St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 5, 2013
From left to right: Romain Renoux (Reserve Naturelle), Maureen Wilkins (sales manager Shipwreck Shops), Tadzio Bervoets (Nature Foundation), and John Leone (Commercial Manager International Liquors and Tobacco)St. Maarten - Nature Foundation St.
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on February 5, 2013
THE HAGUE – Fledgling political party 50Plus would win 12 seats in the 150-seat parliament if there were a general election tomorrow, according to a new opinion poll of Maurice de Hond. The party, which focuses on the over-50s and the impact of
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on February 5, 2013
WILLEMSTAD – Top athlete Brian Mariano was sentenced on yesterday on Curacao by the Court in First Instance to a term of 12 months imprisonment, of which 6 are conditional and 3 year probation. The case was dealt substantively yesterday, when he wa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 5, 2013
THE HAGUE – Pressure is mounting on Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem to take some sort of action against the former senior executives of financial services group SNS Reaal, which was nationalized on Friday. Labor leader Diederik Samsom told
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 5, 2013
PORT-OF-SPAIN - RBC Capital Markets, working in conjunction with RBC Merchant Bank (Caribbean) Limited, successfully placed a US$300 Million Amortising Bond issue (consistent with US Reg S and 144A markets) for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 5, 2013
St. Maarten - In the St. Martin Pony League playoff series for the 2012 -2013 youth baseball championship the number one seat St. James Yankees defeated the Dutch Quarter Dodgers 16-4 to put their team one step closer to the finals. The game began
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten - The Police Force of St. Maarten is launching a road safety campaign, aimed at creating awareness and changing driving behavior in an effort to minimize the number of road fatalities and traffic accidents. The campaign is supported by Na
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten – Did the Democratic Party faction ask for a central committee meeting about Facta or about Fatca? A media report stating that MPs Leroy de Weever and Roy Marlin want a meeting to discuss the consequences for local businesses of legisla
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Roland Tuitt and Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams announced the first digital service to the public on its online service portal eLogin. It became active on Friday as part of digitalizing government services (e-Go
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten - On the occasion of the upcoming inauguration of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, the Oranje Fonds organizes a special edition of the ‘Appeltjes van Oranje’. The public is requested to choose the most precious social initia
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten - Over 200 invited guests gathered at gate A1 of the Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) on Saturday evening for a presentation of the airport’s rebranding. Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, Deputy Prime Minister William
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten - The Prime Minister’s U 2 Can Move campaign will continue in 2013 with its first activity slated for next Thursday, February 7. The fitness program that targets functioning civil servants has been expanded. On Wednesday, the prime mi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten – The Meteorological Department of St. Maarten (Met) has released a climate summary for last year. This summary contains weather data that has been recorded at the Princess Juliana International Airport, a review of the 2012 hurricane s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Senior Pensioner Association announced that members are able to pay their membership fees on the first Tuesday of every month between 10 a.m. and 12 noon at the John Larmonie Center in Philipsburg. These Tuesdays are als
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten - New recipients of bus and taxi licenses participated in a mandatory training last week evening at the Justice Academy in Dutch Quarter. This training was organized by Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs, Transportation and Teleco
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten – The boyfriend of disappeared Annmarie Lynch will appear before the Judge of Instruction today. He was arrested on Thursday. Contrary to what this newspaper reported based on information from the prosecutor’s office, the boyfriend, P
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten -The Social Economic Council (SER) concluded a series of workshops entitled “SER’s past and present” conducted by the Training and Development Institute of eminent labor relations expert Clarence Richardson. In separate courses for
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten - Beyond Writing Foundation will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year. President Loekie Morales said in a press release that the foundation’s year plan of activities is ready and that BWF will execute several projects designed to en
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten – Head of the Department of Economic Affairs Lucy Richardson, and Head of the Civil Registry Leona Romeo-Marlin, completed the European Seminar on “Risk Management in the Public Sector” last week. The seminar took place in Berli
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten – Minister of Public Health Cornelius de Weever says today, marks World Cancer Day. Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and affects everyone – the young and old, the rich and poor, men, women and children – accounting for
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 4, 2013
St. Maarten - Week two in the St Maarten Soccer Educational Foundation’s interscholastic tournament was highlighted by the 11-0l victory by the MPC Stars over the Christian Hillside team in the U-13 category when the competition resumed on Saturday
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
THE HAGUE – Casino boss Francesco Corallo has lost his lawsuit against the Dutch state. The court in the Hague ruled yesterday that the state does not have to rectify claims in a letter from the former Dutch ambassador in Rome Fons Stoelinga to the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten - The government plans to draft and ratify its own national decree for the screening of ministers. “We have been executing that process of the screening of ministers on the basis of a decree of the former Netherlands Antilles,” Pri
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten –A large delegation of family and friends of the murdered American couple Thelma and Michael King flocked to the courthouse yesterday afternoon for the appeal hearing of Meyshane Kemar J., the main suspect in this murder case. The defen
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten - The government is looking keenly at the way the Constitutional Court will handle the petition of the Ombudsman for an annulment of three articles in the Penal Code. Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, during yesterday’s Council of M
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten – In February of last year, Franklin B.M. de W. walked out of the courthouse a free man after the court found him guilty of seriously injuring a woman who turned out to be a psychiatric patient with rocks on May 4, 2011. But the court d
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten – The Meteorological Department of St. Maarten (Met) has released a climate summary for last year. This summary contains weather data that has been recorded at the Princess Juliana International Airport, a review of the 2012 hurricane s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten – The Ministry of Public Health Social Development and Labor Cornelius de Weever is urging employers to provide their employees with pay slips, which is based on the law, Book 7A title 7A of the Civil Code. Minister Cornelius De Weev
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams joined the festivities celebrating Indian Republic Day at the Belair Community Center on Tuesday evening. The Prime Minister congratulated the gathering on behalf of the government on the celebration
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
Carl Housen (l), Carl and Son’s Bakery and Manohar Bijlani of Dutch Delight. Photo courtesy Rotary.St. Maarten - For Rotary Awareness month, the Rotary club of St. Martin Sunrise honored two of its long standing club supporters and Friends of R
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
Minister Cornelius De Weever with the Management of Gebe and contractors in front of the old water tank in Point Blanche.St. Maarten –Minister Cornelius De Weever and the management of Gebe made a site visit to the location in Pointe Blanche last w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten – Sheldon Ferando H. claimed it was all the fault of a 12-year-old girl whom he claimed he thought to be seventeen, but the victim of his sexual desires had told investigators a different story. When she went to the defendant’s home t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams hopes to see a speedy handling of the draft timeshare legislation in Parliament. The legislation was recently presented by Democratic Party MP Leroy de Weever, who was commended by Wescot-Williams
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Jeanroy Johnny Quetant to 36 months of imprisonment for attempted manslaughter on a man on October 18 of last year. The 24-year-old was put under 2 years of probation. Of the sentence, 12 months a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 31, 2013
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Ricardo Leopold Mitchell to 36 months imprisonment for an armed robbery at the Christina Bar on Illidge Road on March 2, 2012. Of the sentence 6 months are suspended; the court imposed 3 years of
