SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) – SXM Citizen United represented by Raphael Dorra has submitted its petition on Tuesday, April 21 to the Minister of Finance Ardwell Irion with 3280 signatures of citizens calling for NV GEBE to cancel utility bills during the lockdown.
ARCHIVE APRIL 17 – SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) – SXM Citizen United, has started a petition calling on the Government of Sint Maarten, the Prime Minister and NV GEBE’s Supervisory Board of Directors to cancel utility bills during the lock down.
The introduction of the petition says, “On Sunday April 5th, to be able to fight the spread of Covid-19, the government decided to put Sint Maarten in total lockdown. All citizens have to stay at home, without the possibility to work.
“Meanwhile GEBE NV, the public service provider, still plans to bill electricity and water consumption.
“We will be asked to pay bills to a public company while in the meantime the government is giving us the strict order to stay home.
“We ask the government / GEBE to cancel the bill consumption of all customers during the period of mandatory lockdown.”
The petitioners are looking at collecting 5000 online signatures. Up to Thursday evening just before midnight, the petition has 2635 signatures, more than half to the goal of SXM Citizen United.
The link to the online petition can be found here: https://www.change.org/CancelGebeBills
Source: Souliga Newsday https://www.soualiganewsday.com/index.php?option=com-k2&view=item&id=30952:online-petition-about-canceling-gebe-bills-presented-to-minister-irion&Itemid=451
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