Cabinet Name: | Gumbs cabinet |
Cabinet Number: | 4th |
Jurisdiction: | Sint Maarten |
Flag: | Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg |
Flag Border: | true |
Date Formed: | 19 December 2014[1] |
Date Dissolved: | 19 November 2015[2] |
Government Head: | Marcel Gumbs |
State Head: | Willem-Alexander |
Political Parties: | United People's Party United St. Maarten Party[3] Leona Marlin-Romeo Cornelius de Weever |
Election: | 2014 election |
Previous: | Wescot-Williams III |
Successor: | Marlin I |
The Gumbs cabinet was a coalition cabinet in Sint Maarten formed by the United People's Party and independent members of Parliament Cornelius de Weever and Leona Marlin-Romeo.
The cabinet succeeded the Third Wescot-Williams cabinet following the 2014 general elections, and was installed by Governor Eugene Holiday on 19 December 2014.[4] [5] It fell on 30 September following a vote of non-confidence with 3 coalition party members voting in favour.[6]
The cabinet is composed as follows:
|Prime Minister|Marcel Gumbs|UP|19 December 2014|-|rowspan="2"|Minister of Housing, Physical Planning, and Environment|Marcel Gumbs (interim)|UP|19 December 2014|-|Claret M. Connor|UP|7 September 2015|-|Minister of Finance|Martinus J. Hassink||19 December 2014|-|Minister of Justice|Dennis L. Richardson|USP|19 December 2014|-|rowspan="2"|Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunications|Claret M. Connor|UP|19 December 2014|-|Ernest Sams ||7 September 2015|-|rowspan="2"|Minister of Healthcare, Social Development, and Labor|Rita Gumbs (interim)|UP|19 December 2014|-|Rafael Boasman||7 September 2015|-|Minister of Education, Culture, Youth, and Sports|Rita Gumbs|UP|19 December 2014|-|Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten|Josianne Fleming-Artsen|UP|19 December 2014|}
Ernest Sams was put forward on Leona Marlin-Romeo's recommendation, while Rafael Boasman was recommended by Cornelius de Weever.[7]