St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
Head of the Civil Registry Leona Romeo-Marlin, the Civil Registry’s Section Head of the Front Office Kathy Snijders-Correa and Managing Director of the St. Maarten Housing Development Foundation Henry Lynch pause for a photo during their discus
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten – The Antillean Co-Financing Agency (Amfo) invests 823,082 guilders extending the Vessel for Success After school program and in continuing the breakfast program at the Milton Peters College that is run by the Maximizing Pupils Chances
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
GREAT BAY - St. Maarten Cable TV will remove eight channels from its analog lineup on January 23. Customers with a digital converter will be able to continue viewing the channels. The eight channels being pulled out are Channel 43- Animal Planet, C
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten – A general public meeting of parliament on infrastructure developments on St. Maarten and the impact on the environment and developments at GEBE (Utilities) including the generation and distribution of electricity and water and the fue
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten – ESPN (channel 9) and ESPN2 Caribbean Networks (channel 12) telecasts the Caribbean Twenty20 Cricket 2012 live from the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua and Kensington Oval in Barbados. The tournament began on January 9 and will
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten – Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce & Industry are to meet again before the end of January to discuss creating a link between the Chamber’s database and the Inspectorate of Taxes. Parti
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto expects significant progress to be made in tax reform in 2012. Current efforts are focused on revamp the country’s tax system making it easy to understand, easy to collect and leading to economic effi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten – Mr. Remco M. Stomp (Stomp Lawyers) was elected as Dean of the St. Maarten Bar Association at a recent general meeting. Mr. Camiel Koster (BZSE) was chosen as vice dean while Shaira Bommel (Sulvaran &Peterson) was chosen as secreta
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten – Winair managed to bring down its annual debt from 5 million to 900,000 guilders in fourteen months (from $2.8 million to $500,000) and to reduce its staff by 30 percent from 106 to the current 74, the company’s advisor Michael Ferri
St. Maarten News, St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
St. Maarten - Antonio Feliz, a pony league baseball player, has received a baseball scholarship to attend a college in the United States of America. Feliz, who is a short stop, is one of the St. Martin players that was recently selected for the Frenc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 10, 2012
New immigration cards already in use St. Maarten – Serious floods in Thailand back in November of last year, have caused a delay in the installation of immigration card scanners at Princess Juliana International Airport, TSIS project manager
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 10, 2012
St. Maarten – The grouping of societal organizations that have come together over the past few days around the matter of equal pensions and equal healthcare standards in the Kingdom of the Netherlands have not ruled out having a demonstration in or
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 10, 2012
President of the United Haitian Community Guerrier Jeston says some of his countrymen have threatened his life over the bankruptcy at the Christian Kingdom Cooperative (CKC) Credit Union.St. Maarten - President of the United Haitian Community Guerrie
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 10, 2012
Chief Executive Officer of the St. Maarten Harbour Group of Companies Mark MingoSt. Maarten – Chief Executive Officer of the St. Maarten Harbour Group of Companies Mark Mingo has announced the company will be seeking International Organization
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 10, 2012
St. Maarten – The Worker’s Institute for Organized Labor (Wifol) and a technical team from the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labor have agreed to work together to assist 47 people the management of the former Pelican Resort wa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 10, 2012
President of Parliament Gracita Arrrindell welcomed the delegations from Curacao and Aruba that will be attending the Inter-parliamentary Consultation on the Kingdom that begins at the Great Bay Beach Hotel today. The discussions, which also include
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 10, 2012
St. Maarten – The National Alliance faction has protested a decision to convert the closing dinner/cultural show for the Inter-parliamentary Consultation on the Kingdom into a closing lunch/show. The party’s disapproval was communicated in an e-m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 9, 2012
“Our national identity demands that we sever ties and move forward.” Prophetess Aster Allen calls St. Maarten to “sever ties with its past and follow God as it moves forward with its national identity” during her short sermon at Sunday
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 9, 2012
Relief expected by month-end as Sol and Chevron address supply issues St. Maarten – The Princess Juliana International Airport has announced it will begin relocating the fuel farm at the airport in the second quarter of this year as part of
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 9, 2012
St. Maarten - The Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) ushered in the New Year by flying the flags of the various countries and territories it services as an international airport. The mounting of the 31 flags on light poles that arch ar
French St. Martin News, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 9, 2012
MARIGOT, St. Martin – Carnival 2012, which is themed Let’s do it together, got off to jammin’ start on Sunday with a short parade from the Gendermerie to the Community Center in French Quarter. This is the first of four such events to get peopl
French St. Martin News, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 9, 2012
(from left to right) FCDSM President Mr. Richardson, Erno Labega SCDF treasurer, SCDF President Stuart Johnson and FCDSM Public Relations Officer Robert Fleming.GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) and Festivité
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 9, 2012
St. Maarten – Representatives from three unions, the Windward Islands Chamber of Labor Unions, the St. Maarten United Non-Governmental Federation (Sunfed) and first vice president of the St. Maarten Senior Citizens and Pensioners Association Raymon
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 9, 2012
St. Maarten – The Health and Social Insurances Agency (SZV) has contracted St. Maarten SuperHost to give customer service training to its employees. The actual training will begin near the end of January now that the Customer Service Training and C
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 8, 2012
St. Maarten – Next week’s inter-parliamentary consultation on the Kingdom will potentially cost tax payers nearly 100, 000 guilders. The final budget approved by the Central Committee on Friday is 92, 587.15 guilders and covers all costs related
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 8, 2012
St. Maarten – Governor drs Eugene Holiday has called for the establishment of a law faculty at the University of St. Martin, the establishment of a St. Maarten Philharmonic Orchestra and a Center for the Performing Arts as part of “moving the cou
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 8, 2012
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has sent notes of congratulations to three new Caribbean leaders who took office either late in 2011 or early in 2012. The three leaders in sequence of installation are St. Lucian Prime Minister Dr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 8, 2012
Great Salt Pond needs Long Term Solutions St. Maarten - Environmental Protection in the Caribbean’s (Epic) local representative Rueben Thompson has predicted another round of large scale fish deaths in the Great Salt Pond within a few days becau
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 8, 2012
St. Maarten – Police Chief Peter De Witte has announced that Oyster Pond, St. Peters and Dutch Quarter will see increased police presence in 2012 because of the swelling of the force’s ranks. Oyster Pond, which is described as a “picturesque ma
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 8, 2012
St. Maarten – Denicio Richardson submitted an “extensive and elaborate response” to the board and the shareholder representative of the Postal Services St. Maarten PSS, his attorney Mr. Wim van Sambeek stated in a brief email. In the response,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – The Collective Prevention Service (CPS), a public health agency of the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour has warned people who may have been exposed to tuberculosis or who have it to strictly follow their medica
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Freedom Party spokesman for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom Eric Lucassen and Curacao’s Pueblo Soberano leader Helmin Wiels will be among the parliamentarians that visit St. Maarten for the inter-parliamentary Kingdom Conference
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – The Parliament’s secretariat was strengthened with two new employees who started at the beginning of this month: acting Secretary General Nancy Joubert and second acting SG Van Dyke Bell. Joubert comes from the government’s depart
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
The Friendly Island is still a safe place for journalists to work. Sure we have been threatened a couple of times – once even by a member of the current cabinet – but no shots have been fired and the threats did not go further than a war or words
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
Uncontrolled algae growth causes foul stench St. Maarten – Vice President of the St. Maarten Pride Foundation Reuben Thompson says that the “thick green slimy water” snaking its way to the Fresh Pond from the Great Salt Pond is nature fina
