St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY, St. Maarten – The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport is to begin work on a new plan for education in the 2011 – 2012 parliamentary year. This is one of the announcements that Governor Eugene Holiday made in his State of th
The government of St. Maarten will spend its second year studying what actions to take. This is the strong impression that we take away from the State of the Nation address delivered by Governor drs. Eugene Holiday on Tuesday. We are disa
It’s always nice to see a happy human being and MP Frans Richardson was definitely in an exuberant mood when he drove onto the parking lot of our newspaper on Monday evening. As we were just about to leave and already sitting in our car, Richardson
To say that Marc Jan Ahne had a brush with the law is probably an understatement. Ahne, an alderman in the Executive Council of the municipality of Deventer seems to be a hands-on guy, given the fact that he went to a hardware store recently to buy s
Ho, ho, stop the press. Young people are dying in the streets every day. No we’re not talking about Darfur, Afghanistan or Libya; we’re talking about St. Maarten. The statement is from United People’s party-leader Romain Laville, made during t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY, St. Maarten – Politicians, leaders of advisory bodies and private sector organizations have called Tuesday’s State of the Nation Address a good starting point for further analysis. The speech, delivered by Governor drs Eugene Holiday,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY – “The coming year shall be a tough year, but by no means impossible.” Those words frame the entire context of the first State of the Nation Address delivered by Governor drs Eugene Holiday at Tuesday’s opening of the 2011 – 2012
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY, St. Maarten – Gus Priest, the head of visitor Services and Product Development at the Tourist Bureau has taken up the case of Jacky Evans, the British tourist who feels fleeced by a local jewelry store. Today reported about the case on M
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten version of the International Coastal Cleanup will return to Mullet Bay Beach between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on Saturday September 17. The event is being coordinated by the St. Maarten Pride Foundation. This year’s ev
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY, St. Maarten – Ombudsman Nilda Lynch-Arduin hopes a meeting last Friday will lead to the approval and execution of several projects that the Bureau has put forward. The Bureau of the Ombudsman had experienced delays with several projects,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Tourism Bureau is organizing two activities to mark World Tourism Day on September 27. The event’s theme this year is ‘Tourism – Linking Cultures.’ It is aimed at celebrating tourism’s role in linking the cultu
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GREAT BAY/ THE HAGUE – St. Maarten’s representative in the authoritative Dutch Council of State Dennis Richardson has worked on a part time basis in the Netherlands since he was sworn in on May 9, because the 2011 budget did not contain a post to
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
Turnover Tax to be evaluated GREAT BAY, St. Maarten – The Finance Ministry now expects to complete its planned overhaul of the tax system “within 18 months.” The announcement of the new timeframe was made by Governor drs Eugene Holiday durin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY, St. Maarten – The Government of St. Maarten plans to request that Netherlands Antilles guilder (ANG) remain the joint currency for Curacao and St. Maarten for the year 2012. The government will then use that year to conduct a “careful
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
Prosecutor’s Office will not appeal Snowflake-decision GREAT BAY, St. Maarten - The Public Prosecutor’s Office will not appeal the August 24 court decision to declare the Snowflake case inadmissible, Chief Prosecutor Mr. Hans Mos said in a joi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2011
GREAT BAY, St. Maarten – Governor Eugene Holiday has announced that the government plans to begin work on the National Development Plan (NDP) “post haste”. That plan will replace the Multi Annual Policy Plan. “Through the National Developmen
