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~ Police officer also arrested ~
PHILIPSBURG--United St. vestigation. den was searched in the presence
Maarten Party (US Party) Mem- Brownbill and the other suspects of an investigating judge.
ber of Parliament (MP) Chanel in the case are suspected of forg- The French authorities also
Brownbill was detained by au- ery and tax evasion, according to searched a house in the French
thorities on Wednesday morning the Prosecutor’s press release on Quarter district. Documents, re-
along with two other suspects in Wednesday following the arrests. cords and digital data carriers,
connection with the Emerald in- The MP’s home in Sucker Gar- among other things, were seized.
These are all premises the in-
vestigators had not previously Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the conservative VVD party ap-
searched. pears before party supporters in The Hague. (Reuters photo)
Police officer Akeem Arrindell,
who is the brother of Checkmate
Security owner O’Neal Arrin-
dell, was arrested by the special
investigating team on Wednes-
PHILIPSBURG--The St. Maarten to Plasterk’s letter regarding the day morning. S.W., a manager at
Government has shown the will- appointment of Leijtens in January
ingness to stick to agreements re- this year and St. Maarten’s stance Checkmate Security, was also de- ~ PvdA suffers dramatic loss ~
tained by officers.
garding the execution of the three on the establishing of the Integrity THE HAGUE--The Netherlands’ tion on Wednesday, offering huge
integrity reports that were drafted Chamber. The Prosecutor’s Office did not
want to go into details on Brown- centre-right Prime Minister Mark relief to other EU governments
in the past. The appointment by Marlin stated that his Govern-
the Dutch Government of Hans ment was “surprised” by the unilat- bill’s arrest. The writing seemed Rutte was on course for a re- facing a wave of nationalism.
Leijtens as quartermaster for the eral move of The Hague to appoint to have been on the wall since sounding victory over anti-Islam “It appears that the VVD will be
St. Maarten Integrity Chamber was the quartermaster to prepare the members of the Kingdom De- and anti-European Union (EU) the biggest party in the Nether-
not in conformity with the agree- Continued on page 9 Continued on page 8 Geert Wilders in the general elec- lands for the third time in a row,”
ments. a beaming Rutte told cheering
St. Maarten Prime Minister Wil- supporters at a post-election par-
liam Marlin stated this in a letter ty in The Hague. “Tonight we’ll
that he recently sent to Dutch Min- celebrate a little.”
ister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Rutte received congratulatory
Relations Ronald Plasterk. Mar- PHILIPSBURG--St. Maarten Prime Minister Mark Rutte got the VVD earned 31 votes. Of those messages from European lead-
lin’s letter was written in response
residents with the right to vote in most votes here. votes, Rutte received 16 personal ers and spoke with some by tele-
IN BRIEF the Dutch Elections moved to the Support from radical anti-im- votes. phone.
“It is also an evening in which
centre on Wednesday and gave migrant politician Geert Wilders’ Groen Links of Jesse Klaver cap-
Airport Alexander Pechtold’s Democrats PVV was low at only six votes. All tured 21 votes to become the third the Netherlands, after Brexit, af-
66 (D66) the majority of the votes. those ballots were cast for Wilders. highest vote-getter after D66 and ter the American elections, said
SXM MUSIC This is a change from 2012 when D66 received 42 votes with Pech- VVD. Klaver earned 12 personal ‘stop’ to the wrong kind of popu-
conservative VVD of incumbent told earning 31 of those as personal votes.
FESTIVAL lism,” he said.
Princess Juliana International Airport votes. Eighteen votes went to the Labour Party for Freedom PVV leader
SXM saw the first wave of music fes- Party PvdA of Lodewijk Asscher. Wilders said he had not achieved
tival lovers hyped and excited for the He received nine personal votes.
second annual SXM Music Festival Christian Democratic Appeal the electoral victory he had hoped
presently going on until this Sunday. (CDA) of Sybrand van Haersma for and was ready to offer tough
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Buma got nine votes.
Emile Roemer’s Socialist Party “I would rather have been the
Philipsburg largest party … but we are not
(SP) received seven votes.
a party that has lost. We gained
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seats. That’s a result to be proud
of,” Wilder told journalists.
BILLS
F.F.F.A (34) and A.L. (30) were ar-
rested on Monday for possession of Continued on page 10
counterfeit US dollar bills. Page 7.
Willemstad
INSELAIR TO
DISMISS 250
InselAir on Wednesday sent out dis-
missal letters for some 250 employ-
ees as a result of the ongoing crisis
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