Prime Minister allegedly lied to Parliament when he said he could not obtain documents -- Reliable Sources.
PHILIPSBURG:--- As the scandals at GEBE continues to surface SMN News managed to obtain some of the checks that were paid out to the owner of St. Maarten Service Provider Alfred Harley a former journalist on St. Maarten and former representative of UTS-St. Kitts and also the former executive director of SHTA (St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association.)
Harley told the newspaper he once worked for that he never collected any monies from GEBE however the checks written out to St. Maarten Service Provider is proof that Harley lied to his former bosses and colleagues.
SMN News learnt from well-placed sources at GEBE that Harley was brought in to write one press release on the fuel clause but he ended up with a five year contract. The source said that Harley did not even know how to fully prepare that press release and at least one member of the Supervisory Board had to correct him on it. The source said that the Supervisory Board had no knowledge that Harley had obtained a five year contract from the government owned company and they only heard of it when a ‘whistle blower” within the company alerted one board member of the checks that were being given to St. Maarten Service Provider.
The source at GEBE said that even though St. Maarten Service Provider was paid huge sums of monies the moment they submit an invoice no actual work was delivered to the Government owned company. Further to that the source said that Harley collected $126,000.00 from GEBE started in January 2015 while the last check of $68,000.00 was canceled by the board. The source said that GEBE Supervisory board are busy combing through their files to find two other checks they heard were written out to St. Maarten Service Provider after the last one was canceled, but so far they cannot find it.
One of the things the source said is that the Prime Minister of St. Maarten Marcel Gumbs allegedly lied to Parliament when he told them in a letter that he could not get documents from the Supervisory Board of Directors to deliver to Parliament. The source said that the shareholder representative (Prime Minister Marcel Gumbs) did not request any documents from the Supervisory board.
The source further explained that soon enough the Prime Minister may have to go to court and exonerate himself just like he did in 1991 when he exonerated himself when he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Princess Juliana International Airport. The source alleged that the Prime Minister had to exonerate himself against the late Claude Wathey and Al Wathey in the PJIAE court case if not he would have been condemned. “It seems as though the Prime Minister is paying back the Wathey’s for what he did in 1991 at PJIAE but he should be prepared to go to court and again exonerate himself but this time he will have to say who he is protecting in the GEBE scandal.”
Click here to view copies of the checks paid out to St. Maarten Service Provider
Click here to read contract and service agreement given to St. Maarten Service Provider.
