Dear Editor
QUOTE:
“There is no current policy for the selection of persons for the assignment of land in long lease; this has been the case for a long time … In the meantime, as long as there is no policy in place, it has always been the discretion of the Minister of VROMI to ultimately decide to whom available parcels of (land) can be issued in long lease. The selection of the individuals is not (very) transparent, but this is no different than has always been the case and approach of the Government.”
Louis Brown, Secretary General of the Ministry of VROMI – August 23, 2016
Begonia Plant
Begonia Investigation
‘unlawfully long leasing government land to acquaintances at the end of their tenure in 2017, resulting in other applicants being disadvantaged’.
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Member of Parliament (MP) Christopher Emmanuel
Acting Head of Domain Affairs,
Secretary General
Today I have decided to be that someone.
The Players
United Democrats
Leona Romeo-Marlin 1 Cabinet
Leona Romeo-Marlin
Miklos Giterson
Michael Ferrier
Cornelius de Weever
Emil Lee
Jorien Wuite
Secretary General of VROMI
Acting Head of Domain Affairs
The Story
February of 2018
The Facts
The Over the Bank saga:
The Minister decided who would receive land
August 8th, 11th, 22nd
29th, 2016
Minister of VROMI, Angel Meyers
50 names
Department of Domains Affairs
Minister Meyers stated the following:
The list of persons included:
Chief of Staff of Minister Meyers
Niece
Public Relations Officer of Minister Meyers
mother of the children
brother
Policy Advisor to the Secretary General of VROMI
Public Relations Officer
family member
family member
employee of the Permits Department of VROMI
employee of the Permits Department of VROMI
Minister Meyers instructed
Department of Domain Affairs
his family member (niece), his staff (Chief of Staff and Public Relations Officer), staff of the Secretary General Louis Brown (his Policy Advisor and Public Relations Officer), staff within his ministry (employees from the Permits Department) and family members of the Member of Parliament who proposed him as minister Maurice Lake (his brother, mother of his children and two others).
In the email dated July 27th, 2016 from the then Head of Domain Affairs, to Minister Meyers, his Chief of Staff Sandro Garcia, with a copy to Raeyhon Peterson and his colleague Bert Deuzeman, it is stated that it is agreed that Domain Affairs would provide an example of the advice and decree to the Cabinet and that the division of the parcels will be executed by the Cabinet of the Minister.
No red flags went up in the ministry at the time! No complaints were expressed by Louis Brown, Raeyhon Peterson or Miklos Giterson! There were no statements of ‘conflict of interest’, nepotism or anything of the sort!
Why? Because as Louis Brown stated in a detailed memo to then Minister Angel Meyers on August 23rd, 2016:
“There is no current policy for the selection of persons for the assignment of land in long lease; this has been the case for a long time … In the meantime, as long as there is no policy in place, it has always been the discretion of the Minister of VROMI to ultimately decide to whom available parcels of (land) can be issued in long lease. The selection of the individuals is not (very) transparent, but this is no different than has always been the case and approach of the Government.”
So I ask my first question to all involved, especially to you Louis Brown, Raeyhon Peterson and Miklos Giterson:
Given the fact that there still was no policy in effect during the tenure of Minister Emmanuel, why did you present a case to the Council of Ministers and by extension the National Detectives and Prosecutor’s Office, that Minister Emmanuel did not follow the procedures?
Former Minister Meyers
The applications
The application letters and forms were in possession of the minister and/or his cabinet. They were being sent to the Department of Domain Affairs, which implies that the department did not have these applications prior.
What is evident from the contents of the memos is that the advices and decrees, which are generally drafted by the department, were instead drafted by Minister Meyers and/or his cabinet.
The approach taken by Minister Meyers, in sending names to the department and drafting advices and decrees within the cabinet, is not solely tied to the Over the Bank area, as on September 2nd, 2016 Minister Meyers sent another memo to the Department of Domain Affairs, stating:
“In addition to the list of names that were submitted to you regarding Over the Bank, you are hereby requested to further process the decree and advice for the following persons listed below for Belvedere”
“You will receive the decree and advice for the above mentioned persons via e-mail.
This triggers me to ask my second question:
Why is MP Emmanuel a suspect for having requested the Department of Domain Affairs to execute their task, by drafting the necessary advices for issuance of long lease, whereas Minister Meyers worked on them himself within his cabinet? Was this in line with regular procedures?
I think we can all answer the second part of the question ourselves:
As Louis Brown indicated, there is no policy in place.
Sign by:
“To be Continued……!!”
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Source: 721 News https://www.721news.com/top-story/part-1-the-conspiracy-to-ruin-mp-christopher-emmanuel/
