St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
“It was never budgeted for.” St. Maarten – Finance Minister Roland Tuitt confirmed on Wednesday that Taxand has written the government requesting they be paid for services that they rendered to the country. That letter is now being handled b
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten - Close to thirty emergency personnel drawn from the Fire and Ambulance Department, the Police, Red Cross and Windward Islands Emergency Medical Systems (Wiems) foundation responded to a mass casualty scene on the Pondfill on Wednesday. T
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
Brothels like the Sunset Retreat Bar aka Border Bar, which was managed by Ignacio Augustin Priest, are a source of concern for officials that deal with the matter of human trafficking. Priest was sentenced to 54 months in prison on March 21 for t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten – Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Silveria Jacobs has now made a decision on the study financing applications in 2012. Her decision follows a review of the decisions taken by former Minister of Education, Culture, Youth
St. Maarten’s lack of reporting on trafficking in persons may have been understandable in 2010 because the country was newly born and officials here needed to get a clear understanding of their role and the commitments they have to meet. To hear in
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten– David St. Brice was broke on January 3 of last year and the option he chose to solve that problem earned him a 30 month prison sentence and 3 years of probation. Of the sentence, 10 months are suspended. Together with a man identified
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Roland Tuitt met one of the unions representing civil servants and teachers on Tuesday to discuss an alternative for structurally adjusting salaries. The minister wants the unions to think along with the government so
Is there some relief underway? One would think so, given the fact that oil prices reached their lowest point in the past one and a half year yesterday. The cause of the dip seems to be the unexpected increase of the strategic oil reserves in the U
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten – Emilien Pompelio Kruythoff, a 24-year-old who was according to a report by the Rehabilitation Bureau practically born addicted to drugs, was sentenced to a largely conditional prison sentence yesterday on the condition that he follows
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – Acting Chairman of the General Audit Chamber Ronald Halman along with Secretary General Joane Dovale-Meit presented their 40-page 2011 Annual Report to President of Parliament drs. Gracita Arrindell on Wednesday. The presentation was do
What is it with youngsters these days that even cell phones are not safe anymore? Up to a point, one could understand that desperate people go out stealing to feed their families or to feed certain habits most people would consider bad. But steali
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten - Close to thirty electronic devices were donated to the Salvation Army by the American University of the Caribbean (AUC) on Wednesday. The donation was seen as timely for the organization that is about to embark on its summer reading and
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GREAT BAY - Governor Eugene B. Holiday begins a two day working visit to St. Kitts today. This is his first official visit to the neighboring Eastern Caribbean country. The governor will hold talks with Governor General Cuthbert Sebastian, Deputy
Dear Mrs. Granston, Thank you for that beautiful article in your Today edition of today, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, of Charity Sam, on "Hard work truly pays off!" I read it with great emotions in my heart, and I truly wish her the very best, G
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
CAY HILL- The St.Maarten Ambulance Department is still fully functional with five ambulances in active service. So says department head Cylred Richardson following a public auction of one of the division’s emergency vehicles. The auction took pl
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
WILLEMSTAD/GREAT BAY - Usona has proclaimed success is ensuring that development funds it manages are not under spent. The comment is the core theme in the agency’s annual report for 2012. The organization signed a total of 305 financing agreements
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten – A conditional 9 month prison sentence, 3 years of probation and 150 hours of community service; that was the punishment for Raymison Railey Prescott in the Court in First Instance yesterday for his role in an attempted robbery on Marc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten – The Fire Department is once again calling on the community to be very conscious of not throwing out lighted cigarettes or matches that could result in bush fires due to the dry spell that the island is currently experiencing. People,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten – Allon Fernando Brooks came to court without an attorney to face charges for a burglary at the Juliana Bar in St. Peters in the night of April 25 to 26. He admitted that he had broken open the bar with a hammer and that he took a CD
We admit, it’s long term thinking but we’d still like to offer this reason for making the best of one’s school years. Cancer patients with a higher education often receive more far reaching medical treatment than patients with a lower education
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 21, 2012
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Roland Tuitt is seeking a meeting with Curacao’s Finance Minister George Jamaloodin to end the “kind of impasse” around the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten. Tuitt is especially concerned that the bank’
