PHILIPSBURG--Dismissed Finance Department Head Bastiaan "Bas" Roorda plans to seek reinstatement to his post. He was relieved of his post on Thursday with just about two years left on his contract via a ministerial decision which he says he will be challenging.
Roorda told The Daily Herald on Monday that a letter seeking reinstatement was being prepared by his attorney and would be sent out possibly by today, Tuesday.
He said the reason given by the Council of Ministers for his termination was that he had violated the law about giving government information to a third party. He said the letter was brief and no specifics were given to substantiate the claims of violation.
To date, there has been no official statement from the Council of Ministers, in particular Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto, about the dismissal of Roorda.
This newspaper has learnt that the Committee for Financial Supervision CFT has been instructed by government to remove Roorda from all correspondence being sent to the government. CFT and government are in talks about the 2011 budget, which is considered unbalanced by CFT.
Indications last week were that Roorda's termination was somehow linked to dealings with CFT. Neither he nor Shigemoto had confirmed this on Friday and there continued to be no clarity about the reasons.
Roorda was hired as ad-interim Head of Finance in December 2009 by then-Finance Commission Xavier Blackman. He was the director of his own company Tall Tree Technology B.V., a consultancy firm that provides general financial expertise, at the time he was hired by government.
Source: http://www.thedailyherald.com/islands/1-islands-news/15588-roorda-to-seek-reinstatement.html
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