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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
                                                                              Continued on page 4
    FAKE
                                                                                           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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