St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2011
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and representatives of the Voluntary Corps will meet Members of Parliament at 2:00 p.m. today to brief them on an amendment to the National Ordinance Armed Corps. The changes to the ordinance will
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2011
Forum assesses school rules GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Youth Parliament’s first forum on youth issues will focus on ‘Schools Code of Conduct’. The forum will take the form of a panel discussion and comes after the youth MPs conducted an in-
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 24, 2011
St. Maarten – Public Prosecutor Hans Mos confirmed the arrest of a civil servant from the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning, Environment and Infrastructure on Wednesday. The man, who Mos refused to name, is being held on a corruption charge an
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
WILLEMSTAD – The Finance Ministers of Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten have agreed to drop Aruba’s exemption from the foreign exchange levy on January 1, 2012. Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles agreed to the exemption in 1986 when Aruba became an
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
This pistol was dropped and left behind by one of two robbers who stormed Miki Bar and Restaurant on Monday night.St. Maarten – Police are searching for two men who stormed Miki Bar and Restaurant on the L.B. Scot Road on Monday night and stole rou
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
St. Maarten – Preparations are well underway for St. Maarten’s staging of Rent – a Pulitzer and Tony Award winning stage production conceptualized and produced by Jonathon Larson that tells the story of Bohemians in the East Village of New York
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
Immediately following the emergency exercise the evacuation team met in the PJIA training room to evaluate the Emergency Evacuation Drill. (PJIA photo)St. Maarten – Tuesday’s first emergency evacuation drill at the Princess Juliana International
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
St. Maarten – Local Model Yulanda Gentle is heading to the ‘Big Apple’ – New York City - next week after the Tallahassee-St. Maarten Foundation Executive Director Arthur Lugisse received an official invitation for her to visit, mingle and par
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
Open for business again today COLE BAY, St. Maarten – A fire erupted in the kitchen of the Burger King in Cole Bay early yesterday morning. When the staff ignited the fryer the oil in the appliance caught fire. The fire brigade put out the flame
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
St. Maarten - Staffers of the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning, Environment and Infrastructure and the Ministry of Tourism, Economy, Transportation and Telecommunications have taken p
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
St. Maarten – Parliament will establish a government expenditures committee in January, chairlady Gracita Arrindell said yesterday afternoon at the end of a central committee meeting with the General Audit Chamber. Chairman Roland Tuitt gave a pr
The Dutch Parliament has found another drug that needs to be prohibited: qat. It is popular among Somalis and other denizens from the Middle East, but the Christian democratic CDA holds that chewing qat results in high numbers of school dropout and i
Nobody will notice when parents name their newborn Robert, because that could as easily be an expression of affection for, say, Redford or Wagner as for Mugabe. And who cares anyway? But in New Jersey a couple went too far when it names its little b
The General Audit Chamber will have its hands full with its own government, not only while it is building up its own organization, but also – and maybe we ought to say especially – when the Chamber is ready to execute all of its tasks. The Audit
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on November 23, 2011
St. Maarten – S.G. jumped from his moving car on Tuesday morning after the vehicle’s brakes failed while he was driving away from Monte Vista Road on the Point Blanche hillside. Failing to jump would have cost the man his life and he escaped this
Occupational Health and Safety seem to have taken on a new prominence and in one day we run a story about staffers here from three key ministries learning about the subject and another about people forced from their jobs because of issues in the work
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten’s Addison “Shadow Man” Richardson is the first artist that organizers of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta have announced will be performing at their 32nd annual event from March 1 to March 4, 2012. Shadowman is just on
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
MARIGOT, St. Martin — The removal from office of the Préfet Délégué Jacques Simonet after just 18 months on St. Martin has caused some concern to opposition leader in the Territorial Council Alain Richardson. According to Richardson, the French
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten - The Nature Foundation is recommending that people not eat or otherwise consume lionfish as it contains ciguatoxin which causes Ciguatera poisoning. Ciguatoxins are produced by microscopic plants that live on seaweed and other surfaces w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – The New Era Foundation donated six standing fans to the St. Maarten Home on Monday. The presentation was made by the foundation’s public relations officer Jeffrey Richardson. Richardson was first approached the need for the fans o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
MARIGOT, St. Martin - Leader of the Opposition in the Territorial Council Alain Richardson believes that a decision must be made next year about what happens to the dead as the current cemeteries are almost full. In his view the problem has arisen be
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – The Central committee of parliament met with two real estate associations yesterday morning to discuss changes to the civil code that affect, among others, procedures for selling property. The St. Maarten Real Estate Association and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – The Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) honored three members of its staff as Employees of the Month, Friday afternoon in a ceremony attended by the spouses, friends, family and colleagues of the honorees. The three honorees
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – Insel Air has received IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification and become a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (Alta). Attaining the certification is the reason the airline was able to join
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – The Student Support Services division of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports & Youth Affairs will be holding a workshop for parents entitled Parenting Solutions two evenings next week. The first evening is at the University of
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – Radio Soualiaga 99.9 Choice F.M. will be off the air until at least the weekend as they conduct “major maintenance” at their transmitter site and move their studio to a new home in Porto del Sol Simpson Bay. The station’s Managi
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
MARIGOT, St. Martin – President of Parliament drs Gracita Arrindell was the guest on last Sunday’s “Woman 2 Woman, Phenomenal Women” radio show. The program, which airs from 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., on SOS Radio 95.9 f.m. is for women, by wo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – The Windward Islands Civil Servants Union/Public Sector Union, WICSU/PSU hosts an Occupational Safety and Health workshop on November 24 and November 25 at Carl and Son’s Unique Inn & Conference Facilities. The training will be give
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten - The Court in First Instance is bracing for a long session when the trial against two men who stand accused of the three Regatta-murders and a gang rape tomorrow morning. Judge mr. M. Keppels has cleared the court’s agenda from nine o�
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – Today’s Central Committee hearing on the National Ordinance on Consumer Protection, has been postponed until further notice. The St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce & Industry was supposed to give input with respect to the National Ordi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 22, 2011
St. Maarten – The Princess Juliana International Airport Operating Company NV (PJIAE) will be carrying an evacuation exercise between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. today in order to comply with its Fire Safety and Evacuation Plan. It will be the first t
Last Saturday I ran into Lydia Henderson when I went with my wife for my weekly shopping to Le Grand Marché. Lydia was selling her book with the promising title From Heterosexual to Bisexual to Lesbian to God. Like Mike Ferrier, I always want to hel
Many people are going bonkers about artificial sweeteners. Aspartame is one of these products. Some people swear by artificial sweeteners,. Others associate them with health problems. A professor in Wageningen, Kees de Graaf, says that the aspartame
One of our readers who is in the government’s service asked us some time ago about an article we had published about an organization that offered legal training. We were a bit sloppy to start with, but in the end we got around to looking up the inf
Open Letter to Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Theodore Heyliger Dear Editor, Obviously, it is no secret that most of the population has more respect for you than for our smile-to-look-good prime minister. By now most people have learned how difficu
