management and former members of the management team that have been suspended since the criminal investigations started at the St. Maarten Harbor Group of Companies.
Sources say that the current Council of Ministers are not happy since they are not allowed to dip their hands in the funds at SMHGC for their pet projects.
It is also not clear if the COM followed procedures to dismiss the two members of the Supervisory Board and if they sought advice from the Corporate Governance Council.
