St. Maarten: Jacobs asks Rutte to intervene, address ‘unnecessary delays’ for liquidity support
PHILIPSBURG - Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs has asked Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte to intervene and address “unnecessary delays” holding up the provision of the NAf. 39 million fifth tranche of liquidity support for St. Maarten.
To date, the loan agreement that Finance Minister Ardwell Irion is required to sign so that the liquidity support can be released, has not yet been sent to St. Maarten despite the signing of the implementation agenda on April 26, and repeated requests from St. Maarten for it to be sent.
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Published: 12 March 2021
SABA: - The Public Entity Saba receives a one-time amount of US $1 million from the Dutch Government. State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops wants to add the monies in 2021 to the free allowance, allowing Saba to take its own decision on how to spend these funds, he informed the local government in a letter on Friday, March 12.
State Secretary Knops: “I have been consulting with the Saba Executive Council for a while about the height of the free allowance and the shortage of structural means. Saba has in the past years shown that it has its financial management and the rightful spending of means. With this contribution, I want to accommodate Saba.”
Kralendijk, Bonaire
THE HAGUE The Dutch government last week decided to again extend the economic support and recovery package for Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. The measures of the so-called emergency package 4.0 for the Caribbean Netherlands will be valid until mid-2021.
In a letter he sent to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament last Friday, State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops explained that extending the package for the three islands was justified.
“The current economic situation of the Caribbean Netherlands remains worrisome,” he stated, noting that the strict measures for incoming traffic combined with the worldwide strong decrease of travel movements resulted in merely a fraction of the regular number of tourists visiting the islands.