St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 8, 2013
As a cooperative member here in St. Maarten I must express my total dissatisfaction with the lousy service given by Telem, our local communication carrier. By not meeting the deadline of payment due by last Tuesday our services with our land base
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on February 8, 2013
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – All suspects in the gold heist case will stay behind bars according to the court. Earlier this week the court ruled that G.R. will get 30 more days behind bars pending more investigation. Initially, the 6 suspects who saw the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
GREAT BAY- St. Maarten has decided to take the Kingdom government to court over the closure of the debt relief program. Finance Minister Roland Tuitt yesterday said that the Council of Ministers had made up its mind on Tuesday and will not let the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
The wrecked car of the two French tourists after the driver lost control yesterday morning. St. Maarten – In a car accident yesterday morning around 5.10 a.m., the driver died and a passenger was injured. Both victims are French male tourists,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Anthony Ray Spencer looked dumbfounded after he learned that the Common Court of Justice had acquitted him of the murder of Christian Lloyd on or around January 23, 2010. The Court in First Instance sentenced Spencer to 20 years on Oc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – For causing an accident on March 21 of last year that cost 23-year-old Gendrick Reid his life, the Court in First Instance sentenced Cynthia Agatha F.-R. yesterday to a conditional prison sentence of 30 days and 60 hours of community
When police officers ticketed gossip writer Bibi Saliva Shaw for using a cell phone while she was driving her car on October 30 of last year on the A.J.C. Brouwers Road, it seemed an open and shut case. Not with Shaw, of course. First, the queen o
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
There is nothing wrong with parliamentarians criticizing the government, but there comes a moment when even the most eager reader starts wondering: what’s the point? We read with increasing bewilderment the statement of U-MP Dr. Ruth Douglass
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten - Another draft of the 2013 budget has been submitted to the board on financial supervision (Cft) after being balanced on Tuesday. It stands at 449 million guilders and within the document, the government proposes to increase the transfer
The National Detective Agency aka Landsrecherche has finally set its teeth in the vote-selling scandal that dates back to before the 2010 elections. Half the file has been ready for a time (the story for the police officers and the VKS-er who sold th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Shawn Carty attempted to make Judge Tamara Tijhuis believe that he had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, when he found himself involved in burglaries in homes on the Little Bay Road and in Fort Willem on March 10 and 17
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – The Permanent Committee of Parliament for Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications will meeting next week Tuesday at 10 a.m. about the state of affairs of the harbour and marine sector. Independent MP Frans
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten - Patrick H., a 25-year old Martinois, will have his day in court on March 13. Yesterday he appeared briefly before Judge Tamara Tijhuis to hear charges for a street robbery, fraud and laundering bankcards in November of last year. Pro
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams urged the people and civil servants in particular to join her today in the re-launching of her U2 Can Move Fitness Campaign; the Soualiga K6 and K3 Challenge walk. “The health of the St. Maart
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – For attempted manslaughter on his neighbor’s boyfriend, the Court in First Instance sentenced Siegerd Basilio Leonora to 48 months imprisonment; of the sentence, 12 months are suspended. The court imposed 2 years of probation. At th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten - Payments for the long awaited Christmas bonus for civil servants began yesterday, Finance Minister Roland Tuitt confirmed. The payments should have been made in the month of December. The minister apologized for the late payment but
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Dutchman Marco Marinus Rojo could have finally had his day in court yesterday to defend himself against allegations of domestic violence against his wife more than three years ago, on November 19, 2009. However, Rojo chose not to appe
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten - In the notable absence of Elie Bendaly, the former Country Head at Scotia Bank St Maarten, Raymond Green who has now taken up that position has reiterated the bank’s commitment for the support of Carnival. In a simple, but yet sign
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten - Within a week, the final report compiled by the government accounting bureau (Soab) on the Taxand scam will be presented to the Council of Ministers, Finance Minister Roland Tuitt stated yesterday. Tuitt has been in possession of the re
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – The National Detective Agency (Landsrecherche) has started to interrogate suspects in the vote buying fraud-case from 2010. An attorney of one of the suspects, who declined to name any names, confirmed that the investigation is now un
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Minister of Tourism, Romeo Pantophlet met with representatives of the Board of the St. Maarten Timeshare Association (SMTA) earlier this week. The meeting was positive and productive according to statements by both Minister Pantophlet
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – After numerous complaints about stray dogs roaming the streets from residents of the Phillipsburg area to the Police Department, the police are informing all dog owners to have their dogs fenced in or tied and not have them on the str
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten - Through a ministerial decree, Finance Minister Roland Tuitt has been able to begin the write off of back taxes owed by citizens and businesses from 2006 and older. Tuitt still has to send a law proposal to Parliament to structurally “
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Personal circumstances she did not wish to discuss in court because she claimed to fear for her life and that of her mother and brother, drove Jenny Paolo Diaz-Aguirre to a create a web of lies designed to defraud people of significan
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
[caption id="attachment_21029" align="alignleft" width="350"] Miss Fleming[/caption]St. Maarten - Between the four plus sized ladies that will make their presence felt on stage in the Paradise Village in Galisbay this evening, only one will walk away
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Nature Foundation has been advising and mentoring a number of high school students with various environmentally themed projects. Particularly students of the Milton Peters College and the Learning Unlimited Preparatory S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Davion Mickel Longmore, a 17-year-old who was sentenced in September of last year to an 18-month suspended sentence for a robbery, returned to the Court in First Instance yesterday to stand trial for yet another robbery. The young man
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 7, 2013
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – Last Friday, Fun Miles celebrated its 15th birthday. The Fun Miles crew chartered a bus and visited the partners that have been with the program since the beginning in 1998. These companies were treated to a full surprise part
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 6, 2013
President of the Windward Islands Chamber of Labor Unions (WICLU), Theophilus Thompson and president of the Windward Islands Teachers Union, Claire Elshot.St. Maarten – President of the Theophilus Thompson Windward Islands Chamber of Labour Unions
A well-intended cleanup action on a piece of land across from the Blue Mall has yielded an embarrassing result: the destruction of the last Amerindian archeological site on our island. That the community police took action to increase the safety f
I agree with Minister De Weever who does not want to appoint Mr. Willemsberg as director of SZV and that he wants to start a new selection process. Minister de Weever wants change and in order to make a change you need a visionary leader and it’
When is something news? The old school taught us: dog bites man is no news. Man bites dog is. These days the definition of news is not that simple anymore. Psychiatrist Bram Bakker notes in an interesting op-ed in the Volkskrant that the news value o
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on February 6, 2013
BILTHOVEN – Curacao-born musician Julián Basílico Coco passed away on Monday at the age of 89 in the Netherlands. He will be cremated on Friday in Bilthoven. Coco graduated as a double bass player from the Conservatory in Amsterdam and he play
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 6, 2013
St. Maarten – During the first immigration control under Operation Clean Sweep more than sixty employees at three different locations were checked. Fourteen of them were briefly detained, but in the end it turned out that all employees were in the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 6, 2013
The site of the Amerindian prehistoric settlement in Cupecoy has been destroyed by bulldozers. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar.CUPECOY, St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – The Princess Group of Companies is the owner of two plots of land across from th
