Published: 16 December 2020
~Meeting to be held on St. Maarten on December 18th~
PHILIPSBURG: - Prime Minister of St. Maarten Silveria Jacobs announced on Wednesday during the Council of Ministers press briefing that she received confirmation from the Dutch Government on Wednesday informing her that the Kingdom partners have accepted the declaration made by the majority of parliament on Monday, giving the Prime Minister the permission to go ahead and sign the agreement along with accepting the law to establish the COHO on St. Maarten.
Jacobs said the Kingdom partners will be in St. Maarten for the meeting scheduled for December 18th where all four Kingdom partners, namely the Netherlands, Curacao, Aruba, and St. Maarten will officially sign the agreement before they can obtain further liquidity support.
Published: 14 December 2020
~ Receives support from the majority of Parliament ~
PHILIPSBURG: -Today, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs updated the Parliament of St. Maarten on the outcome of the negotiations with the Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) surrounding the third tranche of liquidity support to gain the level of support needed to be able to proceed. Over the past six weeks, St. Maarten’s negotiation team has been in discussions with BZK in order to come to agreements on the third tranche of liquidity support. These negotiations mainly included agreements on the structural reform packages where there were possibilities for improving the administrative branch and the country as a whole. St. Maarten’s concerns were thoroughly addressed and discussed and as such, the negotiations have come to an end for the 3rd tranche of liquidity support.