Wescot-Williams said the names of the candidate-ministers had been submitted to Governor Eugene Holiday together with the Governing Accord titled "Working for the People" last week Friday.
The accord was signed by Wescot-Williams' Democratic Party (DP), NA and independent Members of Parliament (MPs) Frans Richardson, Patrick Illidge and Romain Laville.
The candidate-ministers now have to be vetted by the security service and other departments. Wescot-Williams said she and coalition partner NA leader MP William Marlin "will make sure all information" is in for the vetting, which should take "not more than a couple of days."
When the candidates have been cleared, their names and dossiers will be presented to Holiday for their appointment by national decree, which will be formalised by their taking the oath of office.
Not all of the candidates' names have been made public. Those known are Wescot-Williams as Prime Minister/Minister of General Affairs, current Public Health Minister Cornelius de Weever, current Justice Minister Roland Duncan and Romeo Pantophlet as Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs.
According sources within the NA, the other three ministers will be William Marlin – Minister of Infrastructure, Silveria Jacobs – Minister of Education, and Roland Tuitt – Finance Minister.
Jacobs already has been listed as Education Minister on the programme of a ceremony at Pointe Blanche House of Detention set for Friday.
Once the candidates are ready to be sworn in, the seven ministers of the United People's (UP)/Democratic Party (DP) coalition, who resigned on May 8, officially will be relieved of their duties. Holiday had requested that the ministers continue in their posts until the new government could take office, Wescot-Williams said.
Asked about the future of controversial projects such as the ring road and the causeway across Simpson Bay Lagoon under an NA-led government, she said she did not envisage any problems.
Wescot-Williams noted that funding already had been provided for the ring road project in the recently approved 2012 budget and that while the causeway was not a government project, the funds for it would be provided through the US $150 million bond being floated by the Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten for the St. Maarten Harbour Group to be used for the refinancing of existing loans and the building of the causeway.
Leading members of the National Alliance have been critical of both projects, referring to the causeway as a "bridge to nowhere."
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