Against a background of the freshly installed picture of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima Prime Minister Wescot-Williams makes her case against dissolving the parliament. Photo Pearl FM 98.1St. Maarten - ...
President of the Windward Islands Teachers Union Claire Elshot addressing the members of the media at the Wiclu press conference yesterday morning.St. Maarten – “Badness outa style,” is how the ...
Morgan stands still for a few seconds between Mark Reid Sr and Fabian Steele after glancing briefly at the window on the tiny white coffin where her two month old ...
The Carnival Dream in the harbor of Philipsburg yesterday afternoon. Photo Today/Milton PietersSt. Maarten – The Carnival Dream cruise ship, as part of the Carnival Cruise Line, remained docked at ...
The characteristic building of Guava berry Emporium on Front Street. Photo Today / Hilbert HaarSt. Maarten – Soft loans have been secured for the restoration of two of St. Maarten’s ...
SDF President Charlotte Peterson and Rotary Mid Isle President Jon Hart.St. Maarten – The Rotary Club Mid Isle presented the St. Maarten Diabetes Foundation (SDF) with a donation of $1,500 ...
Leon Wilson poses with the kids at Port de Plaisance. Photo contributed.St. Maarten - Last week Wednesday students of Sister Regina School in Simpson Bay were given a tour of ...
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – Several civil servants from the civil service corps of country Sint Maarten participated in a seminar recently in Berlin, Germany with respect to European Union (EU) ...
Airport’s Managing Director, Regina Labega (left) and Marketing Manager, Kalifa Hickinson (right) watch as Dutch Representative Gert Versluis takes a look at the token gift he received after their meeting ...
Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams together with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Jacobs revealing the solar panels at the library yesterday afternoon.St. Maarten –Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams joined Deputy Prime Minister ...
Minister of Culture Silveria Jacobs, Tammy Richardson, Prime Minister Wescot-Williams and Gregory Richardson holding the book written by the Richardson siblings at the book presentation yesterday at the University of ...
MP Patrick Illidge answers questions from reporters at the airport upon his return to St. Maarten on March 10. Photo Today / Leo BrownSt. Maarten – Independent MP Patrick Illidge ...
St. Maarten - The Princess Juliana International Airport has been voted the “most stunning landing” in the world by travel fans around the globe, the airport stated in a press ...
International teacher of the Art of Living Foundation Dushyant Savadia addressing the participants of Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. St. Maarten – The Art of Living Foundation added an important ingredient to ...
Meyshane J., who faces a life sentence for killing Thelma and Michael King, leaves the courthouse with bent head. Photo Today / Milton PietersSt. Maarten – Defense attorneys went out ...
Left to right is the treasurer of the SMHSF Cleon Frederick, Secretary Farina Amjad, President Martha Thewet and Marlene Mingo, of MF Mingo BV, Notary offering a congratulatory hand shake ...
The causeway swing bridge is putting in place in this contributed photoSt. Maarten – Harbor Group of Companies Chief Executive Officer Mark Mingo announced yesterday that the causeway swing bridge ...
St. Maarten - The joint parliamentary majority of the United People’s Party/Democratic Party /Romain Laville coalition reacted to Monday’s adjournment of the plenary session called to discuss a vote of ...
[caption id="attachment_22419" align="alignleft" width="550"] Former head of the Finance Department Bas Roorda during the EenVandaag broadcast on Tuesday. Photo screenshot EenVandaag.[/caption] St. Maarten – Financial supervision does not function properly. Bas ...
UP-leader Theo Heyliger shakes hands with National Alliance MP Dr. Lloyd Richardson at the start of Monday’s meeting of parliament. Photo sxmislandtime.com / Samuel AllenSt. Maarten – For the first time ...
Minister Roland Duncan personally signed the management contract with Richbenzwan. Photo DCOMMWhen Richbenzwan N.V. signed a 10-year management contract with Hypnotic Hotel and Entertainment back in 2009 for the management ...
