We welcome the seizures of counterfeit items that has taken place on Wednesday and Thursday. At the same time we urge authorities to use this opportunity to increase controls so that these items don’t even make it to the shelves in the various stor
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
GREAT BAY – The Court in First Instance sentenced a sobbing 21-year-old girl from Guyana, Candacy Amanda Delph, to 15 months imprisonment for an attempt to smuggle a bit more than two kilos of cocaine via a complicated route from Suriname to Africa
Opinion, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
Dear Editor, There are four ways to react to injustice: 1 you cry for the victims 2 you analyze the injustice and give a solution 3 you start ranting and raving and insulting the people who caused the injustice 4 you ridicule the ones wh
A Dutch pediatrician wrote a book about alcohol and kids, and he came to a conclusion that we find rather doubtful, or at least debatable. The story came out after a newspaper in the Netherlands reported that a ten-year-old boy had been hospitaliz
Journalists are a cynical bunch. We should know. J So there is a lot of stuff going on in editorial offices that never sees the light of day; it never hits the front page, or even page 29, it never airs on radio or TV. But accidents happen. Ask Ro
Is Curtley R. insane? Is he playing a game? That question came up yesterday in court when the man’s attorney pleaded his case in court. Curtley is not your everyday criminal. He is involved in three murders, a gang rape, and several armed robberies
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
“Scientifically, I could say that my client is insane” St. Maarten – The attorneys for Regatta-murder suspects Curtley Allison R. and Sherwan R. pleaded with the court yesterday morning to leave their clients some perspective and refrain fro
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
St. Maarten - Six stores have now been raided in two days as part of an ongoing effort to rid St. Maarten of counterfeit items. Two stores on Front Street were raided on Wednesday, another four on Back Street were raided Thursday and the action could
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
NFI-scientist Robert Bink St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – One man followed the Regatta-murders trial on Wednesday and Thursday with a special interest in mind: forensic scientist Robert Bink. He was deeply involved in analyzing the dozens o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
GREAT BAY – Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Rhoda Arrindell will give a special presentation on her thesis - Language, Culture and identity in St Martin – at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library on November 28 at 7:00 pm sharp. The
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
GREAT BAY – The permanent committee of parliament for Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunications (TEATT) will meet the St. Maarten Real Estate Association on November 25. The two agenda points are the introduction of the St. Maarte
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) invites leaders from all schools to a meeting on Tuesday, November 29th 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Government Administration Building to discuss their participation in carnival
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
GREAT BAY – The Board of Directors of the International Ombudsman Institution (I.O.I.) has unanimously approved the Ombudsman Institution of St. Maarten’s application for membership. The vote was done at a meeting in Zambia and follows talks betw
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
GREAT BAY – The principals of Indigo Bay treated 24 children and the staff of the I Can Foundation to Thanksgiving Day lunch on Thursday. The idea came from the employees on the project after the project manager Marc van de Bilt asked them for idea
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
St. Maarten - Nagico Holdings Ltd. has acquired British American Insurance Company N.V. including its subsidiary British American Insurance Company (Aruba) N.V. and branch operations on Bonaire and St. Maarten. The transaction was completed on Novemb
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
St. Maarten – A plenary public session of Parliament on the Corporate Governance Council (CGC) begins at 10:00 a.m. today in the General Assembly Chamber of the House of Parliament. The meeting was requested by the National Alliance faction in a le
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
St. Maarten – A.R.P.B. was the first person to be arrested in the police’s end of year operation - “December Offensive 2011” – which began on Thursday. The St. Maartener was arrested for stealing a Blackberry from P.J.A. on Front Street. He
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has delivered a change to the law regulating the Voluntary Korps to parliament and announced that she will be submitting a note of amendment that will amongst other things give the law a St. Maarten
