St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2011
WILLEMSTAD — Curacao’s Prime Minister has said that dollarization remains a political decision that Curacao and St. Maarten must take even though the International Monetary Fund has advised against it. Saying that the IMF is against dollarization
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2011
Stakeholders in the construction of a primary school in Belvedere turn soil in order to officially break ground on the project, which will provide work experience for 10 students in the Secondary Vocational Education (SBO) Program. Standing left
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
St. Maarten – A proposal from S.E.L. Maduro and Sons Ltd has brought the country’s tourism partners back to the table to look at converting cruise passengers into stay over tourists. Stakeholders who attended the recent meeting are, amongst other
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto has said Dutch State Secretary of Finance Frans Weekers should look at how the Netherlands can reduce the tax burden on the people of St. Eustatius and Saba, without blaming St. Maarten. He also believe
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
St. Maarten – President of Parliament drs Gracita Arrindell has expressed her sympathy to the Pantophlet family on the passing of Member of Parliament (MP) George Pantophlet’s father. “On behalf of the Parliament of St. Maarten, I would like
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
Lead Instructor Marco London (on the right with white T-shirt) with recent graduates of the STCW'95 course. (Photo contributed) St. Maarten - Crew from Eagle Tours, Aquamania, Captain Morgan charters and several other crews from the island and a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
St. Maarten – The offices of Social Services and Labor located on the Pondfill next to Carl & Sons, will reopen today. The departments fall under the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour. The offices won’t be 100 per ce
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
“The risk is less than the net economic benefits” St. Maarten – Regional Tourism Ministers and Commissioners have decided to push advocacy on inter-regional travel to the top of their agenda for the coming 12 months. Their efforts will be ba
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto flew to Curacao on Sunday to meet with officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten (CBCS) and the private s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
Director of the St. Maarten Archaeological Center Dr. Jay Haviser lifts a bag onto a scale so that its contents can be weighed after its contents were itemized. (Milton Pieters photo) St. Maarten / By Milton G Pieters - Fewer volunteers
The Golden Carriage, a nineteenth century vehicle the Queen uses every year for her traditional trip to the Staten-General on the third Tuesday in September, is at the center of a mini-controversy initiated by Socialist Party MP Harry van Bommel and
Dutch psychiatrist Bram Bakker wrote a book entitled Bewegen voor Beginners (literally translated: Exercise for Dummies) that ought to be mandatory reading in St. Maarten for everyone who is suffering from overweight, depression or high cholesterol a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 19, 2011
St. Maarten – President of the Voice of our Children Foundation Charmaine Olivaccee paid tribute to the 13-year-old Tiffany Reid at the foundation’s official launch at the Philipsburg Jubilee on Saturday. The teen will be laid to rest today, 11 d
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
THE NETHERLANDS - Air France-KLM has split a new eight-billion order for 50 new aircraft between Boeing and Airbus. The move is part of a plan to renew the fleet of Europe’s largest airline and the order could rise to 110 of the next-generation air
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
WILLEMSTAD – The Supervisory Board of UTS has given the green light for a partnership with Caribbean Technology Exchange (CTEX). The latter company wants to set up a data center in Curacao and had asked UTS to invest $5 million. The board has now g
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
THE NETHERLANDS – The Dutch government expects to stop providing finances for implementing the Plans of Approach for the Police and Prisons in Curacao and St. Maarten at the end of 2012. They also expect to end all cooperation programs in education
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
WILLEMSTAD/GREAT BAY - The Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten has raised the percentage of it’s the minimum reserve requirement from 7.75 percent to 9.75 percent. The regulation took effect Friday and is aimed at the commercial banks, who mus
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
Trip to catch up with vacationing family cost almost $100,000 St. Maarten – The Canadian Chief of Defense Staff General Walt Natynczyk has spent more than $1 million since 2008 flying on government VIP aircraft as an expensive alternative to re
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
St. Maarten - Bureau Telecommunications and Post St. Maarten donated two HP servers, a Linksys 4 Bay gig network storage system and a large server rack to the IT department of the Milton Peter College in St. Maarten recently. The data storage system
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
St. Maarten – Chief Executive Officer of the St. Maarten Harbor Group of Companies Mark Mingo has expressed support for plans by Justice Minister Roland Duncan to implement stiffer penalties for crimes against tourists. He also wants more regulati
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
THE NETHERLANDS– People who apply for naturalization will soon have to give up their original nationality. The requirement is part of an amendment to the law on Dutch citizenship that was approved by the Kingdom Council of Ministers on Friday. The
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
“Customer at the heart of everything we do” St. Maarten – “We are determined to put the customer at the heart of everything we do. Everyone in the tourism industry should work on this,” British airways CEO Keith Williams said in his keyn
Helmin Wiels finally got his way and now we’ll have to wait and see how damaging this is for Curacao’s economy. The introduction of the so-called 80-20 law obliges companies to hire at least 80 percent locals for their staff. That this law vio
We’ve been thinking a lot lately about the report card the Vromi-ministry has in mind for the contractors that build and maintain our roads. The impression has been created that the contractors are delivering a lousy job and that the government int
What to do with Devon Otto? The man who killed Civil Registry employee Stanley Gumbs in a case of mistaken identity in 2008 and who is currently serving thirty years for the murder, added two more crimes to his record this week by shooting two inmate
St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on September 18, 2011
St. Maarten - A Colin Hamer 11 will take on a Romain Doodnauth 11 beginning today for a spot on the national selection that will participate in the Nagico 2011 One Day tournament. The Nagico sponsored tournament begins in eight days. The two selec
News that the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten has increased the reserve requirement for commercial banks should grab every one’s attention. Economists will no doubt have intellectual debates about what it means for the continued economic re
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
St. Maarten – President of Parliament drs Gracita Arrindell issued a statement Wednesday both celebrating democracy in St. Maarten and calling for strengthening of the democratic institutions. Both statements were part of a statement issued to coin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten’s Shareholder Representative in New Post Netherlands Antilles Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams was shocked on Thursday that the company has signed a transfer protocol with the St. Maarten Communication Workers Union (S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
St. Maarten – Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Rhoda Arrindell has called for organizations planning events for St. Maarten Day to contact the Culture Department so their event can be added to the calendar of events. An organizin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, Curacao’s Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte and Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal are to meet on the sidelines of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting will run fr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
St. Maarten – “Your future is yours to own,” said Connier Thelwell of the St. Martin Book Fair Committee (BFC) to students at the St. Maarten Vocational Training School (SMVTS) on Thursday. Thelwell and author Lasana M. Sekou were at the school
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
St. Maarten – The placement of staffers in the new corporate structure at the Telem Group will not happen before the end of October, when ongoing projects are rounded off. Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and the company’s employees were info
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
St. Maarten – A small but empathetic group of people held a candle light march for Tiffany Reid on Thursday evening. The teen died on September 2, 2011 and her father R.R. remains in custody as the prime suspect in her murder. Thursday’s march
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 17, 2011
Cadastre unable to find evidence that supports request St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar –Francis Hodge has spent countless hours stretching back over more than twenty years, to obtain title to a piece of land in Cul-de-Sac his great-grandmother Ra