The Dutch news program EenVandaag depicted yesterday Justice Minister Roland Duncan this way with strip club Bada Bing in the background. Photo Screenshot EenVandaag.St. Maarten – The Patrick Illidge bribery ...
St. Maarten - While the apparent cause for the thick patches of smoke that mushroomed from the dump site on Pond Island since early yesterday morning could not be ascertained, ...
From left to right Christopher Emmanuel, teacher Mary Victor, adjunct school manager Lucia Kroon, Kalifa Hickinson, manager marketing and communications at the airport and students of the Dr. Martin Luther ...
Left, President of Parliament Rodolphe Samuel and Secretary General to Parliament Josef Semeleer, Council of State Vice President Piet Hein Donner (second right), Council of State Secretary H.H.C. Visser (third ...
Students at the Genevieve de Weever School get assistance from Governor Holiday.St. Maarten –Governor Eugène Holiday paid a working visit on Wednesday to the Marie Genevieve De Weever Primary School. ...
Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams is flanked by kids of Winair staff and members of the Winair Activity Committee for a rare photo opportunity. St. Maarten –Unlike the previous day when several ...
The entrance to the Seaman’s Club in Sucker Garden. Photo Today / Hilbert HaarSt. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – In the sixties of the last century a Japanese fishing company ...
St. Maarten - Irene Serfilia celebrated 40 years of working in the health sector for the government of St. Maarten and Public Health Minister Cornelius De Weever congratulated her with ...
The graduates of the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine at the Commencement ceremonies which was held at Sonesta Maho on Saturday morning. Photo Today/Andrew BishopSt. Maarten—The Faculty ...
mr. Tamara Tijhuis new Judge of InstructionSt. Maarten – Judge Koen Luijks – currently the Judge of Instruction in St. Maarten – will succeed Judge René van Veen per August ...
The Telegraaf depicted St. Maarten yesterday as a Mafia state. Photo Telegraaf / PluisSt. Maarten – Readers did not disappoint the editors of the Telegraaf with their answers to the ...
Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the National Alliance William Marlin announcing the resignation of the outgoing ministers during a press conference yesterday afternoon. Marlin: ‘New elections are the answer to ...
Shirma Roberts flanked by Toastmaster’s President Yvette Dupuis, (right) and Immediate Past President Alicia Etienne-Seaton.St. Maarten – The Disciples Toastmasters Club (DTMC) has added three new members with the induction ...
Deputy Prime Minister William Marlin addressing the media during an urgent press conference at the A.C Wathey Legislative Hall yesterday afternoonSt. Maarten – “Let’s go to the polls,” Deputy Prime ...
Left to right, SCDF Board Member Mr. Radjouki, Kaiso Brat, Paul Dijkhoffz, Executive Marketing Manager at Nagico, Fish Da Mega Boss, Vincent Haakmat, managing Director of I.T and Roxxy.St. Maarten ...
The stranded Carnival Dream in port in St. Maarten on March 13. Photo Today / Milton PietersSt. Maarten - While there is no question Carnival Cruise Lines' image has been ...
St. Maarten - Somebody came up with what turned out to be a bright idea to print a few t-shirts with the words, ‘ SHIP HAPPENS, Carnival Dream 2013, St ...
Rueben Thompson hands the check to Diana Atmowapiro. Photo contributedGREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association SHTA recently assisted the VSBO-TKL section of Milton Peters College (MPC) ...
From left to right: The inspectors together with Acting Secretary General of Ministry VROMI Louis Brown (2nd from left) and Minister of Justice Roland Duncan (6th from left). Photo DCOMMSt. ...
The ‘Survivors’ by Jasmine Philips make their way along the final stretch of road on the Pond Fill before entering the Festival Village after creating a lasting impression on the ...
The Colombian Consul (l) in the meeting with (l.t.r.) Udo Aron, Jorien Wuite, Minister de Weever and Prime Minister Wescot-Williams. Photo Cabinet Prime Minister.St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams ...
