Former Board Members cannot postulate until investigation is completed
PHILIPSBURG:--- Members of the Dutch Taxi Drivers Association (DSTA) will be holding an election Monday evening at the PMIA Hall on Back Street. The election came after almost 100 DSTA members gave a motion of non confidence against the entire DSTA board last week Monday. The DSTA members said that on Monday they intend to present a motion to bar all former board members of the DSTA from postulating because there is gross financial mismanagement that has to be investigated by police when they file an official complaint and a committee that will be installed by the new board.
One of the main reasons the members of the DSTA took action last Monday night was because they obtained the chamber registration of a company called AMIGO Tours that is registered in the name of the ousted DSTA president Otis Hughes and a former secretary of the DSTA Rigoberto Gumbs. The DSTA members said that Hughes was using his position as president of the DSTA to enrich himself by taking jobs that are entitled to taxi drivers and passing them on to his tour company.
Another set of taxi drivers also told SMN News that the former board of the DSTA took monies from them as extra-ordinary members and promised to call them for jobs, but while they were paying and hoped that one day they will start obtaining work from the DSTA they never got work and they were not refunded.
Last Tuesday a member of the DSTA called police when the former board refused to hand over the keys and to the interim board that was established Monday night. They said when police reached the scene they forced the former board members to open the office and safe and police discovered some $27,000 inside a safe. The drivers said that the police spent almost three hours counting the monies and made sure it was deposited in the DSTA account. The taxi drivers said that since the former board will be investigated they believe that none of the members could postulate for the next three years and even until they investigation is completed.