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Frans Out Run Samuel by one Vote ---Candidates Ready for Parliamentary Elections.
SMNN - Dutch Quarter: --- The National Alliance has elected a new board, while most of the members on the board has changed party leader William Marlin remained unchallenged. Marlin told reporters that the post for vice president was a close call and that commissioner Frans Richardson out run Senator Rudolph Samuel by one vote to secure the seat of vice president. Marlin said this shows that there is democracy and most importantly that the supporters of National Alliance embraced all their candidates. The three candidates that postulated for the vice president seat were Senator George Pantophlet 37 votes, Frans Richardson (39) and Rudolph Samuel (39) due to the run off a second round of election had to be held between Samuel and Richardson.
DP begins Campaign on Floor of Island Council says Samuel.
SMNN - Philipsburg: --- Island Councilman Rudolphe Samuel, a member of the National Alliance declared that the Democratic Party has begun their election campaign on the floor of the island council on Monday. Samuel said when he listened to what the current opposition had to say and the questions they posed it is clear to him that they begin campaigning for the January 22 2010 elections.
The island councilman said that it seems as if the Democratic Party had to be placed in the opposition benches so that they could hear the cries of the people. He felt it is good for politicians to be on both sides of the isle since it is only then they can get the true feelings from the man in the street. He said when the Democratic Party was in government for at least 10 years the voice of the man of street could not be heard.
National Alliance party council to meet this weekend
PHILIPSBURG - The spirit of the National Alliance that was rekindled during the Retreat last Saturday, has prompted the president of the interim board, Mr. Dexter Doncher, to call the Party council together for deliberations on the recent decision by Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles Emily de Jong Elhage, that Parliamentary elections will be held in 2010. It is a decision that has serious consequences for the proper, timely and expedient preparations for country Saint Martin. [More....]
Councilman Samuel questions the need for tweaking the labour policy in accordance with the MOU
PHILIPSBURG - Councilman Senator Rudolf Samuel questioned the benefits for locals of the new labour policy on St. Maarten. He first questioned who was the Commissioner of Labour when this permit was enacted? The reason I ask this he stated is based on what I am hearing today. If this is a foreign work permit policy that is to benefit the locals, then somewhere you must have a chapter geared towards benefiting locals he stated. [More....]