St. Maarten – The national ordinance that regulates the prosecution of politicians has come anew under scrutiny after a publication in the Telegraaf on Saturday. Under the headline: "Alarming study shows: ...
A sign points towards the beach bar on Cupecoy Beach. To the left the boulders are visible that block access to the adjoining property and that make it impossible for ...
Author Ed Arre. Photo Today / Hilbert HaarMARIGOT, St. Martin – St. Gregory is author Ed Arre’s fictional version of St. Maarten - a place where the Chief Prosecutor is ...
From left to right: President Rodolphe Samuel receiving a copy of the draft 2013 budget from Minister of Finance Roland Tuitt last week Friday.St. Maarten – For the first time ...
Gang leader Omar Jones is led into the courthouse in this June 6, 2012 file photo. Photo Today / Milton Pieters.St. Maarten – Four suspects have been detained and interrogated ...
Prime Minister Wescot-Williams together with the representative of the National Government of the Netherlands, Wilbert Stolte (left)St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams met with the representative of the National ...
You can call this water sport, wet sport or a simple duel of hoses, what is shown is this photograph which was taken on Jouvert morning has become one of ...
DP faction leader Roy Marlin addresses the media while Leroy de Weever and Gracita Arrindell look on. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar Majority of eight wants “all noses in the same ...
The Cabinet of Curacao’s Minister Plenipotentiary Roy Pieters in The Hague opened a condolence register for tributes to Helmin Wiels.WILLEMSTAD – Shock, unbelief, anger and sadness were the prevailing sentiments ...
The calypso-coup: in the night of April 28 to April 29, 2012, MPs Illidge, Laville and Frans Richardson (l.t.r.) celebrated the fall of the first Wescot-Williams cabinet. Photo Today / ...
King Willem Alexander and queen Máxima in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam on Tuesday.AMSTERDAM – King Willem Alexander succeeded H.M. Queen Beatrix on Tuesday during a historic ceremony in the ...
St. Maarten - Alain Duzant had two of the six images that was nominated by the judges, but it was a photo from Bernie Verhoeven that produced the wow factor; ...
Miss Pitchounette 2013 Miss Benjamin is assisted by President of the FCDSM Philipe Richardson and President of the Collectivitee, Alain Richardson with the cutting of the symbolic ribbon to declare ...
Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams during one of her U 2 Can Move campaigns. St. Maarten –Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams will continue her U 2 Can Move fitness campaign with zumba classes ...
MP Gracita Arrindell and Lawyer HijmansSt. Maarten – MP Gracita Arrindell met with Lawyer Hijmans earlier this week, to discuss further preparations of the objectives to introduce a draft law ...
St. Maarten – In an effort to continue to further professionalize the operations of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and to equip ambulances and expand the level of care in ...
UP-leader Theo Heyliger (l) in the company of casino-boss Francesco Corallo (with glasses) and his poker room manager Pepe on April 30, 2012 at the Waikiki Beach bar in Orient ...
Members of the ID-card committee in the Emilio Wilson Park: From left to right X-Rey, Daniella Jeffry, André Patrick, Elton Jones and Dr. Aurelius Scot. Photo contributed.GREAT BAY – The ...
From left to right: Police Chief Commissioner Peter De Witte, President of Parliament Rodolphe Samuel, Governor Eugene Holiday, Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, Deputy Prime Minister William Marlin and NA Faction ...
Students with their certificates after they conducted the Girl Power program of the Aids Foundation. GREAT BAY – St Maarten Aids Foundation, in collaboration with Sector Public Health, delivered the Girl ...
VVD Parliamentarian André BosmanSt. Maarten – VVD Parliamentarian André Bosman keeps hammering St. Maarten over its perceived inability to deal with corruption. In Monday’s Telegraaf he is quoted on the ...
