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8 Islands THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, March 16, 2017

PHILIPSBURG--As re- and enthusiasm throughout ance. At the moment, each of compliance.
ported in The Daily Herald the day. Lee said, “We did the Departments involved is Minister Lee urged the
on Saturday, March 11, a not close any businesses. If busy processing the informa- business community to be-
multi-disciplinary control a large percentage of the tion gathered on Friday and come familiar with the laws
was conducted last Friday by people operating within the conducting further investiga- and become ready with what
Ministry of Public Health, business are undocumented tions where necessary. is expected to be on site if an
Social Development and and not permitted to work, This newspaper under- inspector were to approach a
Labour VSA inspectors with the possible consequences stands that hotels will also business. Get things in order,
the assistance of Ministry are that the business may de- be part of the controls, but as these controls will only
of Finance Tax Inspectors, cide to close because it does resort managements were increase, he said. Be proac-
Ministry of Justice Immigra- not have the manpower to vocal on social media and tive about ensuring that all
tion Officers and Social and continue its operations, but expressed concern that Min- documentation is in place
Health Insurance SZV rep- that is their decision.” ister Lee as an hotel owner is even though the employees Finance Ministers Richard Gibson Sr. (St. Maarten) and
resentatives. All controls were carried part of the inspection team. are being hired through a job Kenneth Gijsbertha (Curaçao) met on Monday to discuss
Minister of Labour Emil out in a professional and Lee stated since the incep- placement agency. matters that affect the monetary union. The retirement and
Lee commended the team friendly manner. tion of the controls that he The VSA Ministry has de- replacement of two managing directors of the Central Bank
who carried out the inspec- Government remains com- will not always be present at veloped a compliance guide of Curaçao and St. Maarten (CBCS), the de-risking trends
tions for their hard work mitted to improving compli- the controls. to begin to educate the pub- within financial institutions, the division of assets of the
The different Ministers lic about employees’ rights
former Netherlands Antilles, St. Maarten and Curaçao’s
will meet next week to have and obligations as well as possible participation with the pilot project organised by
a debriefing session with the those of the employers, par- the United States and the upcoming Inter-Monetary Fund
inspectors, the Minister of ticularly as it pertains to fol-
(IMF) Meeting in Washington D.C., set for April were dis-
Finance and any other Min- lowing the laws of the land
cussed by the Ministers. The meeting also centred on the
isters who are interested in and what documents and pa-
MARIGOT--A 19-year-old charter boat captain from the joining. The results of the perwork must be in order be- plan of approach to finalise and address other pending
Grenadines drowned on Tuesday afternoon while on a char- simple one-day exercise will fore conducting business on matters and to ascertain a continued working relationship
ter in the bay of Grand Case with six American tourists. be evaluated at this debrief- the Dutch side. These com- between the Governments.
The tourist group was at Creole Rock snorkelling. Appar- ing and the team will deter- pliance guides are available
ently the skipper dove into the water to join the group but mine what kind of structural online at www.ministryvsa.
never surfaced the Gendarmerie’s Capitaine Régis Turlan changes can be instituted sx . MP Brownbill arrested
Arto explained. across Ministries to improve
His body was recovered and brought to the jetty on Grand Continued from page 1.
Case Beach by boat where medics spent a long time perform- tective Cooperation Team
ing cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to no avail. A doc- RST tried to interview
tor on the scene concluded it was an accidental drowning.
Brownbill on December 12,
2016. “Members of the An-
ti-Corruption Task Force
TBO/RST went to the Par-
liament Building to make
an appointment with a
person to be heard as a wit-
ness in an ongoing investi-
gation,” was the statement
given by the TBO team last
year.
One of the victims who suffered multiple gunshot wounds A total of seven premises,
during an assault on Tuesday evening passed away in the
including the house of sus-
early hours of the morning at the St. Maarten Medical Cen- pect Checkmate Security
ter (SMMC) Intensive Care Unit. The deceased was identi- owner O’Neal Arrindell,
fied as Nino Thewet. The other victim is still alive and con- the Port St. Maarten offices Chanel Brownbill
tinues to be monitored by doctors. Two masked gunmen and the Checkmate offices held in pre-trial detention
stormed into a car wash in Sucker Garden and opened fire were searched on Novem- for several weeks before
just after 10:00pm Tuesday, resulting in two victims fight- ber 28, 2016, in connection being released by the Pros-
ing for their lives in SMMC while the gunmen are at large. with this same investiga- ecutor’s Office, which still
Thewet is the fourth murder victim for 2017. tion. O’Neal Arrindell was considers him a suspect.