Maria says jumping ship
reports are ‘rumours’
Stop petty internal fights, says PPA ~
PHILIPSBURG--Information from three different sources reaching The Daily Herald for more than a week now indicates that there has been a major tumult within the Democratic Party (DP) concerning the position of Chairwoman of the Central Committee and Member of Parliament Maria Buncamper-Molanus.
When asked last Sunday for a comment about this information Buncamper-Molanus said it was all “rumours” and she would not comment on rumours. She said she would continue carrying out her tasks as representative of the people in the Island Council and Parliament.
Information leaked to the press indicated that the “problems” had started after Claudius Buncamper wasn’t appointed Environmental Development and Property Management ROB sector director and that he had threatened to leave the DP. In a reaction Buncamper told The Daily Herald that those were rumours and that none of them were true.
The rumours also reached the People’s Progressive Alliance (PPA). Party leader and Island Council member Gracita Arrindell said, “It’s time for the Democratic Party (DP) to stop all of its petty internal fights about who can get which Government jobs and focus on securing the new constitutional status for our people.”
She said the people’s business had again been put on the sidelines, as was usually the case with the DP Government, while the DP Commissioners fought about who should or could be the sector director of ROB.
“While Commissioner Roy Marlin made public his recent appointment of the new sector director, which includes the Public Works Department, it appears that the spouse of another DP elected official thinks he was promised the job and apparently threatened to leave the DP, and if he leaves the DP his spouse may also leave the party.”
Arrindell contended further that “the petty bickering and selling of jobs for political and party support has to stop on St. Maarten.”
“We ask the DP to come clean and disclose whether it is considering making changes to any of the persons recently appointed to head the sectors in the island administration. If so, the PPA would like to know why the sudden change and whether the change is based on the threat that one of your elected party members will leave the DP if the spouse is not appointed to head the ROB sector,” Arrindell said.
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