St. Maarten, December 8, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce & Industry results for the Board of Directors Election, which was held on Friday, December 3rd<\/sup>, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Jennifer Carty and Mr. Benjamin Ortega were elected out of a field of 3 candidates as the two representatives to fill the vacancies for the Large Business Sector<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Carty led the pack with 23 votes, followed by Mr. Ortega with 22 votes, and Ms. Peggy Ann Brandon with 10 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Carty was also elected out of a field of 6 candidates as the representatives to fill the vacancy for the Small Business Sector<\/strong>. Ms. Carty led the pack with 70 votes. The results of the other candidates were as follows: Ms. Ifelola Badejo with 66 votes, Ms. Nzinga Lake with 60 votes, Mr. Edsel Gumbs with 43 votes, Mr. Michel Arrindell with 30 votes, and Mrs. Amanda Vidal- Bedminister with 15 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since Carty won outright in both categories, she could have chosen which category she would represent for the next three years. Carty chose to represent Large Businesses<\/strong>. This means that Badejo as first runner up in the Small Business<\/strong> category would represent this category for another three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Maarten, December 8, 2021 The St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce & Industry results for the Board of Directors Election, which was held on Friday, December 3rd, 2021. Ms. Jennifer Carty and Mr. Benjamin Ortega were elected out of a field of 3 candidates as the two representatives to fill the vacancies for the Large[…]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5569,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/5569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofcommerce.sx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}