St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan announced on Sunday that a 15 bed Youth Detention Center will be constructed in Cay Hill on the same property as “The Box”. The announcement was made on For the Record with Eddie Williams on Radio So
Editorial - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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The proof of the need for repairs on the Pointe Blanche prison became blaringly obvious on Sunday when Anthony Ray Spencer became the second prisoner for the year to escape from the prison be climbing through a hole in the roof in the kitchen. While
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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PARIS – Languages and their impact on learning and the implementation of compulsory education were core elements of St. Maarten’s national statement to the 36th General Conference of the United Nations Education Science and Culture Organization (
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – Management of the Pointe Blanche Prison and Justice Minister Roland Duncan both announced Sunday that Anthony Ray Spencer, who was sentenced to 20 year imprisonment for on October 12, had escaped from the Pointe Blanche prison. Spen
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labour Cornelius De Weever will return to parliament at 2:00 pm on Wednesday to respond to questions that were asked by Members of Parliament on the labour situation. The questions wer
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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St. Maarten - The Tallahassee-St. Maarten Foundation Inc. under the directorship of Arthur Lugisse is very pleased with Yulanda Gentle’s performance at U.S. Virgin Islands Fashion Week. She represented the island there after winning Direct Music T
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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St Martin Trails Group Picture MARIGOT– St. Martin Trails hosts its first Annual Unity Walk-a-ton on November 13 under the theme United for our Environment. The club hikes trails on both sides of the island every Sunday morning and feels that ther
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Wiliams toured the Post Office and spoke with employees last week to get an update since the signing of the Transfer, Support and Assistance Agreement on Saturday, October 15, 2011, guaranteeing postal serv
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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“These institutions might even require some re-engineering.” St. Maarten – President of Parliament drs Gracita Arrindell has called for closer functional cooperation between Aruba and Sint Maarten. She has also said that St. Maarten should l
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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St. Maarten – Finance Minister has welcomed an announcement by Dutch Secretary of State for Finance Frans Weekers that he has assigned his technical advisor Robert Cornax, to research the situation with the Dutch Ministry of Interior Affairs and Ki
Fashion designer Mauricio Gucci’s widow Patrizia has spent the past fourteen years in prison. In 1998 she was sentenced to 29 years of imprisonment because she had been so unkind to murder her husband. A court ruled recently that mama Gucci is rea
Opinion - Posted by admin on October 31, 2011
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Ah, finally there is a unique solution for our crowded roads. Stop the import of new cars and invite American Joe LoCicero for a seminar. The American, who in Maine, bought a 1990 model Honda Accord in 1996. The car had just 74,000 miles on the clock
There was this rather obvious ad on the government information page in the local newspapers addressing children who travel on school buses. Amidst all the well-intentioned warnings to these kids to behave themselves (or else), there was a line that a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – Director of Bureau Telecommunications and Post St. Maarten Peggy Ann Brandon confirmed recently that the regulator is giving telephone companies indirect relief on the fees they pay. The relief stems from the fact that the companies t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – Police found a 9-milimeter caliber Luger handgun in Cay Hill recently. The discovery was made by the Zero Tolerance because of a tip the police received. The gun was under a black bag with food in it. The weapon was loaded with 9
Every democracy gives its citizens an opportunity every so often to elect a group of people from among them to lead the nation. In our dualistic system the direct representation is provided by Parliament and Ministers daily seek out the best policies
Opinion - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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Dear Editor, Lots of people continue to ask me my position on the St. Maarten song. Some wonder when I am going to break my silence on the issue. There is a group with a website to cast an opinion about the St. Maarten song. Well my people what I
Parliamentarian George Pantophlet has brought up an old question to which everybody knows the answer. At least, everybody could know the answer, but apparently, MP Pantophlet does not, or he has forgotten all about it. In Tuesday’s central committe
We’ve been wondering for quite some time now, without getting around to putting some real energy into it, what is going on with the tent-church in Dutch Quarter. The blue and white striped House of God appeared sometime during the summer, complete
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – The Philipsburg Jubliee Library launched its revamped website - http://www.stmaartenlibrary.org/ - and was presented with DVDs with the first five years of Profiles of the Windward Islands on Thursday afternoon. The presentation of th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – Due to a number of recent waterborne accidents, Government has introduced additional temporary safety measures according to the Water Sports Ordinance, AB 1978 nr. 13. The Ordinance applies to all water sport activities, in the broade
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport & Telecommunications Franklin Meyers, says it is welcome news that US travellers are expected to increase vacation spending in 2011/2012. The news comes from the latest American Express
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – Individuals or companies desirous of exporting wooden pallets from St. Maarten to other countries, must notify the Inspection Department TEZVT-LVV (Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries) that falls under the Ministry of Tourism, Econom
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto met C. Pompier and J. Chiyadi on Thursday. Both are St. Maarten students who will be completing their studies in the Netherlands in 2012 and 2013 respectively. They both plan to return and work in the M
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Telem Group of Companies Rafael Boasman has expressed the board’s pride with the company’s rollout of its 3G+ network. The official launch was done on October 21 at Holland House. The inv
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten - Slowly but surely a picture starts to emerge of the gangsters that are involved in the local cocaine trade. Yesterday morning Andre Fernando D., a 62-year-old pensioner stood trial for his involvement in an attempt to smuggle 10.3 kilos
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 28, 2011
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St. Maarten – The public prosecutor demanded a 6-year prison sentence against 54-year-old St. Maartener Roberto Bernard F. as the supplier of 10.3 kilos of cocaine and the organizer of a transport of these drugs to St. Croix in the US Virgin Island
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
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St. Maarten – The Board and management of the Philipsburg Jubilee Library, which is vested in a private foundation, has asked parliament’s permanent committee on education, culture, youth and sport to assist them with the effort to become the nat
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
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PARIS – Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, Dr. Rhoda Arrindell and her counterpart from Curacao Lionel Jansen have held “very friendly” and “long overdue” talks on common challenges and potential areas of cooperation.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
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St. Maarten – Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto has discussed the budget for 2012 with both Dutch Minister of Kingdom Relations Piet Hein Donner and the Cabinet of St. Maarten’s Minister Plenipotentiary in The Hague. Shigemoto gave Donner a gener
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
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St. Maarten – The Civil Registry will resume the issuing of passports today. They had to stop last week because of unforeseen technical matters with the hardware that supports the operations of the department’s passport system. People who want t
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
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GREAT BAY – Police discovered “a substantial amount of compacted marijuana” when they searched a home on Banjo Drive in Cape Bay at 7:35 p.m. on Tuesday. They did the search because they received information that people were selling drugs at th
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
Comments Off on Permit renewals to be done by appointment only
St. Maarten – The Minister of Justice Roland Duncan and the Minister Public Health, Social Development and Labor Cornelius de Weever have authorized the issuing renewals process for BTA Category 2 permit-holders. This process is meant for persons r
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
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St. Maarten – Police arrested and detained R.M. at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday as a suspect in the murder of the October 14th murder of Marlon Sebelon. Detectives have begun their interrogation and it is unclear whether M. is the only suspect as early r
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 27, 2011
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Supreme Court voids 2010 bribery verdict St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – The Supreme Court voided National Alliance MP Louie Laveist’s 2010 bribery conviction yesterday based on a technicality and sent the case back to the Common Court of Just
