St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
Increase in swindling due to Brooks Tower Accord St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – Fraud with healthcare insurance is costing the St. Maarten government millions of guilders every year, the Ipol-report Criminaliteitsbeeldanalyse Sint Maarten abou
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
“If they fail, we will too” St. Maarten – “We must co-develop the region, because if they fail, we will too.” That is the broad message that Chief Executive Officer of the St. Maarten Harbour Group of Companies Mark Mingo delivered on Th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
St. Maarten – A group of former employees of what is now Simpson Bay Resort and Marina and the Villas at Simpson Bay Resort and Marina held a peaceful stand about at the Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort on Thursday. They went there hoping to raise aw
It all looked chipper when parties signed the so-called Slotakkoord on November 2, 2006. For clarity’s sake: this document carries the signature of our current Prime Minister on behalf of St. Maarten. With autonomy, our island would get a good fina
Belgian politicians took a remarkable decision: they lowered their own salaries by 5 percent. That did not go unnoticed in the Netherlands where the Socialist Party jumped on the bandwagon. The party will submit a proposal to parliament next week to
The government is researching options for medical tourism, but we now learn from the Ipol-report that this industry is already flourishing on our island. Unfortunately, this is what our decision makers have in mind, because the tourism the Ipol repor
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
St. Maarten – Parliamentarians from Aruba, Curacao, St. Maarten and the Netherlands have agreed they all support the Kingdom Charter and its tenets, that they can agree to disagree about the Consensus Kingdom Laws, that each of them will press thei
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
“We want to do this ourselves.” St. Maarten – Parliamentary delegations from Aruba, St. Maarten and the Netherlands at the Inter-parliamentary consultation on the Kingdom agreed on Wednesday to install a committee on Youth and Youngsters tha
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
St. Maarten – Friendly bickering between the delegation of Curacao and Freedom Party MP Eric Lucassen was the rather lame highlight in the afternoon-session of the inter-parliamentary Kingdom consultation yesterday at the Great Bay Beach Hotel. The
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 13, 2012
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams announced on Wednesday that the Government of St. Maarten has decided to establish a permanent commission to combat money laundering and terrorism financing. The members of the committee will be dr
