St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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St. Maarten – Marlon Brooks, the truck driver who was involved in the traffic accident at the Kruythoff roundabout on Monday whereby his truck rolled over says that the brakes of his truck were failing when he came down the Harold Jack Hill. In the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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GREAT BAY- The press office of the Prime Minister considered a Carnival picture Today published last Friday “tasteless and graphic.” Photographer Milton Pieters who made the disputed image went on the road to collect some opinions about the contr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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St. Maarten – Rene “Koto” Wilson is still at war with Maurice Lake and his legal representative, attorney Roeland Zwanikken. In a letter dated April 20, Wilson demands that both Lake and his attorney “refrain from slandering the good name, re
We rather marveled at the reaction by truck driver Marlon Brooks to Monday’s traffic accident whereby his 35-ton trailer truck rolled over at the Kruythoff roundabout in Cole Bay. It is not often that someone is able to provide such an insight i
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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Devon Chet Otto is definitely not a nice man. we all know that, since he is serving a 30-year prison sentence for murdering census office employee Stanley Gumbs in 2008. To add insult to injury, Otto told fellow-inmates once that he shot the wrong ma
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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St. Maarten – The quality of patient files and the technical maintenance of medical equipment at general practitioners in St. Maarten is very poor and professional communication about the individual patient and the organization of care is a major p
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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St. Maarten (DCOMM) – Last Friday, the board of the Soualiga Foundation left the Evertshuis in Bodegraven elated at the rave results of its first-ever student forum. The event was visited by Sint Maarten students, recent graduates and young profess
The survey among general practitioners tells us exactly where we are today, Public Health Minister Cornelius de Weever said yesterday. It was a bland reaction to a report that contains some alarming news. While our general practitioners – the fi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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SAN JUAN - Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association President (CHTA) Josef Forstmayr opened the 16th Annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC) in Puerto Rico with a call for Caribbean governments to rethink tax policies with
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 26, 2012
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“Regrettable nonsense and wild allegations” St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan has some issues with an article that appeared in the Daily Herald last Saturday under the headline Worries about St. Maarten as drug smuggling haven. In
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot- Williams made it abundantly clear in an initial reaction to a letter received from Curacao’s Prime Minister Schotte on April 19 indicating his government’s wish to annul the St. Maarten harbor bond issue
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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GREAT BAY – To the dismay of Justice Minister Roland Duncan, convicted killer Devon Otto will be tried in St. Maarten in June for a shooting that took place in the prison in Willemstad on September 13 of last year. Otto is serving a 30-year sentenc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
Comments Off on Prosecutor’s office loses appeal against release of armed robber
St. Maarten– The public prosecutor’s office lost the appeal against the release of Leon G., a suspect in sixteen armed robberies and firearm possession. The suspect was handed over to the immigration department and deported to his native St. Kitt
The law is of course exactly that: the law. Judges apply the law and they don’t concern themselves with political or practical issues, like for instance a chronic lack of prison cells. When the state puts suspects behind bars, these suspects have r
The press service of Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams issued a statement yesterday in which she “expressed her displeasure regarding tasteless and graphic images which were shown of a young lady taken during the opening jump up on Thursday Apri
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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THE HAGUE (AP) -- Caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte appealed to a polarized Dutch Parliament on Tuesday to help him make painful budget cuts rather than let the country drift in political limbo until new elections. Speaking publicly for the firs
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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GREAT BAY – Cleon A. Bourne stabbed Burger King manager Cheryl V. Withrite on Sunday morning before killing himself, the prosecutor’s office confirmed in a press release issued yesterday. “The thorough investigation in this case, both foren
Opinion - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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What does the recently passed American Jobs Act, crowdfunding and St. Maarten have to do with each other? And how can they improve the investment climate and generate jobs on St. Maarten? Before I answer those questions, let me first explain what the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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St. Maarten — A high-level delegation representing the Princess Juliana International Airport attended the Passenger Terminal Expo in Vienna from April 18-20. The delegation, headed by Deputy Prime Minister and shareholder representative Theo H
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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Residents concerned about sewerage and runoff water MIDDLE REGION – Monday evening’s town hall meeting at the Marie Laurence School in Middle Region about the sewerage problems drew several comments and concerns from the residents. They asked
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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St. Maarten – The crisis in the prison system Today reported about yesterday is a management problem, Justice Minister Roland Duncan told this newspaper yesterday. The Minister reacted to our question whether he is ready to pick up the phone and ca
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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St. Maarten – Last Friday Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams held a meeting with Prime Minister Denzil Douglas of St. Kitts and Nevis at the airport. Douglas spent the night on St. Maarten on his way his way to Washington for an International Mon
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
St. Maarten - “I just opened my eyes, I was like really? I knew I did well and I kept saying I know I can win this but when they actually announced my name, I just said God thank you.” That was the initial reaction of English school teacher, Sh
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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St. Maarten - Princess Juliana International Airport continues its campaign to keep the island clean. In its most recent initiative the airport, the Blue Flag Business for the month of April, placed 46 garbage bins with the Blue Flag logo in the Fest
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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GREAT BAY – St. Maarten will sign an agreement with the United Nations Development Program UNDP in the next couple of days for the development of a National Development Plan for St. Maarten, Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams announced last Frida
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
Comments Off on PM to students in Holland: “We need people in many areas”
St. Maarten – Last Friday Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams gave the opening address at the first Soualiga Foundation Student Forum which at the Evertshuis in Bodegraven. The PM delivered her speech via a video-link. The forum’s main goal w
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on April 25, 2012
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St. Maarten – Bavpol junior officer E.V. was detained on Monday evening around six o’clock as a suspect in an ongoing criminal investigation. The unspecified crime was committed in 2009, before he enrolled in the police force. Detectives used
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 24, 2012
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St. Maarten – Trouble in the timeshare industry is not only a topic that appears in the local media. Jeff Berger published a weekly internet newsletter St. Maarten and Saint Martin Weekly News. The newsletter offers a tantalizing view on how partie
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 24, 2012
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“The only effective sanction is immediate release,” judge rules Criminal suspects free due to crisis in prison system GREAT BAY – The crisis in St. Maarten’s prison system came further under pressure when the Judge of Instruction ordere
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 24, 2012
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St. Maarten – A trailer truck transporting a container for Tropical Shipping rolled over at the Kruythoff roundabout in Cole Bay yesterday around one o’clock. Police Inspector Ricardo Henson said that the driver apparently did not shift down soon
Timeshare owners are getting more and more involved with the drive to regulate the industry and to protect their interests. As the article from Jeff Berger’s internet newsletter shows, these often wealthy vacationers feel left out in the cold: the
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 24, 2012
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The Safe Haven Foundation expresses its sincere sympathy to the families and friends of the late Mrs. Cheryl Withrite and Mister Cleon Bourne who lost their lives in such a horrific tragedy. This tragic event brings up so much sadness and frustrat
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 24, 2012
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Hurray: St. Maarten will host a couple of Parlatino meetings in November. One would think that this is good news, and maybe it is. Travel hungry parliamentarians from other countries will come to the Friendly Country for a couple of days and they hav
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 24, 2012
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Justice Minister Roland Duncan has a situation on his hands. It’s not new of course, the fact that St. Maarten is struggling with too many criminals and not enough cells to put them away, but until now the judicial system somehow managed to cope by
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on April 24, 2012
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St. Maarten - In the run up to Thursday’s St.Martin Believers’ Connection Convention, committee public relations officer Angie Pantophlet has issued a clarion call for the church to actively confront the issue of vulgarity that youths portray dur
