We all know why many wrongs in organizations are never made right: talking about these situations usually ends badly for the whistleblower. The name of Bas Roorda comes to mind, and we all know how that story ended. In the Netherlands, Socialist P
Something good will come off the story about the teacher who lost her job for getting pregnant out of wedlock. For one, the case makes clear – to those who were unaware of it – what the rights of employees are. Faith based schools are perfectl
There are two events on the horizon that deserve everybody’s attention. The nearest one is the National Museum Day. It will offer citizens, school children and visitors alike an opportunity to visit our quaint museum on Front Street for free this F
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
Thompson (Epic): “When were the building permits on public review?” St. Maarten – A dredger dumping sludge and sand into the Simpson Bay Lagoon at the end of the airport’s runway last week set off alarm bells with Rueben Thompson, the inde
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten – “The task ahead for the incoming government is one of humongous proportions. But it is not an impossible one,” National Alliance MP George Pantophlet stated in a press release issued yesterday afternoon. “The statement “all
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
Changes become effective tonight St. Maarten – A new 011 dialing code for international calls out of St. Maarten to other parts of the world will go into effect Monday night – so long as all goes well with the final fine-tuning of various tele
French St. Martin News, St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
MARIGOT - In cooperation with the Réserve Naturelle of Saint Martin and the Brigade for the prevention of juvenile delinquency BPDJ children of the Be Wise Foundation and the Basketball Association of Saint Martin set out for an eco-citizen hike tha
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten - UTS announced Cavin Bridgewater of South Reward as the winner of 6 months Caribserve Broadband Internet service this weekend. During select nights of Carnival the Chippie promo team conducted a survey in the Festival Village amongst Chi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – Last Thursday Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams met with the progress monitoring committee. Sint Maarten’s representative on the committee is Richard Gibson Sr. The progress committee was established by Kingdom partner
St. Maarten News, St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten - As several countries around the world celebrated mother’s day, the St Maarten softball Association has made the day a very special one for a few ladies that have contributed in one way or the other to the development of the game on th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten - “Come on up and carry your own key” was the challenge issued to all those who attended the Aging With Grace (AWG) foundation’s Mother’s Day karaoke festival. The event was held at the Port-de-Plaisance rotunda on Sunday and w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten– The excitement is growing among voters from the Dominican Republic over the presidential elections that are scheduled for this upcoming Sunday. As the pictures show, support among voters in St. Maarten is in favor on Danilo Medina, his
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten – The identity of the man whose body was found in the Simpson Bay Lagoon last week Sunday has been identified, based on identification papers he was carrying. The drowned man is a Portuguese citizen, Luis Rodriguez, aged 34. He has b
Concerns about the way work on the causeway across the lagoon is done obviously create that here-we-go-again feeling. It is that we have observant environmentalists on our island, otherwise contractors would simply do what they do best: ignore all
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten - Are health care workers in St. Maarten adequately trained to address the rights and specific needs of older people? That was the central question during a recent brainstorming session the Public Health Ministry’s section general healt
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten - The Nature Valley Duathlon at Le Gallion early yesterday morning provided the perfect opportunity for the young participants to emulate their peers; those that witnessed the series of races were not disappointed. Originally, the orga
We’re addicted to useless information and the following definitely falls in that category: the sandwich turned 250 years of age this weekend. In the southeast of England is a place called – you got that right – Sandwich. The good citizens of
To say that there is election fever in the Netherlands is an overstatement. There is a long hot summer ahead and for the time being people are more thinking about the European soccer championship in Kiev and about the scary opponents the national tea
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten - Princess Juliana International Airport will be represented at the twelfth annual European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Geneva. The convention in Switzerland begins today and concludes on Wednesday. PJIAE operations
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten – The Common Court of Justice rejected a request by the Wathey-family to cut the terms for handling their appeal against an April 13-court ruling from two weeks to one week and to plead the case within two weeks. The court ruling is par
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten – The meeting of parliament scheduled for this morning has been postponed until an unspecified later date so that MPs are able to attend the funeral service for the late Jane Eliza Richardson-Proctor, the mother of National Alliance MP
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
Minister calls on citizens to update vaccinations St. Maarten - This Saturday there is a vaccination campaign at the festival village, organized by the Ministry of Public Health Social Development & Labor’s section youth health care in coope
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on May 14, 2012
St. Maarten – Outgoing Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs Franklin Meyers said in a press release issued this weekend that he is “very pleased that the country has been ranked ninth among the best islands in the world, according to US News
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
St. Maarten – Both prosecutor mr. Marleen Overmeer, defendant Charles S. and his attorney mr. Cor Merx were ready yesterday afternoon to proceed with the trial about the February 12 fatal shooting of the defendant’s brother Jamal, but Judge mr. M
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
“I was driven by a burning passion to make a difference in the field of education” St. Maarten – Departing Minister of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth will spend her immediate future on her family and on gardening. Asked yesterday if s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
St. Maarten – The departing ministers from the fallen UP/DP-government will cost the tax payer $210,816 for the next two years per minister that does not generate any other income during that period. With Economic Affairs Minister Franklin Meyers a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
St. Maarten - “Laughter has no frontiers and no barriers. It is a natural expression that everyone ought to practice.” It is from this premise that the More Fun, More Laughter Foundation will be producing Laugh till Belly Burst 7 come June 29 and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
CAY HILL- A simple groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday afternoon paved the way for the construction of an eight million guilder road behind the Raoul Illidge Sports Complex in the Cay Hill community. It cemented one of the final tasks that the UP/DP
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
St. Maarten – “I will not attempt to predict the outcome of the Simpson Bay Resort saga since the management continues to defy the verdict of the court,” President of the Windward Islands federation of Labor (Wifol) Theophilus Thompson said yes
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
St. Maarten – Derick Delan W. has spent already 199 days in pretrial custody as a suspect in last year’s October 24 armed robbery at the Jewels are Forever jewelry store on Front Street and he will remain behind bars at least until July 18 when h
Editorial, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
The departure of the ministers in our outgoing government is going to be an additional burden to St. Maarten’s budget. We present some approximate figures in one of front page stories. The question is now how the new government is going to honor th
Pueblo Soberano leader Helmin Wiels seriously needs to have his head examined. We present this as a piece of friendly advice, after his outburst against Mike Willemse at the Antilliaans Dagblad. Wiels said in a radio interview that Willemse ought to
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
WILLEMSTAD – Pueblo Soberano leader Helmin Wiels has raised eyebrows in Willemstad and in The Hague after he said in a radio interview that Antilliaans Dagblad publisher Mike Willemse ought to be arrested for publishing a letter from Justice Minist
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on May 11, 2012
St. Maarten – The parliament will discuss the Emancipation Ordinance on Monday in a public meeting at the parliament building that begins at ten o’clock. After the central committee backed a proposal by Culture Minister Rhoda Arrindell this we
The defendant that was in court yesterday afternoon accused of shooting his younger brother to death must have a rather peculiar sense of reality. The trial has not really started yet, but we got a whiff of what’s coming yesterday when the 24-year-