Editorial - Posted on April 17, 2012
Two stories we run today show that the country’s justice chain is still not where it should be and there is a need for those in charge to continue to crack the whip and ensure that things continue at a fluid pace. Being expedient though should not
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 17, 2012
Employees of the Simpson Bay branch of the Scotia Bank talk with customers while wearing stethoscopes linked to a new campaign. (Leo Brown photos)St. Maarten - Visitors to Scotia’s Bank Simpson Bay branch may be surprised to learn that the employee
Opinion - Posted on April 17, 2012
It is interesting that the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. is interested in buying the Simpson Bay Resort and Marina in Pelican Key. Interesting because the tribe has a history indigenous St. Maarteners ought to feel a connection with. It is also int
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted on April 17, 2012
Democracy and Curacao seem to have a hard time together. The latest development in this soap opera is the reaction by Minister of Plenipotentiary Sheldry Osepa to a broadcast on Dutch TV in the news program Brandpunt. Opposition parliamentarians Oma
Uncategorized - Posted on April 17, 2012
From left to right - Toastmaster Dwight Carbon, Speech Contest Winner Leopold Merrick, Area Governor Annette Berkel, Table Topic Winner Danaё Daal and Toastmaster Ludmila York-Duncan at the end of Saturday’s speech competition.St. Maarten - Ph
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
Acquilla “Princess Acquilla” Carty, who’s captured the Jr. Calypso title for the first time and Rickyshio ‘The Royal Kid’ Bertie, who has won the Jr. Road March title for the third time hug each other after the results were announced in
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
Bus Drivers Association President Jose Slac (second from left) joins his fellow bus drivers with the thumbs down sign, signaling their dissatisfaction for the fare structure that is in place during the emergency meeting last Saturday. (Milton Pie
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – The Seminole Tribe of Florida will not finalize any purchase of the Simpson Bay Resort and rebrand it as a Hard Rock resort until the labor situation has been resolved, director Mark Miller wrote to the members of the embattled resort
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – Nominations are now open for the 2012 St. Maarten Outstanding Youth Awards (Smoya). The Smoya program recognizes and honors young people between six and 21 who demonstrate the best qualities of St. Maarten’s youth. Eligible candidat
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Directors of Gebe Julius Lambert (center – facing forward) makes a point during the April 10 meeting where Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications Franklin Meyers (second
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – The Police’s Traffic Department is investigating what led the driver of a Toyota Yaris to collide with Thrifty Car Rental’s concrete wall. The collision occurred shortly after 3:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. The police report that
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – The meeting requested by St. Maarten’s Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto on to accusations made and current developments surrounding the Central Bank of Curaçao and St, Maarten (CBCS) has been postponed. The meeting was set to take p
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
(l-r) Arden Froston of Labor Affairs, Sei participant Anouska Brooks and Minister of Public Health Social Development and Labor, Cornelius De Weever after Brooks signed her participant agreement contract.St. Maarten - The Department of Labor Affa
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – Solicitor General Taco Stein is currently working on his own, while efforts are undertaken to staff his office. He expects this process to be completed sooner, rather than later and announced recently that he’ll make his first court
Opinion - Posted on April 16, 2012
Dear Editor, WITU’s proposal for the Advisory Body to Government (GOA), to have the Algemeen Pensioenfonds St. Maarten (APS) give a presentation was honored last week Friday in the Dr. A.C. Wathey Legislative Hall in Philipsburg. It was very rem
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – The Central Committee of Parliament will meet in a closed session on April 17 to discuss an aviation proposal. The meeting with Garrison Walker Financial Inc. begins at 10:00 a.m. in the General Assembly Chamber at the House of Parlia
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – Tamarind Hotel has risen to the top position over 12 other St. Maarten hotels listed on www.tripadvisor.com. The property has been steadily climbing in the rankings since November of last year when it was number 9 on the list. Some mo
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
