The proposals to reform the tax system, as revealed by outgoing Finance Minister Shigemoto on Wednesday contains good news, bad new and questionable news. The questionable part piqued our interest, because the new tax system seems to be heading for
Just thought your community should know of the dishonest business practices of Leather World International Fronstreet #71. We were in the shop on a cruise stop and bought a leather hat. I gave them my Visa card for the $20 purchase and took my re
Dear Editor, The historical rights of Native Indigenous St. Martiners Worldwide recognized in their homeland as described in the UN declarations concerning Post-Colonial Rights of native People is “Conditio Sine Qua Non”, If there is to be any
Here is something that may actually work: community policing. Understaffing has been the name of the game for a very long time. It also has been the usual excuse for anything that went wrong in our communities. But now we see slowly but surely more p
Psychiatric patients sometimes end up doing things that land them in a court room and subsequently in prison. The image of psychiatric patients as incorrigible criminals has been planted firmly in the human psyche by the Hannibal Lecter movies. In St
Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto bade his farewell to politics with a statement about the country’s financial condition on Wednesday that basically ignored reality. That reality is obviously that there is a hole in the 2012 budget that seems to be
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Garcia: “Community policing is pro-active, not reactive” From left to right Dr. Hector R. Garcia, Justice Minister Roland Duncan and Commissioner Carl John.St. Maarten – “The police are a reactive force. Something happens and we call t
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New tax-system favors residents over non-residents St. Maarten – The revised tax system is scheduled to be completed by January 2013, outgoing Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto said at a press conference on Wednesday. The governing accord signed b
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St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance postponed the trial of two boys who raped two of their sisters repeatedly for two years until September. One of the girls was just three years old. The boys will be sent to Curacao for a psychiatric evaluat
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St. Maarten – Davonan S. will hear on June 6 whether he walks or whether the Court in First Instance has a punishment in mind for him. The 34-year-old defendant was caught with 54.9 kilos of cocaine about his boat by the Coast Guard and the public
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St. Maarten - Amendments to the existing foreign labor policy are expected soon, with significant changes to most likely to be made in the security industry, domestic workers and the removal of an age moratorium for skilled and unskilled foreign labo
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St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Terry Constant to 4 years imprisonment for an armed robbery that took place at the Christina Bar on February 3. Of the sentence, 2 years are suspended, and Judge mr. Monique Keppels imposed 2 year
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St. Maarten – The parliament meets on Monday morning at ten o’clock to discuss the Emancipation Day Ordinance and the new criminal code. Last week the meeting was postponed to allow MPs to attend the funeral of MP Hyacinth Richardson’s mother.
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Tenants Association supports homeownership project From left to right Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor Affairs Cornelius de Weever, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, Dr. Rhoda Arrindell, Minister
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St. Maarten – Without spending a single word on the criticism the board for financial supervision Cft expressed in letters to the government as recent as last week Wednesday, outgoing Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto paraded the healthy state of St.
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St. Maarten – The tax inspectorate has 88 of its 143 full time functions (61 percent) occupied, Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto said at a press conference on Wednesday. The development for the Netherlands Antilles Usona has contributed 5.6 million
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St. Maarten – The government has twenty requests for tax relief under consideration: three for a tax exemption, and seventeen for a tax holiday, Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto said at a press conference on Wednesday. The requests for exemptions ar
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Members of the management council present their annual report to Governor Holiday.St. Maarten – Last Tuesday Governor Drs. Eugene Holiday met with the Management Council of the Common Court of Justice. The members presented the Joint Court of J
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St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams expects that the new government will be ready for a swearing in ceremony on Monday. In a press release issued on Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s office said that the names of candidate-ministers
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Every citizen has the right to proper housing BELVEDERE- Chairman of the supervisory board of the St. Maarten Housing Development Foundation (SMDHF), Elso Kraai has issued a stirring call for politicians and the business community to assist in the
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The plaque made by inmates in honor of the late Eulalie Meyers.St. Maarten - A plaque bearing the picture of the late Mrs. Eulalie Meyers was recently unveiled at the Prison in Point Blanche. Mrs. Meyers who for many years was not only instrumen
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St. Maarten – The String Band Music Foundation, and AVS News presented outgoing Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, Dr. Rhoda Arrindell with the first copy of the “Kais-o-rama 1” DVD, on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at the Mini
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St. Maarten (DCOMM) – Planning a summer vacation, you should use the opportunity to get vaccinated tomorrow at the Youth Health Care annual vaccination open house at the festival village, the department stated in a press release. “If you are tra
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In cooperation with university of St. Martin St. Maarten - University of the Virgin Islands officials are scheduled to hold an information session on St. Maarten next week Wednesday for people interested in following the Masters in Education progr
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Carl Riley (l) and Ivy Lambert present Video X Games foundation president Jeff Oliver with this check.St. Maarten - The Video X Games Foundation announced that internet service provider Caribserve has come on board as the event’s title sponsor, mak
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St. Maarten (DCOMM) –Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, Chairman of the disaster emergency management organization, the Emergency Operations Center, is calling on the community to prepare timely for the Atlantic hurricane season, and to have the
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St. Maarten – Participants in the St. Maarten Annual Regional Trade fair Smart attended a farewell reception at Fort Amsterdam last night. A day earlier, there was a welcome reception at the Radisson Blue Resort, Marina and Spa on the French side.
