St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
WILLEMSTAD – The Antilliaans Dagblad reported last week that millions of dollars have disappeared at the heavily subsidized Dutch Antilles Express airline DAE. The newspaper obtained documents that suggest mismanagement and theft at the company.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
Central Bank projects further contraction this year GREAT BAY – St. Maarten’s economy contracted by 1.5 percent last year, the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten reported last Friday in a press release about last year’s economic develop
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten – The New Year did not begin well for several tourists who were walking on the Board walk at five o’clock in the morning of January 1, though their mishap ended with the arrest of five armed robbers and the recovery of stolen goods.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
Vice PM Theo Heyliger’s New Year’s message St. Maarten – Vice Prime Minister Theo Heyliger described 2011 as a difficult year in his New Year’s message yesterday. He also promised to look at “ways and means to lessen the burden” for ci
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten – An accident that took place shortly after midnight from Friday to Saturday took the life of 21-year old Jasias Hodge. The young man drove with his scooter onto Bush Road where he was hit by an oncoming car. It is unclear whether Hodge
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
Marigot, St. Martin - The calendar for the annual French St. Martin Carnival is set with parades and jump-ups on four Sundays in January and twelve event-days in February that end on the twenty-second with the Ash Wednesday Parade. The first parad
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten –Around eight o’clock last Friday evening four armed men robbed the Texaco Start Mart on Bush Road of an undisclosed amount of money. The robbers ignored the clients in the store and threatened the cashiers with a gun. She gave the ro
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten – The Instruction Center for the Wise organizes a free goal setting workshop at the St. Peters Community Center this coming Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. For information contact Patricia Varlack at 524-5405
The human body is unique in many ways, and one would think that the engineer of this blood and flesh-machinery would have put some thought into it. Well maybe he (or she, who knows?) did, but an Australian doctor discovered a small oversight. His con
When we published a Central Bank report back in April of last year that predicted flat or negative economic growth for 2011, Vice Prime Minister Theo Heyliger said that he was not convinced the numbers in the report were correct. Earlier in the year
The Dutch guilder is dead as a doornail, but the paper money keeps its value for another twenty years, until January 1, 2032. A year ago, the Dutch still had for close to a billion in guilders in their possession. In October of last year, the number
Many people are familiar with the slight panic attack that usually follows the question: where are my car keys? Years ago there was a key ring on the market with a gadget that reacted when its owner whistled: it produced a sound et voilà; key and ow
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten – Denicio Richardson confirmed through a statement issued by his attorney mr. Wim van Sambeek yesterday that he has been suspended as director of PSS, the postal services of St. Maarten. “My client emphasizes that he holds the opin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten – The Common Court of Justice handed down several verdicts on 2011’s last day of business. Cab driver Erol Montgomery Bolan, 65, saw his conviction to 4 years and 10 months for human smuggling and membership of a criminal organization
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten – Leopold James’ St. Maarten Nation Building foundation /L’Esprit de Concordia has named SOS Radio host Jacques “Billy D” Hamlet its person of the year. On the shortlist with five names, Hamlet is followed by HIV/Aids program ma
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 3, 2012
St. Maarten – The Central Bank published an extensive report about the economic developments in the year that is just behind us, and about the perspective for 2012. This article contains the report’s integral text. According to the latest esti