Dawn Beach resident wins lawsuit against hotel giant St. Maarten - The Babitbay Beach Development Corporation, owner of the Westin Hotel in Dawn Beach, has until Friday May 11 to adjust its sewage treatment plant in such a way that the sound l
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
Heirs have to provide account of their estate St. Maarten – The heirs of Norman Chester Wathey booked a partial victory in summary proceedings against Norman Chester Wathey II, formerly Leopold Stanley Hughes on Friday. But Wathey II, who has be
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten- Not even the rain could have dampened the spirits of the hundreds of revelers that dared the elements to participate in Saturday night’s Light Up jump-up, which was organized by Rio Productions. The jump up went from Le Grand Marche to
Editorial, St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
Westin’s loss in court for being a noisy neighbor should lead to a resurgence of a control on noise pollution that was started by the Department of Economic Affairs of the Island Territory of St. Maarten. The friendly country’s predecessor had th
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – Police arrested and detained two young men early Sunday morning after getting a call at 6:30 a.m. that shots were being fired near Margereth Bruce’s Drive in Middle Region. The person who called police said the gun man had brown com
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 16, 2012
St. Maarten – The Special Robbery Unit is investigating Saturday night’s attempted robbery of L.L. and L.H. who live on the Apricot road. Children inside the house they had just arrived at were the ones to call police about the robbery at around
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
Hoteliers expecting good first quarter St. Maarten - Hotel occupancy rates may soon show an upward trend for the first quarter of the year. The official figures are expected next week but Executive Director of the St.Maarten Hospitality and Trade
Opinion - Posted on April 15, 2012
The new Middle Region Road is banging but not quite in the way our youth use that expression! The M.R. Road at this moment is definitely “leading” to the “crazy-house”. How so? Well, that’s where all the people who live alongside it will ev
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Sucker Garden got the first in a series of Gifted fun days recently. Many parents, children and friends turned out to the Melford Hazel Sports Complex for the Easter treat,‘FunDay Monday,’ on April 9 that the Gifted Foundation co-ho
Opinion - Posted on April 15, 2012
That living an unhealthy lifestyle is a bad idea sounds a bit like a no-brainer. Yet, all around us we see people doing exactly that. They eat too much, they eat unhealthy, they drink and smoke like there is no tomorrow and they’ve forgotten how to
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten – Chief Public Prosecutor Hans Mos led the office in congratulating Ludwina Hodge-Sprok on 35 years in government service on Thursday. Hodge-Sprok started her career at the Psychiatric Hospital in Curacao on April 1, 1977 and has contin
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
Attorneys have a weapon in their arsenal that they seldom use: the right to challenge a judge. The objective of such a challenge is to force the judge to withdraw from a case and to let it be handled by someone else. When the attorneys for the Wifol
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten – Marcellina Loblack of the Department of Labor will be traveling to Aruba on April 15 to participate in an internship at the mediator’s office there. The reason for this internship is to ensure continuity with regard to public servic
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Beyond Writing Foundation has finalized its very first audio book ‘Overseas Bloodline’. The new audio book, which is read by Sharon Freiburg, is also a first for the country. Freiburg was selected as the voice for the book last Aug
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten - We have always wondered whether those idiots whose idea of fun is to hang on the fence at the end of the airport runway are plain crazy or simply suicidal. And now some dumbass has injured herself – courtesy of a departing Jet Blue pl
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten - ISD Distributers launched “an exceptional line of cleaning products” which is expected to revolutionize the cleaning industry on the islands at the Sonesta Maho Beach Resort and Casino on Wednesday evening. Even though the turnout t
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten – The attorney for Maurice Lake – Roeland Zwanniken – has requested by letter dated April 12, that the Soualiga Movement of Social Justice, Reginald Arrindell, Rene “Koto” Wilson and Natasha Manuel “refrain from slandering the
St. Maarten News - Posted on April 15, 2012
St. Maarten - On March 1, 2012, Philipsburg resident Swinda Richardson did what she had been doing for the last 15 years. She bought her lucky number 32211 from Landsloterij. The ticket cost 3.50 guilders but Richardson was a bit hopeful that it woul
