SMN News has been reliably informed that Dr. Mercelina who resigned from the St. Maarten Medical Center was contacted for the position. However, it is not clear if he accepted the offer made by the Democratic Party. Other candidates whose name surfaced in the media are Cornelius De Weever, and Erno Labega, both men are civil servants working for the island government of St. Maarten.
Sources close to the Democratic Party said that DP parliamentarian Leroy De Weever wanted his nephew in that position from the day he was elected but somehow his party nominated Maria Buncamper Molanus to the position rather than allowing her to become a parliamentarian. According to the source the Democratic Party wanted to make sure Roy Marlin got a job in parliament. Buncamper Molanus was the third highest vote getter on the DP slate with 136 votes and she was asked to give up her seat in parliament and take up the position of Minister of Health and Labour.
Buncamper Molanus was forced to make a position available to the council of Ministers when the scandal broke about the parcel of land she received on Pond Island while she was a commissioner and later sold the economic rights of the property for 3 million USD.
In the meantime, the prosecutor's office is expected to take a decision this week as to whether or not they are going to prosecute Buncamper Molanus for the sale of the economic rights of the long lease land.
Press Prosecutor Rienk Mud said no decision has been taken as yet as his colleague is busy studying the file.
