EXCLUSIVE: Head of Voting Bureau Nathalie Tackling to be the next Justice Minister.

PHILIPSBURG: --- Nathalie Tackling, head of the Voting Bureau, has accepted the offer granted by the board of the Soualiga Action Movement (SAM) to be the next Minister of Justice.
SAM leader Franklin Meyers confirmed to SMN News on Sunday that Tackling has accepted the offer his political party presented to her. Meyers made the announcement to the SAM board and the candidates who postulated themselves on the SAM slate for the August 19th snap elections.
Background information on Nathalie Tackling is taken from her LinkedIn profile below.
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EXCLUSIVE: Coalition Accord signed by four political parties, nine seat majority.

~ Mercelina 2 cabinet looks more like a Gumbs cabinet, with three ministers bearing the surname Gumbs. ~

PHILIPSBURG: --- Prime Minister Dr. Luc Mercelina, representing the Unified Resilient St. Maarten Movement (URSM), Sarah Wescot Williams from the Democratic Party (DP), Melissa Gumbs from the Party for Progress (PFP), and Franklin Meyers from the Soualiga Action Movement (SAM), all signed the coalition accord on Friday afternoon along with their respective Members of Parliament Elect.

The signed accord and the list of candidates for the Mercel...

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Governor Baly appoints Mr. L.F.E. Mercelina as Formateur.

HARBOUR VIEW, PHILIPSBURG:--- Considering the results of the August 19, 2024 elections, consultations held with the political leaders of all seven political parties that have succeeded in gaining at least one seat and in taking due account of the four parties that signed the declaration of intent to form a coalition on Thursday, August 22, 2024, namely the SAM, the PFP, the DP and the URSM, His Excellency Governor Ajamu G. Baly, LL.M. has requested the leader of the URSM, Mr. Luc Mercelina, to take into consideration an assignment as Formateur....

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Trust Fund Support Enables NRPB Progress in Livelihood Restoration Plan.

PHILIPSBURG:---  The National Recovery Program Bureau (NRPB) has made further progress in supporting the lives of the resettled Pond Island community that previously lived adjacent to St. Maarten’s Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Site, the landfill. Several former residents of Pond Island have completed a course under the Livelihood Restoration Plan (LRP), which supports those who were relocated to ensure their livelihoods would not be negatively impacted by the Emergency Debris Management Project (EDMP); the project tasked with making crit...

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