PHILIPSBURG--Former Health and Labour Affairs Minister Maria Buncamper-Molanus has put in a claim to the Personnel and Finance Departments for the continued payment of her salary for the next two years, as she is entitled to under the law.
To be eligible for a continued salary, Buncamper-Molanus will have to prove she has no other income to fall back on, Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto said when asked by this newspaper about the issue.
The former minister made her post available to the United People's (UP)/Democratic Party (DP) coalition on December 23, 2010, when she was faced with a motion of no confidence in Parliament, due to a long lease land scandal.
Buncamper-Molanus has maintained that she and her husband, senior civil servant Claudius Buncamper, had done nothing illegal or morally incorrect with the deal that was based on the sale of the economic rights of the land to another company.
She later formalised the statement she had made to Parliament in a letter to Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, which led to the cabinet issuing a decree accepting her resignation.
At first, it was not clear whether Buncamper-Molanus was entitled to continue receiving a portion of her salary, as she had served only three months in office. She had received a gross monthly salary of US $11,037.50.
Should her claim be granted, she will receive 95 per cent of her monthly salary in the first month. That percentage will dwindle over the one- to two-year period to the point where she will receive 70 per cent for the last months.
Asked whether one of the reasons the former minister could come into consideration for her continued but reduced salary had to do with the fact that she hadn't exactly resigned, but had made her position available to the coalition, Shigemoto said definitely not.
He explained that if she had been fired by Parliament she still would have a claim for her continued salary under the new country regulation for salaries and compensation.
The four commissioners ? Michael Ferrier, Roy Marlin, Maurice Lake and Josianne Fleming-Artsen ? who served in the transition Island Government from October 5 to October 9 are not entitled to more pay than that for the five days' work. So far only Roy Marlin has submitted a request for payment for his work during St. Maarten's last days as an Island Territory of the Netherlands Antilles.
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