PHILIPSBURG:--- SMN News learnt that the Leader of the United Peoples Party Theodore Heyliger has given interim Minister of VROMI Marcel Gumbs the green light to sign off on the building permits for Taliesin Construction in order for the company to finalize the Fixed Based Operations (FBO) project at the Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIAE). According to an UPP insider the party leader has decided to sign off on the pending permits because MP Matser have been behind the interim Minister of VROMI to sign off on the permits but the Minister allegedly said that the only way those permits will be signed is if MP Heyliger approves them.
SMN News learnt that MP Matser have been going after his party leader and the Prime Minister he "Heyliger" appointed to sign off several building permits that they have held up because several persons on St. Maarten are without work.
On Thursday the coalition partners met and it was decided that the interim Minister of VROMI should sign off on the permits if they have to keep the current government in place.
While Taliesin Construction won the bid at PJIAE in which five companies participated, other construction companies have decided that they will challenge the bidding process because they said the owner of Taliesin Construction has a child with a sister of the Managing Director of PJIAE and therefore the bidding process was not free and fair but was granted to someone that has relations with the managing director of PJIAE.
