Eugene Bernard Holiday (born 14 December 1962) is a Sint Maarten politician and the first

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Sint Maarten Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the nort ...

, which became a

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( nl, land) within the

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on 10 October 2010. He was installed by the

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on 7 September 2010. He was president of

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before assuming his office as governor.

Biography

Eugene Bernard Holiday was born on St. Maarten on 14 December 1962 as the fourth of seven children of Eugene Bernard Holiday Sr. and Leonie Cassandra Marsham. He studied in the Netherlands from 1979, graduating from Catholic University of Brabant with a

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(i.e. doctorandus) in economics in 1987. He married Marie-Louise Hazel in 1990.

References

Living people Governors of Sint Maarten 1962 births Tilburg University alumni {{SintMaarten-stub