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Exco treading on thin ice
PHILIPSBURG - Former Finance Commissioner, Councilman Roy Marlin, responded over the weekend to last week's press conference on the CFT by current Commissioner Xavier Blackman. In his response the councilman stated that; the Commissioner of Finance on behalf of the Executive Council of St. Maarten tried last week in his press conference to appease the people of St. Maarten, that the Cft is just an advisory body and that the Executive Council has no obligation to follow the advice of the Cft .[More....]
Councilman Marlin questions EXCO Chairman on cost of living adjustment
PHILIPSBURG - Former Commissioner of personnel Roy Marlin, has sent a letter to the Chairman of the Executive Council Lt. Governor Franklyn Richards. In the letter the Councilman is requesting information on the payment of the cost of living adjustment to civil servants and teachers, which should have taken place by the end January 2010.[More....]
Marlin wonders when budget will be debated
The Daily Herald - PHILIPSBURG--Democratic Party (DP) Councilman Roy Marlin on Sunday said it was “a shame” that the government of St. Maarten will be going into 2010 without an approved budget.
Marlin said for all the talk of the National Alliance-led government about how crucial a year 2010 will be for the island and its people, having no budget “gives kingdom partners more opportunities to put St. Maarten in the light of not being ready for constitutional change.”
Sonesta Maho says Govt reneged on its commitment, failed resort
The Daily Herald - MAHO--Sonesta Maho Resort, in a corporate statement on Wednesday, said government had failed the resort in its assurances to make changes to the Room Tax Ordinance over the past six years.
It said it was troubling when investors in the island, whether Sonesta Resort or Westin, could not depend on or trust commitments made by the Executive Council and promulgated by the Lt. Governor and the Island Secretary.
Roy says e-mail to put ordinance on hold ‘totally misinterpreted’
PHILIPSBURG--The Daily Herald received an e-mail Wednesday containing a memo (dated May 20) which apparently indicated that former Commissioner Roy Marlin had instructed the Legal Affairs Department (via e-mail) to put the revision of the island ordinance regulating room tax on hold because of the negative economic situation of the island and citing government’s “need” for the tax revenues. Marlin apparently sent this instruction via e-mail to the Legal Affairs department sometime in early 2009. P> When contacted, Marlin immediately provided clarification, stating that the e-mail in question had been totally misinterpreted and that it was quite obvious that certain persons were trying to paint a picture with no facts or with elaboration or claims that couldn’t be substantiated. [More....]
Roy Marlin submits letter awaiting response from Island Council & Frans Richardson
Pearl FM - The following is a letter submitted by Roy Marlin Thursday December 17th 2009, to the Chairman of the Island Council requesting the legal advice which Commissioner Frans Richardson referred to Wednesday December 16th 2009, as the basis for not being able to support the DP motion.
Frans says Roy is continuing to embarrass himself, St. Maarten
The Daily Herald - ~ Says Maho has same issue as Westin ~
PHILIPSBURG--Commissioner of Tourism Frans Richardson has chided DP Councilman Roy Marlin for “embarrassing himself and St. Maarten” in his continuous sad display of lack of responsibility in The Westin St. Maarten Dawn Beach Resort and Spa saga.
While accepting the fact that government will now have to “clean up the mess” left behind by the DP government, Richardson said it was unconscionable that Marlin “had the audacity to throw civil servants under the bus” and blame them for his lack of follow-up.
"We are Not Scapegoats" ---Civil Servants ----Island Councilman Should Dance to the music.
SMNN -
Philipsburg: --- Several civil servants working for the island government of St. Maarten are angry at a newspaper article that appeared in the Daily Herald on Tuesday accusing them of not amending the room tax ordinance. The civil servants who spoke to SMN News on the condition of anonymity said that they are not scapegoats and politicians should not use them for their own political mileage or to their benefit. The civil servants contested the contents of the article by providing SMN News with the decision taken by the Democratic Party executive council on January 22 2009 to deny Westin and Sonesta Maho of the room tax waiver they promised them some four years ago. They also provided SMN News with copies of the letters sent to the resort on June 30th 2009 saying that Marlin should dance to the music and not blame them since they did not run for office. "On several occasions the elected would ask civil servants to do the impossible even though they know we can go to prison for not following the law." [More....]
DP Executive Council took decision on Westin room tax in January 09
SXM Island Times - PHILIPSBURG - On the 22nd of January 2009 during a meeting of the Executive Council, a decision was taken to decline the request by Westin for exemption from room tax based on the existing room tax ordinance.
During that same meeting the decision was also taken to also decline the request of Resort of the World's for room tax exemption also based on the Room Tax Ordinance.
Westin's Comfort Revisited
For regular readers or SXM PE it is no secret that I have a very poor opinion of Roy Marlin, between 'Respect' and 'Contempt' I most certainly lean towards the latter, with some scorn and disgust thrown in for good measure. To my mind, the only people that would vote for him are either paid off or just plain ignorant and stupid, yes that's right, if you are considering voting for this man then you are a (expletive) idiot.
So much of what is wrong with, and in, St. Maarten can be placed firmly and confidently at his doorstep, from our lack of a sewage infrastructure, the power outages, garbage treatment to the mess at VROM and ROB. It was Roy who as head of these departments who said during the Dawn Beach story that Permits are 'frivolous details', sending a message to all developers and setting the stage for the incompetence, mismanagement and possible fraud and corruption detailed in the SOAB report.
Let's have a look at the Comfort Letter to Westin from March 2005.
