St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2010
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St. Maarten---The St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association recognized Dennis Richardson and Richard Gibson sr. for their outstanding contribution and commitment in achieving the new constitutional change for St. Maarten and awarded them with t
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on November 29, 2010
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St. Maarten - The Central Committee meeting of St. Maarten Parliament of last Friday will continue this afternoon at three o’clock in the A.C. Wathey Legislative Hall to discuss the selection of Members of Parliament for the Parlatino permanent com
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2010
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St. Maarten – The illegal land reclamation behind the old location of the BBW cement factory was already well underway in 2007. Former prosecutor Paul Mooij made an aerial picture of the site available to this newspaper that shows the situation o
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2010
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Marigot, St. Martin – Dozens of people took part in a white march through the streets of Marigot Saturday morning to commemorate murder victim Pascal Delalosa, an employee of the First Deco store located at the Rue de Hollande. The participants, a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2010
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St. Maarten – Public Works has started executing a road repair program worth 1.6 million guilders (around US$890,000). Yesterday contractor Windward Roads resurfaced large parts of Bush Road between the Shell gas station at the corner of Zagersgu
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2010
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St. Maarten – Minister of Economic and Tourism Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications Franklin Meyers, met with representatives of Curacao’s Meteorological Services to discuss a draft one-year proposal for a service level agreement.
Entertainment - Posted by admin on November 26, 2010
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St. Maarten – Eight women of different riding ability and background will put on their first riding show at Seaside Nature Park on Sunday December 5. Entrance is free. The performance will run from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and has a Spanish Fiest
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – Aldo Roberto Santana Rivera, 18, has already been sent back to his native Dominican Republic, but that did not stop the Court in First Instance from sentencing him to 4 months imprisonment for two burglaries he committed on July 30 an
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – A temporary head of the Inspectorate of Public Health will arrive next week to lead the organization until early 2011. Minister of Public Health, Social Development & Labor Maria Buncamper-Molanus said the person will likely serve unt
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – Even though a new postal company has been set up the management of New Post Netherlands Antilles has not ceded control. The five day caretaker Executive Council created St. Maarten Postal Services N.V. (SMPS) to take over the shares
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – The Council of Ministers has approved the set up of a Gazette in which it will publish Resolutions, Ordinances and Ministerial Decrees. The set up is part of the Publication Regulation, which also states that decrees will be numbered
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – Members of Parliament (MPs) had a raging debate on Wednesday and the name of Cassandra Janssen was mentioned more than once. National Alliance (N.A.) MPs queried why the move was being made to appoint Franklin Hanze and Amador Mulle
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – Junior Wayne Gardiner, a 35-year-old Rastafarian from Jamaica, became a free man again after his trial for importing 1,230 grams of marijuana to St. Maarten on October 2. The Court in First Instance sentenced the defendant to 7 months
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – At times it sounded entertaining and almost believable, but in the end Michiel Marcelino Kruythoff, a 51-year-old from Curacao with a serious drug and alcohol addiction who has seen the inside of the courthouse numerous times, had to
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has announced that urgent attention is being given to amongst other things the financial situation at Windward Islands Airways International (WINAIR). She’s tasked Former Aviation Affairs Commiss
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten –Iris Kramer, who works in the Dutch Representation in Philipsburg, recently handed over US$ 4, 000 worth of Bright Ideas Science workbooks to the management of the Christian Hillside School. The books were purchased from the Small Pr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – An announcement that Inspector Carlton Phillips and the Public Prosecutors Office have reached an agreement does not single an end to the matter. His former attorney Reynold Groeneveldt, now the country’s Acting Governor, says they
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – Chad Elvyn Depusoir, a 24-year-old from St. Kitts will have some time to regret his visit to St. Maarten, after the Court in First Instance sentenced him to 60 months imprisonment for his role in an armed robbery at the Cuchara Alegre
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2010
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St. Maarten – Tuesday was dubbed the ‘Day of the Catholics.’ On that day students from all the island’s catholic schools met at the L.B Scott Sports Auditorium for activities that are part of a week of Catholic celebrations. The theme is �
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2010
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Marigot, St. Martin - Leader of the Opposition Party in the Territorial Council Alain Richardson has called for fresh elections in St. Martin. He believes that President of the Collectivity Frantz Gumbs and his faction should resign. He also opined t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2010
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THE HAGUE – St. Maarten, Curacao and Aruba have to formulate their vision about the Kingdom’s future sooner rather than later to facilitate a sensible debate about the issue, members of the permanent parliamentarian committees for Kingdom Relatio
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2010
St. Maarten – Members of Parliament have come to general agreement that the Parliament of St. Maarten will become a member of the Latin American Parliamentary grouping (PARLATINO). Their agreement in principle was given during a Central Committee
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2010
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St. Maarten – The St. Maarten Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed yesterday that an investigation has started into allegations of vote-selling by two police officers and a member of the VKS ahead of the September 17 elections. Two weeks ago, the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2010
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St. Maarten – “In short, government governs, and the Parliament controls.” Those simple and clear words are how candidate Council of State member and former Project Director for Constitutional Affairs Dennis Richardson described the island’s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2010
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St. Maarten – Mr. J.G. Bloem, the attorney for Regina Labega and Edward Dest, filed a request with the court for civil servants affairs at the end of the afternoon yesterday for a temporary provision. Labega and Dest, director and head of marketing
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2010
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St. Maarten - It would take eleven male African elephants standing head to tail to match the width of the Celebrity Eclipse which is 121 feet wide (36.8 meters) and more than nine fully grown blue whales to match its length which is 1,033 feet (315
The last available figures about solved robberies in St. Maarten dates back to 2008. In that year, detectives solved 51 robberies, a mere 17.44 percent of the total. The Netherlands was doing better in this field until recently; in 2004, the score wa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - Pelican Heart, an anthology of poems by Lasana M. Sekou was launched in Mexico at the 10th Conference of the Caribbean Book on november 11, according to the Mexican Association of Caribbean Studies (AMEC). The poetry of the St.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - Police confirmed the death of Maria Del Carmen-Ramirez on Monday. She was one of two people who was taken from a Brime Road home 11:00 a.m. last Thursday. Her male companion Nando Muelssen died that day and she succumbed Sunday
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - In its continuous effort to educate the population of St. Maarten, the Chapter of Professional Young People (CPYP) will be presenting a lecture on the dualistic system of government. This system is based on the total separation o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - In order to mitigate an increase in cost for call credit, UTS has decided to offer more specials. The change takes effect today and the new rate is US$ 1 to NAfls 1.79. The change had to be made because of currency regulations establ
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - The average cost of consumer goods, measured with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropped for the first time in nearly two years during August. New figures released Monday by the Department of Statistics show a 0.3 percent drop when comp
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - The archives at the Civil Registry (Census Office) will be digitized. Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and USONA's representative Udo Aron signed the two year financing agreement totalling NAfls 450,000 for the project on Monday in
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - The Standard Trust Company stands to lose its license if the Court in First Instance sentences the business and its three directors for money laundering, forgery and failing to report unusual financial transactions to the MOT, defense a
St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on November 23, 2010
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St. Maarten - It took the Super Six Volleyball team just three sets to put the Nitro team, who clinched one set, in the shadows when the action in the 2010 St. Maarten Volleybal Association (SIMVA) competition resumed last Saturday at LB Scott Sports
