French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
MARIGOT, St. Martin – Daniel Gibbs, who leads Team Daniel Gibbs, believes a high turnout in this Saturday’s first round of the parliamentary elections will send a clear message to national institutions in Paris that the island wants more attentio
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
St. Maarten / By Donellis Browne – Parliament’s recent unanimous approval of the national ordinance making July 1 – Emancipation Day – an official holiday means government must find an additional 100, 000 guilders to pay police, prison office
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
Replacement licenses to cost 300 guilders St. Maarten / By Donellis Browne – The Government of St. Maarten proposes to raise the price of a replacement driver’s license to 300 guilders in order to make it less attractive for people to lose th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
President of the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) Michel Paige embraces Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications Romeo Pantophlet (seated) during a family photo that includes FCCA cruise line represe
Don’t lose your driver’s license. That is the message the understandable government wants to send to people with its proposal for higher fees for getting a driver’s license that is lost. While the proposal seems on the up and up, we’re a bi
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
MARIGOT – St. Martin will have its first Miss Mature Pageant in 2013. The event is one of five pageants that the Carnival committee wants to host. All participants must be 28 or older to participate. The Dutch side of St. Maarten was the first to i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
Film student Laura Bijnsdorp (center) accepts cheque from NAGICO’s Executive Marketing Manager; Paul Dijkhoffz (left) and Marketing Assistant Lisa Brown (right).St. Maarten - Nagico Insurances donated $2,319.25 to local film student Laura Bijns
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Economic Affairs and Tourism Minister Romeo Pantophlet is this morning at an investment breakfast in New York City, organized by digital media company Hard Beat Communications and the Caribbean Tourism Organization CTO. He finds himse
The government presents the approval of another public holiday as a budget neutral matter in the explanatory note to the Emancipation Day ordinance, but the truth is nearly a quarter of businesses that were asked say they anticipate they’ll make le
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
Papa Umpho (second left), a brave Anansi the spider (left), and Little Miss St. Martin 2011 Kiara Meyers (fifth left), pose with a few of the youngsters in the “Children’s Room” at the 10th anniversary edition of the St. Martin Book Fai
Something smells not pretty: the Taxand deal. Former Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto was caught with his pants down on Monday when his successor Roland Tuitt revealed what he had found out. At his last press conference, Shigemoto gave the impression
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
Staffers of Travel Planners pose with Ennia’s local manager Myrtille Brookson during the presentation of the final documents for their pension plan.St. Maarten - The staff of Travel Planners are now covered by a retirement plan with Ennia that
French St. Martin News, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
St. Maarten Academy high school students are like a youthful crown above the heads of their elders at the symposium of the 10th annual St. Martin Book Fair (L-R, seated): author Fabian Badejo, HNP president Jacqueline Sample, noted Caribbean sch
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 6, 2012
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten welcomed its one millionth cruise passenger on Tuesday. This is the earliest that the country has welcomed the individual in the 11 consecutive years the feat has happened. According to a release 994, 280 cruise passengers h
A crime against a tourist is a crime against us all. That sentiment lives strongly, and justly, in St. Maarten where crimes against tourists await a potentially 25 percent higher punishment. It also lives strongly in Curacao, where the government fin
