~ Is Michel Hyman being made a scapegoat for Dutch Takeover~
PHILIPSBURG:--- The Princess Juliana International Airport Holding Company has ordered an independent audit after a shareholders meeting was held on December 23rd, 2021, and suspended Chief Operations Officer Michel Hyman was heard.
SMN News learned in that meeting Hyman agreed to remain on two months administrative leave pending the outcome of the audit. The SBOD of PJIAE wanted to dismiss Hyman since he was arrested on October 22nd in the Mitte Investigation which is related to fraud post-Irma.
Questions are now being raised by many since the arrest and release of Michel Hyman, they said that Hyman is being made a scapegoat five years after Hurricane Irma and the cleaning of the Princess Juliana International Airport. The concerned citizens that have contacted SMN News said that they believe the arrest of Michel Hyman is a distraction to the alleged cover-up of other misdeeds.
With the passing of hurricanes Irma and Maria, it is no secret that all prices in construction skyrocketed simply because demand for labor and material grew tremendously in all territories that were hit, including Puerto Rico, Florida, Antigua, Dominica, BVI, Anguilla.
It should therefore not come as a surprise that as the key gateway to St. Maarten PJIAE had significant pressure to demand clean-up and reconstruction services. Hyman was the interim CEO but was always functioning under the strict supervision of an SBOD while a CFO was hired shortly after the hurricanes in 2017.
One cannot make the argument that Supervisory board members were off-island or otherwise occupied with pressing matters since the only pressing point for the following 4 years and counting was the reconstruction of PJIAE.
The arrest and detention of Hyman in isolation of a broader investigation can only make one wonder how big a conspiracy it really is to have Schiphol get its way in taking control of this country’s biggest economic asset.
“We simply cannot ignore the information out there about the numerous consultants and their high fees, the long drawn out insurance claim and the perceived willful neglect with speedy cleanup and recovery efforts, the change of multiple supervisory board members, the sudden departure of Ravi Daryanani, the firing of Brian Mingo, the firing of Dexter Doncher, the hiring of Leo van der Meiden as CFO instead of Ms. Lake who worked for many years on-the-job and specifically trained to become the next CFO, the new hiring of yet another CFO are just a few reasons the public begs for clarity and transparency in what is really happening at PJIAE.
If the real intention was to facilitate Schiphol and those in a subjective position, where no resistance is given to the takeover, then it can be logically concluded that while Hyman is out battling his allegations all skeletons can now disappear with the co-signing authorities of the new COO also from Schiphol.
The public is looking critically at these developments and has lost the belief that the Government of Sint Maarten has any factual influence at PJIAE.
PJIAE management clarified that Mr. Flores Tammes is not employed as the Chief Operations Officer of PJIAE but was hired as a trainer from Rotterdam, The Hague Airport. CEO Brian Mingo said that Tammes left a director's position in the Netherlands to take up a six month contract to train some much needed staff at PJIAE. Mingo also assured that Tammes is not from Schipol and he is certainly not a COO at PJIAE because that position is not vacant.
