St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten - TelEm Group will be carrying out an important cutover of subscriber lines in the Philipsburg area between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. today. The work will cause temporary interruptions to fixed landline, data and internet services.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
Duncan-lecture at courthouse St. Maarten – “By October of next year I hope we will not have to talk about a shortage of prison cells anymore,” Justice Minister Roland Duncan said yesterday afternoon in a lecture at the courthouse on the occa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
Identification Cards available again St. Maarten – The Civil Registry Department announced Tuesday that it can once again issue Identification Cards (ID). Applicants can visit the office during regular office hours. People still won’t be able
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten – The Board of the Foundation of Secondary has decided to appoint Vital Carty as Acting General Director of Milton Peters College and Sundial School to replace John Wolff. Alvin Rombley, who is the former head of the PKL/PBL section, ha
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
WILLEMSTAD – The plot thickens in Curacao, after a memo from the security service was leaked to the media. The Antilliaans Dagblad reported an interesting detail that suggests links between Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte and the Atlantis World Group
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten – Members of the Lynch family spent last week distributing copies of “The Constitution of St. Maarten made simple” last week as part of the commemoration of one year of country status. The presentations to subsidized and non-subsidi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has confirmed that Postal Services St. Maarten (P.S.S.) will seek to do E-Zone and Moneygram services, making it a competitor with New Post Netherlands Antilles. The latter company, which used to m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten – Sonesta Resorts St Maarten has finalized a new charter partnership with Italian tour operator Eden Viaggi for a year round direct flight from Milan’s Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Princess Juliana International Airport. The partnership
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – “The interest in St. Maarten from Dutch politicians is zero,” former Kingdom Relations Minister and current D66-leader Alexander Pechtold told The Today Newspaper during a dinner party at the Sheer restaurant on
St. Maarten has a shortage of prison cells, and we apparently don’t have money to buy beds for the immigration detention center in Simpson Bay. Is there an app for that? Yep, it’s all about efficient distribution and that is not always the case i
The cesspit called Curacao stinks so bad, people smell it in St. Maarten. Assuming that the leaked memo from the security service in Willemstad is genuine, the Schotte-government starts looking more what Dutch politicians like to call damaged goods.
The chair of the Dutch Second Chamber does not have a political function, unlike St. Maarten’s chair who is simply a member of a political faction in parliament. When we spoke to the amicable Gerdi Verbeet yesterday morning she said at a certain m
Dear Editor, I wrote an article for our papers to urge people to go to The Alley to attend the book launch of a local writer: Lydia Henderson. You may like her or not, she is a local celebrity, who writes a book. The Daily Herald did not publish m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten - People applying to the University of St. Martin for the spring semester have until November 8 to submit their application. Applications received after this deadline, will be subject to a late fee. All applicants must submit the comple
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
WILLEMSTAD – Dutch faction leaders have encouraged Curacao’s parliament to carry out an investigation in corruption allegations in the Schotte-cabinet. They based their request on the findings of a report by a committee chaired by Paul Rosenmöll
Country St. Maarten continues to exist on a wing and a prayer when one considers how things are developing. Somehow we are also starting to get the feeling that the government is right about needing to construct a foundation during its governing term
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 19, 2011
St. Maarten – The draft budget for 2012, which was approved by the Council of Ministers on Monday, is balanced and tops out at 432, 549, 600 guilders. This is 11, 633, 003 guilders higher than the 2011 budget. Approval in cabinet means Finance Mi
