PHILIPSBURG:--- Prime Minister Marcel Gumbs and Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson met with Parliament's Permanent Committee for Inter-Parliamentary Affairs and Kingdom Relations in Parliament House on Friday morning. The meeting was called on the request of the Prime Minister to brief the committee on the current state of affairs with the integrity issue between St. Maarten and the Kingdom Government, in preparation for the IPOK (Inter-Parliamentary Affairs Contact Meeting) in Aruba from January 6 to 9. Pictured from left: Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Joe Richardson, Minister Dennis Richardson, PM Marcel Gumbs, Secretary General of the Ministry of General Affairs Hensley Plantijn and Chef de Cabinet of the Prime Minister Julien Larmonie.