St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – The Collective Prevention Service (CPS), a public health agency of the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour has warned people who may have been exposed to tuberculosis or who have it to strictly follow their medica
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Freedom Party spokesman for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom Eric Lucassen and Curacao’s Pueblo Soberano leader Helmin Wiels will be among the parliamentarians that visit St. Maarten for the inter-parliamentary Kingdom Conference
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – The Parliament’s secretariat was strengthened with two new employees who started at the beginning of this month: acting Secretary General Nancy Joubert and second acting SG Van Dyke Bell. Joubert comes from the government’s depart
Last year, the inter-parliamentary consultation’s presidium decided in a meeting that was held in The Hague in June, that the deliberations would be “public in principle.” This year, the consultation is held for the first time in St. Maarten,
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
The Friendly Island is still a safe place for journalists to work. Sure we have been threatened a couple of times – once even by a member of the current cabinet – but no shots have been fired and the threats did not go further than a war or words
Wouldn’t it be nice to be a researcher? An idea pops into your head and wham, before you know it you are busy interviewing 806 American women aged between 40 and 80 about their sex life. We’d rather go surfing or something like that, but okay, re
A false report maliciously uttered and tending to injure the reputation of a person. That’s how the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines slander. Last month this newspaper was involved in a court case with an attorney who thought we had slandered hi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
Uncontrolled algae growth causes foul stench St. Maarten – Vice President of the St. Maarten Pride Foundation Reuben Thompson says that the “thick green slimy water” snaking its way to the Fresh Pond from the Great Salt Pond is nature fina
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Collective Prevention Services (CPS), executing agency of the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, has strongly recommended parents and guardians start preparing healthy snacks for their children this year. Parents
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
MARIGOT - The French Saint-Martin Tourism Office hosts a Haitian art exhibit on its premises beginning January 12. The exhibit, which opens with a private viewing between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., will continue until mid-February and is in commemora
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
GREAT BAY - The 7th Annual National Day of Prayer will be held this Sunday, January 8, 2012 in front of the Government Administration Building under the theme, “Thank you Lord for watching over us as we go forward.” The ecumenical service will b
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) announced on Thursday that its popular Youth Extravaganza will take on a new format for Carnival 2012. Entitled “Youth Extravaganza 2012: Reloaded” the talent showcasing event w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Members of the Royal Anguilla Police Force will visit St. Maarten today to make the visual confirmation on whether three men being held by the Police Force of St. Maarten for armed robbery are suspects they are seeking. The Anguillans
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
St. Maarten - Crime fighting, improved prison facilities and policy reforms are Minister of Justice Roland Duncan’s stated priorities for the year 2012. He’s chosen those items over “solving petty conflicts among civil servants, especially th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
New resolution still unfinished St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan has announced he wants to move the issuance of driver’s licenses to the Ministry of Justice because he’s unhappy with the “bad service” people are getting fro
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Harbour Group of Companies has revealed that it welcomed a record 1,656,159 cruise passengers spread over 596 ship calls in 2011. This is 344,200 more cruise passengers than the just over 1.5 million passengers that arri
