St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten - Saturday September 1 will be D-day for the government of St.Maarten to submit the draft 2013 budget to the board for financial supervision (Cft) and the Council of Advice. A ceiling of 434 million guilders is what Finance Minister Rola
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
Lifers Curtley Richards (l) and Sherwan Roberts arrive at the courthouse for their appeal hearing. Milton Pieters PhotosSt. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – Solicitor-General mr. Taco Stein demanded life imprisonment yesterday afternoon in the Commo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten - “Medical tourism should complement the St.Maarten Medical Centre (SMMC) and not compete with it,” Public Health, Social Development and Labor Minister Cornelius de Weever said yesterday as he responded to claims that he is more inte
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten - Management and staff of Nagico Insurances came together on their own initiative gathering and donating money and clothing, shoes and food to the three families that lost all their belongings when fire gutted their homes on Sunday. Ac
The Public Health Ministry is on a slippery slope with the desire it expressed to have a member on the supervisory board of the St. Maarten Medical Center so that it is able to oversee and participate in decision making. The rules under which the su
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – Basil Germain W. claimed he was babysitting at home and that he knew nothing about a theft of $8,500 worth of booze from the truck he drives for the International Liquor and Tobacco Company ILLTC. The evidence seems stacked against th
There was an interesting discussion in the courtroom yesterday morning that touches on the rights of citizens that get on the wrong side of the law – and those who are expected by law enforcement of hanging out there. The case involves a man who w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
[caption id="attachment_16198" align="alignleft" width="275"] Education Minister Silveria Jacobs.[/caption]St. Maarten - Education Minister Silveria Jacobs issued an apology yesterday to more than 52 teachers and staff of the Public Education Service
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – A 50-year-old father who got so mad at a bus passenger who intervened in a spousal fight over a 1-year-old baby that he pelted him with stones and attacked him with a machete was sentenced to a 5-month conditional prison sentence with
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Andeline Remigia Antonia Reenis to a conditional 750 guilders fine yesterday for damaging the car of her neighbor as well as the front door of his house on the Beared Fig Tree Drive on January 5 b
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – Between August 7 and 8 a burglary took place at the warehouse of Mr. Cool in Cole Bay, the police reported yesterday. A large number of split unit air conditioning systems of the Comfort Star and Gree brands were stolen. The detectiv
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
CAY HILL - The Sint Maarten Medical Center Foundation (SMMC) bids farewell to its chairman of the Supervisory Council Clarence Richardson after 7 years of dedicated service. “The SMMC sincerely expresses its appreciation for Mr. Richardson’s inpu
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – The Public Prosecutor’s Office is making work these days of serious traffic violations. Among them is one well-known bad habit of islanders: taking off after causing an accident. Yesterday two of these cases were handled in the Cour
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
PM Wescot-Williams, her advisor Emilia Thomas and Brigadier Edwin Hofma.St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams was briefed yesterday by Brigadier Edwin Hofma, the commanding officer of the marine base Savaneta in Aruba about future pl
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – The two winners of Chippie’s North Sea Jazz Festival promotion travel to Curacao today with their invited guests. They will enjoy two nights of concerts on Friday and Saturday at the World Trade Center in Willemstad. The winners wi
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St. Maarten - Members of the National Security Service are expected to benefit from a protective services training exercise that will be held from September 10 to September 14. The training will be offered by the Force Protection Detachment of the Un
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten -The service level agreement between St.Maarten and Curacao to have an evaluation council in the sister country vet the degrees and diplomas of foreign teachers who work on the island may not be in force much longer. Education Minister Si
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St. Maarten - Yesterday, Tourism and Economic Affairs Minister Romeo Pantophlet confirmed that the board members of the Harbor Group of Companies were asked to make their positions available to the shareholder which is government in order for a new b
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – Judge Tamara Tijhuis concluded that her court does not have adequate information to conclude the criminal trial of Martino Alfredo H., a 33-year-old local with serious addiction and psychological problems. The defendant is accused of
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten – Gavon Marlon Daniel did not know exactly what he was doing on June 16 when he stepped into a taxi – not as a passenger, but behind the wheel. Shortly after he had stolen the car, he crashed it against a palm tree. The cab is total l
The solicitor-general demanded life imprisonment against two men who committed a string of murders, one rape and several violent robberies last year around the time of the Heineken Regatta. Three weeks from now, the Common Court of Justice will eith
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2012
St. Maarten - Taxi drivers as well as those doing normal deliveries along Front Street yesterday were faced with two obstacles, the barricading of the road which allowed vehicles to circle the courthouse and the irrigation repairs to a section of roa
Some things are so scary that they become funny. Take this story from Iceland where a group of tourists spend hours looking for a missing companion. The group was touring the country and had stopped in the vicinity of a volcanic area. One woman disa
