St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten – The parliament came close to a vote about the new penal code yesterday afternoon but at the last moment DP-MP Roy Marlin threw a spanner in the works when he asked for clarification about an article that deals with cruelty to animals.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
GREAT BAY- The detective department is calling on the public for information about an unusual crime in which a man was violently attacked and beaten by a group of young men. The victim is hospitalized in critical condition. The incident occurred in
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
GREAT BAY – Justice Minister Duncan’s proposes to take article 28 that gives convicts with a life sentence the right to ask for a review of their sentence after 20 years out of the draft criminal code. But lifers still have a backdoor to early re
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten - “Cautiously optimistic,” is how Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams described her feelings about developments at Winair on Wednesday. The PM is the airline’s shareholder representative, a function she also holds for the TelEm Gro
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten - The world’s largest travel site, TripAdvisor.com has awarded Pearl Development’s Oyster Bay Beach Resort the 2012 Certificate of Excellence Award. On Wednesday the site sent the company a congratulatory message stating that, “Our
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten - The rekindling of the relationship between the University of St. Martin and the University of the Virgin Islands was lauded on Thursday by both USM President Annelies van den Assem and the UVI Vice Provost Dr. Judith W. Edwin. This wa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
GREAT BAY- The St.Maarten United Non-governmental Federation (Sunfed) officially inaugurated its new headquarters with a lecture put on by the St.Maarten Senior Citizens and Pensioners Association on Wednesday night. The building is located on Back S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
GREAT BAY---The Superintendent Minister of the Methodist Agogic Center and Chairman of the School Board Reverend Charles Seaton has indicated that the president of the Windward Islands Teachers Union Claire Elshot did not “give the facts” of the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten – The Health and Temperance department of the Seventh Day Adventist church organizes a march against drugs tomorrow in St. Peters. The march begins at four o’clock in the afternoon at the Milton Peters College and ends at the St. Pete
French St. Martin News, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
ST. LOUIS/RAMBAUD - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams celebrated the St. Louis Fete with the residents of Rambaud and St. Louis on Sunday. The event featured a formal program including a church service, speeches given by dignitaries of both St. Ma
You do the crime you do the time. That’s a popular expression in law enforcement circles and Justice Minister Roland Duncan has made it his mantra. Members of Parliament echoed it yesterday during the debate about the new criminal code. The tone i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – The Fire Department will not be handling any requests for beach bonfires until October. This is due to the turtle nesting season that is currently underway. The department is therefore requesting individuals and establishment
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten – The Common Court of Justice postponed the retrial of National Alliance MP Louie Laveist for the second time yesterday afternoon. Appeal court judges Van Kooten, Smid and Verheijen rescheduled the trial for October 3. Laveist said yes
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
MAHO- Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams addressed the 81st District Toastmaster’s conference at the Sonesta Maho Resort last Saturday. “On behalf of the government of St. Maarten, I congratulate the conference planning committee for a superb p
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
GREAT BAY – When the parliament approves the new criminal code with the amendments proposed by Justice Minister Roland Duncan conditional early release will no longer be a right for prisoners but a privilege that has to be earned. The Justice Mini
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
MARIGOT- The St. Martin Book Fair Committee presented Collectivité d’Outre Mer de Saint Martin President Alain Richardson on Wednesday with the official poster for the fair. The Collectivité is a partner of the 10th annual St. Martin Book Fair,
We have to hand it to MP Laveist: he is not giving up. The embattled politician, the subject of a bribery investigation going back four years to 2008, is still in and out of court – and he is not done yet. In 2008 Laveist was humiliated by his arr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten – The Common Court of Justice sent the case of Gleivon Daniel C., 21, and Hector Bienvenido C., 22, back to the Court in First Instance yesterday. The two defendants are suspects in an armed robbery that took place on March 16 of last y
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten – Wyesha Gergian A. worked as an underpaid office assistant for Unico Management Services in Cole Bay when she got caught in the cross hairs of the Brooks Tower Accord criminal investigation in January 2011. Unico is a company where peo
When members of parliament are sworn in they promise to always uphold the constitution, aka the State Regulation. That should not be an empty promise, but MPs created an interesting situation by bringing up cockfighting yesterday during the debate ab
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
GREAT BAY- St. Maarten’s Rolando Tobias will be heading the Toastmasters District 81 for the July 1st 2012-2013 year. Tobias was elected during the business meeting of the May Conference last Saturday at the Sonesta Maho Resort. As District Gover
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten - President of the Windward Islands Teachers Union Witu Claire Elshot will be part of a tripartite team representing workers, government and businesses heading to the 101st International Labor Organization (ILO) Conference in Geneva from
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten - A group 35 members from the St. Maarten Lions Club along with club members from French St. Martin, Saba, prospect members, spouses, family members and friends paraded through downtown along with other countries in Port of Spain, Trinida
Gay marriage and St. Maarten are two worlds apart and in most American states same sex marriages are still taboo with a capital T. The American comic strip publisher Marvel is taking a shot at the future with the announcement that its comic strip he
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 25, 2012
St. Maarten - Governor drs. Eugene Holiday, paid a working visit to the Nature Foundation yesterday. The Governor met with the foundation’s executive board and with manager Tadzio Bervoets. The Nature Foundation highlighted its effort to eradicate
