St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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“Why does Sucker Garden always get the bad end of the stick?” St. Maarten – “Sucker Garden is the forgotten district. Nobody does anything for the young people here. It is dirty, the place needs a cleanup. These youngsters have no educatio
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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Americans won’t get back home until next week St. Maarten / By Milton G Pieters - The Adams family, residents of Newark in New Jersey came to St Maarten to spend one week in St. Maarten, but Hurricane Irene changed all that. The family is among
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – Captain-at-sea Ed Veen administered the oath to three new crew members aboard the Hr. Ms. Johan de Witt last Friday. Normally, these ceremonies take place at the home port of Den Helder, but this time the location was the Caribbean Se
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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MAHO, St. Maarten – The police have identified Sunday’s drowning victim as 33-year-old Nicolas Paul Manji Sagar from the United Kingdom. When his friends did not see him come to the nightclub he visited regularly they started looking for him at a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten - A group of around 120 Royal Dutch Marines and the navy ship HMS Pelican, are until September 7 in the Windward Islands for their annual hurricane exercise Hurex. The marines already did training with the fire Department in St. Maarten l
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – Media reports about the missing Victor Thomas from Betty’s Estate inspired the Rotary Alzheimer’s Awareness Committee to submit an article about wandering, chairlady Maria Buncamper-Molanus stated in a press release. This is the a
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – The family of Gerald Christopher James laments the fact that the gendarmerie still has not made an arrest in the murder-investigation. James, who would have turned 19 yesterday, was shot to death in a house in St. Georges on the Frenc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – The Freedom Fighters organize a family day on Kimsha Beach this Sunday to honor the memory of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., the Jamaican publisher, journalist and entrepreneur who fought for black nationalism and pan-Africanism. Garvey, w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten - Victor Thomas, 79, has been missing since last Friday. He lives in Betty Estate at the Poinsetta Road. The missing senior citizen usually walked from his home to the former Sheik supermarket on L.B. scot road to catch a bus to Philips
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – On June 28, Ombudsman Dr. Nilda Arduin invited the media for a press conference. Rented plastic garden chairs in her conference room illustrated the quandary she found herself in, nine months after taking office. Yes
People are wondering why on earth they are unable to file a complaint at the office of the Ombudsman. Today’s front page story reveals what is happening, or better: what is not happening. Ombudsman Arduin finds herself trapped in a situation taken
There is an old and politically highly incorrect joke about Surinamese people who opted to go to the Netherlands after their country became independent in 1975. Unemployment among Surinamese was sky-high at the time and a regular topic of sometimes b
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten - The Saint Martin United Ministerial Foundation (SMUMF) has reacted negatively to Justice Minister Roland Duncan’s proposal to legalize abortion and euthanasia in St. Maarten. In a statement issued yesterday, pastor Wycliffe Smith and
That the United Ministerial Foundation opposes legalized abortion, euthanasia, and prostitution is to be expected. The position is based on ideology, or on faith, if you want, and does not take practical consequences into account. This is not to say
St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on August 31, 2011
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St. Maarten - The 2010 defending Futsal champions, International suffered a humiliating defeat in their first game of the 2011 season when they lost to the 2009 champions and 2010 sub champions Strikers, formerly Sheriff Security by 8-1 over the week
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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Ambitious project designed to steer people towards suitable employment St. Maarten – With close to a million guilders from the state budget, St. Maarten intends to train 250 people through the employability through training-project and make sure
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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St. Maarten - During the month of August, Chippie’s youth program Chipster, held a back to school special for members doing their back to school shopping. Any Chipster member making a purchase of $75 or more at Office 1 Superstore, Van Dorp or Klas
Opinion - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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Omar Nelson’s quest for freedom came to an end yesterday when he was arrested in Retreat Estate – an appropriate name for a location to go in hiding, we thought. It was obvious to everybody except Nelson that his arrest was going to take place s
Monday was a good start of the week for our local police force. Shortly after six, eight detectives, a phone call: Omar Nelson, a 20-year old fugitive criminal, had been located. Within ten minutes the officers were not only out of bed, they were als
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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St. Maarten - The Soualiga Corporate Toastmasters Club entertained and enlightened its members in a masquerade setting with the theme Behind this Mask during its last meeting. Guests included the newly formed Evolution Toastmasters Club of French S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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Police investigate leak about operation St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – Police arrested Omar Nelson, aka Chucky, yesterday morning. The 20-year-old Nelson had been on the run after he escaped from prison on March 19 for 162 days. In his absence,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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St. Maarten, Maho – Police is yet to establish the identity of the man who drowned on Sunday near the Sunset Beach Bar in Maho. Police spokesman Inspector Ricardo Henson said yesterday that the clothing of the man had been found on the beach but th
Opinion - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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Many readers are upset about the traffic situation in Cole Bay and they will remain upset for quite some time, as least for as long as the culvert that is being constructed under the welfare road is not finished yet. And that is scheduled to be the c
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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St. Maarten - The Philipsburg Jubilee Library’s annual book start campaign Read to Me targets babies and toddlers. This year’s theme is Sharing is Caring. The Library organizes the campaign in close collaboration with Ennia, Sifma, and the White
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 30, 2011
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St. Maarten – Oduber Agencies announced in a press release issued yesterday that flu vaccine is now available at local pharmacies. “Every year during the winter season a high percentage of the population of countries that have winters are infe
The high season has started early for traffic coming from the Simpson Bay area towards Philipsburg. Well, not really, but motorists will have to get used to long delays due to the work that is currently being done on the union Road. An economist wou
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2011
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Milo was born one hundred year ago yesterday St. Maarten – The Emilio Wilson Cultural and Historical Park was crammed with cars yesterday afternoon, but most visitors did not come to honor the century anniversary of Milo’s birth date; they wer
Editorial, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2011
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Emilio Wilson is one of St. Maarten’s cultural icons. There is no disagreement there. Celebrating the century anniversary of Milo’s birth date at the park that carries his name, the suggestion was made to name a street after him. Great idea: par
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2011
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St. Maarten – The Peridot Foundation is working on the replacement of the statue that stood at the roundabout opposite Le Grand Marché in Philipsburg. The statue was decapitated in early May. Peridot Foundation President Gracita Arrindell said th
To be fair to National Alliance MP George Pantophlet, he is not only into hazy half-baked proposals like levying toll at the border. He has also set his sights on the casinos and the lottery business. Bravo! Really, it is about time that the govern
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 29, 2011
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LIMA - The Peruvian Public Prosecutors’ Office told Dutch news agency ANP it will seek a 30-year jail sentence against Joran van der Sloot, a key player in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, and a suspect in the killi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2011
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No foul play, investigators conclude MAHO/St. Maarten – Yesterday morning around ten o’clock the body of an unidentified man was found floating towards the Maho Reef area in the water near the Sunset Beach Bar in Maho. Police patrols, the Coa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2011
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Circulation plan will not work St. Maarten – The circulation plan the government devised to improve traffic flow to and from Simpson Bay will not work and will cause motorists hours of delay until the work on the Welfare Road is finished. Today
National Alliance parliamentarian George Pantophlet has suggested levying toll at the border “to generate revenue for the governments of St. Maarten and Saint Martin. Mind you, this is a suggestion, aired in the media, not a formal proposal brough
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2011
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St. Maarten – Central Bank President dr. Emsley Tromp met with Paul Rosenmöller and Cees Maas, the two-man committee charged with examining options to improve integrity in Curacao’s government owned companies. Generally however, the committee is
