Philipsburg: --- Leader of Government Sarah Wescot Williams in an effort to clear the air and to put all speculations to rest said that the political crisis which took place last week when the Democratic Party government fell gave the commissioners an opportunity to clean out their offices.
Wescot Williams walked with a stack of papers which had on the government logo to show the media that the commissioners get an amount of documents which is piled up in their offices. She said that the original and official copies of government documents can be found in the general archives downstairs of the government administrative building. "Commissioners get copies of the agenda on a weekly basis, one could imagine in a few weeks time how much of these documents are in our offices. And if one does not have a majority backed government then basically you have no support for the executive council then these papers are what have to be cleaned out." Wescot Williams said.
Last week Tuesday (St. Maarten's Day) Wescot Williams and some of the other commissioner began cleaning their office when Independent Councilman Louie Laveist said publicly he was withdrawing his support from the DP led government and would back the National Alliance. However, Laveist in a last minute move allegedly made a deal to support the DP government which is now back to normal.
