Philipsburg: --- The St. Maarten Telecommunication union headed by Ludson Evers is calling on the Prime Minister and Shareholder representative Sarah Wescot Williams to begin the restructuring of TELEM before partnering.Evers told reporters that the restructuring plan has been in place since 2002. He said they sent a letter to the Prime Minister asking if they are still interested in restructuring the company. Evers said the shareholder representative told them the restructuring will take place while she also admitted that the company is looking for partners. However, the Prime Minister, he said could not tell the union which of the two will get priority.
Evers said the company has to fix its house before they look for partners because government neither the company will get the real value of the company. The unionist said they already indicated to the Prime Minister that restructuring must take place first before partners are brought in. He said a resolution has been sent to the Prime Minister which is based on the report from 2005.
As for the Post Office, Evers said St. Maarten has established its own Postal Service but the 187 employees are still working for Niewe Post Netherlands Antilles who will cease to do postal services on St. Maarten. He said the process for the transfer started off wrong and while Niewe Post will not be doing postal services on St. Maarten they plan to continue doing other business on the island which would require less workers.
