St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 9, 2010
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St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan announced Wednesday that revamps to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure will be given a St. Maarten flavor. He’s committed to doing so despite pressure from the Dutch Government to app
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 9, 2010
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St. Maarten - Afro picks, retractable blades, combs, lighters and smoking paraphernalia were among the items confiscated by police in Wednesday morning’s impromptu search of school buses. Wednesday’s search comes days after a similar exercise an
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 9, 2010
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St. Maarten – Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor Maria Buncamper-Molanus expects to receive the first draft of amendments to the policy on the employment of foreign nationals on Friday. The changes focus on criteria like the ag
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten – The trial against two brothers and two accomplices allegedly involved in transporting 600 kilos of cocaine from St. Maarten to the Netherlands might come to nothing if the Public Prosecutor’s Office declares itself inadmissible in t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 9, 2010
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St. Maarten - The Council of Ministers appointed three dispatchers for the St. Maarten Ambulance Department during its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday. Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor Maria Buncamper Molanus did the ann
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 9, 2010
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St. Maarten – Eco-Green N.V., the company that bought the economic ownership of a piece of land Minister Maria Buncamper-Molanus and her husband Claudius held in long lease on Pond Island, was registered at the Chamber of Commerce on December 16, 2
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St. Maarten – Convicted fraudster and forger Derrick Holiday has been appointed Labor Mediator. The former St. Maarten Chief Commissioner of Police will work along side the current mediator Kenneth Lopes, who will stand down in April 2011. Both men
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 2, 2010
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St. Maarten – The Council of Ministers have gotten a lesson in how far they can go when it comes to issuing a Ministerial Decree. They’re learning from an error made specifically by Minister of Economic Affairs, Tourism, Transport & Telecommuni
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 2, 2010
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St. Maarten – The Public Prosecutor’s Office in St. Maarten dismissed a record 36.9 percent of the criminal cases it registered last year. Out of 1,079 cases, the office dropped 397, 66 more than it dismissed in 2008. In 2007 the number of droppe
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 2, 2010
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St. Maarten - The Court in First Instance sentenced Curacaolenean Urvin Ignatius Pieternella yesterday to 3 years imprisonment for setting up a drug deal involving 27 kilos of cocaine. With the sentence a drugs case dating back more than four years
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 2, 2010
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St. Maarten - Minister of Education, Culture, Youth & Sport Rhoda Arrindell says her and the Acting Secretary General have been able to cut at least 50 percent of the Ministry’s budget. The cutting was done in a “point for point and post for po
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 1, 2010
St. Maarten – Live Red. Show Love. With that slogan the HIV/Aids program management team enters the fourth year of campaigning for awareness and a better understanding of the disease. Today is World Aids Day, an appropriate moment to take stock o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 1, 2010
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St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, who is the Shareholder Representative for the Telem Group of Companies, intends to review the format of the committee seeking a strategic partner for the company needs to be renewed. She made he
