St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 28, 2011
St. Maarten - The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) has concluded yet another incident-free jump-up on Saturday night. SCDF President Stuart Johnson expressed his appreciation to the carnival supporters, bands and everyone else who a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 28, 2011
St. Maarten – A church service was held at the St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church on Front Street Sunday in honor of fire fighters as part of Fireman’s Week celebrations. Governor Eugene Holiday, Acting Governor Reynold Groeneveldt, Prime
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 28, 2011
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams signed an agreement with Antillean Co-financing Agency (AMFO) last Friday to execute a part of the country’s Integrated Neighbourhood Development Program (INDP). The INDP is a program approved as
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 28, 2011
St. Maarten – President of Parliament drs Gracita Arrindell has expressed her sympathy to the Meyers family on the passing of 81-year-old Eulalie Meyers-Hazel who passed away on Friday in the Dominican Republic. Arrindell who was in New York when
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 28, 2011
St. Maarten – Former Commissioner in St. Eustatius Roy Hooker has slammed the Dutch government for not living up to agreements made leading up to when the island became a Public Entity of the Netherlands on October 10, 2010. Speaking in St. Maarte
It may be a sign that life is random or that we must accept the good and the bad but today a nation must pause and find words to say farewell for two different reasons. On one hand Dennis Richardson, someone synonymous with moving the nation forwa
Eldridge van Putten’s petition drive aimed at dissolving the St. Maarten Parliament and – we assume – sending the St. Maarten government home – reached a new stage yesterday when the social and political activist sent a letter to the presiden
That Facebook is past the peak of its popularity is becoming increasingly evident. Our managing editor de-activated his Facebook page last week and two articles in the Dutch Volkskrant show that he is not the only one. Two authors reported on the pap
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
Common Court of Justice gives “veiled extradition” the nod St. Maarten – The Appeals Court has confirmed the verdict of Garvin Clint Baptiste and dismissed the argument that his arrest at the Dutch-French border on June 4, 2009, was unlawfu
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
St. Maarten – Project Director for Constitutional Affairs and Interim Executive Director of the Social and Health Insurances (SZV) Dennis Richardson (64) has officially been appointed Member of the Kingdom Council of State. The decision to appoint
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto and his counterpart from Curacao Jorge R.M. Jamaloodin signed the transition regulation regulating the new Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten on Friday. This is seen as a significant development.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
St. Maarten – The Collective Preventive Services (CPS) which is part of the Ministry of Public Health, says its travel advisory to Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic) remains in force due to the cholera outbreak which has claimed a total of 4,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
St. Maarten – The Collective Preventive Services (CPS) from the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labor would like to inform the public that there is no current or immediate threat of radiation contamination to public health for
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
Get ready for April: 89 questions in 45 minutes St. Maarten – The questionnaire census takers will use during the upcoming 2011 census in April contains 89 questions in all: 54 about personal issues and an additional 35 about living accommodatio
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
St. Maarten - Over 60 head enumerators and assistant head enumerators who will be responsible for managing 29 teams of enumerators scheduled to conduct housing & population surveys in every home across Dutch St. Maarten during April 9 to April 1
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
Attorney Merx points out rights of people with immigration-trouble St. Maarten - People who get caught by immigration with travel documents that are either forged or otherwise not in order have to seek legal assistance, attorney Mr. C.H.J. Merx to
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
Activist wants to know how many signatures he needs St. Maarten –“How many signatures are required for parliament to comply with our request?” that is the basis question social and political activist Eldridge van Putten asks in a letter add
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 27, 2011
St. Maarten – Community Pastor Eulalie Meyers-Hazel died in hospital between Thursday and Friday, prompting an outpouring of support for the Meyers and Hazel families. The deceased is the mother of amongst others Minister of Tourism, Economic Affai
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
PM to investigate status of affairs St. Maarten – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Directors of the Telem Group of Companies Rafael Boasman agrees with the St. Maarten Communications Union (SMCU) that the company’s restructuring should be
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
“Group” to deliver turnkey project St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan confirmed on Thursday that a group has gotten together to build a turnkey police substation on the L.B. Scot Road. Preparatory work on the land where the buildin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
St. Maarten – Crime victims feel that they are short-changed by policy that entitles suspects to sentence reductions for remaining detained too long in a police cell, public prosecutor Mr. M. Overmeer said yesterday. “We should not look from a Du
Prosecutor mr. M. Overmeer put the cat among the pigeons with her statement about the conditions in the police cells yesterday. The conditions in especially the old police cells have been a bone of contention for years and there has never been any do
While St. Maarten struggles with prison cell capacity and prisons in the Netherlands stand empty, Dutch politicians are entangled in a debate about the usefulness of heavier sentences. The minority VVD/CDA-coalition’s supporter, the Freedom Party w
Dear Editor, St. Maarten is overrun by foreign born nationals to the extent that the nature of the island and the culture of its people are on the verge of becoming non-existent. All of this is caused by the Laissez Faire policies of the people th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
The Telem Group of Companies has surged back into the headlines in a “curious way” because the union has demanded that the process of restructuring the company be finalized before a strategic partner is found. This has raised the eye brows of bot
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
St. Maarten – Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (Ministry VSA) Cornelius de Weever, is encouraging public participation in the 3rd Lion’s Club Annual Health and Wellness Fair in the Festival Village on Pond Island on March 2
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
MARIGOT/St. Martin - The opposition party in the Territorial Council on French St. Martin says that serious legal actions will be taken against the French government in order to collect the funds owed to St. Martin. The Opposition Party leader Alain
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance acquitted gypsy cab driver Bernardo O.L.H., 28, of stabbing a cab driver on January 23 near the Caravanserai Resort for lack of evidence. Judge Mr. M. Keppels ruled that the file did not contain enough e
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
St. Maarten – Three days of bush fires have led the Fire Department to restate their appeal that people should be careful about throwing lit cigarettes or other objects like glass bottles into the bushes. These types of incendiaries can create a ma
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
St. Maarten - A cash injection of $30.000.00 dollars and a donation of three Blackberry smart phones is just one way United Telecommunications Services (UTS) has reiterated their commitment to the St Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF). Th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
St. Maarten - The St. Maarten Alzheimer Foundation will be providing free memory tests at Saturday’s 3rd annual Lions Club Health and Wellness Fair in the Festival Village. Board members and volunteers of the Alzheimer foundation will also be there
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
KRALENDIJK/BONAIRE - The Commissioner of Education for St. Eustatius Clyde van Putten is heading a high powered delegation to the education summit for Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba (BES) with the Minister of Education of the Netherlands Marja van B
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced two burglars who raided the Sun Color building on January 17 to prison sentences equal to the pretrial detention. Jeannot Sanon, 22, was sentenced to 44 days and his partner in crime Anderson Pete
Entertainment - Posted by admin on March 25, 2011
Office relocates for one week St. Maarten - The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) will be taking Carnival lovers through Philipsburg tomorrow, Saturday, for “a warm-up, jump-up session”. “The Fete to Fitness around Town J
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 24, 2011
Lawyers outraged about prosecution’s changed position St. Maarten – The Snowflake-trial against two brothers and two other suspects took an unexpected turn yesterday when the public prosecutor made an about face by asking the court to ignore
