Philipsburg:--- Members of Parliament and employees who are currently working at the new parliament building (the former Caribbean Palm building) are continuing to experience power outages due to short circuits. On Monday, the lights in the Parliament building were going on and off when wires coming from the GEBE electrical meter to the building began over-heating.Workers from GEBE were seen at the location sometime after they were informed that one of the fuses had blown.
SMN News witnessed two civil servants who are not electricians trying to locate the blown fuse because the National Alliance and the St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association were having a meeting at the time of the power outage.
Minister of Public Works Theo Heyliger told SMN News previously in an interview that the owner of the building did not have a building permit and as such GEBE will not change the wires and meter to accommodate the adjustments that were made to the building. It should be noted that the fire department wanted to prevent the opening of the Parliament Building because they said the building did not meet the fire regulations on St. Maarten.
