Mathias Sinclair Voges ( Philipsburg, 23 February 1943) is a politician and historian from

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 north ...

, who held the office of

Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten The Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten ( nl, Gevolmachtigd Minister van Sint Maarten) represents the constituent country of Sint Maarten in the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The current Minister Plenipotentiary is Re ...

from 2010 till 2014. Before this, Voges had been Acting Lieutenant Governor of Sint Maarten. He is also a former president of the board of directors of the University of St. Martin.Van Romondt West Indian Branch Family Research �
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Biography

Voges was born in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten to Johannes Ricardo Voges and Theresa Winifred Lejuez. The family left for

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...

when Mathias was still young. In Curaçao, he graduated from Peter Stuyvesant College in 1965, after which he continued his studies in

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...

, the

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at the Rijkskweekschool. After graduating in 1966, he moved to

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, where he did the Lerarenopleiding, from which he graduated in 1975. Voges returned to Sint Maarten in 1981, becoming the principal of the MAVO department of the Milton Peters College. He was promoted to General Director in 1983, and served until 1987. He subsequently became superintendent of the Catholic schools in the Windward Islands. Voges was installed as the first

by the first Wescot-Williams cabinet that took office on 10 October 2010. He retains his function in the

second Wescot-Williams cabinet The second Wescot-Williams cabinet was the second Cabinet of Sint Maarten installed following the achievement of constituent country status of Sint Maarten within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. The cabinet was a coalition betw ...

, although he is joined by Deputy Minister Plenipotentiary Henrietta Doran-York of the National Alliance, the leading party in the new cabinet.

Awards and recognitions

* Officer in the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...

(1993)

References

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