St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
Officers of the Special Robbery Unit and Forensic Department on the scene assessment after an officer shot a fleeing suspect on Thursday. (Leo Brown photo)GREAT BAY – Seventeen year old D.L. will head to the police station from the St. Maarten
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
Unites States represents quarters of all protesters St. Maarten – The online petition against legalizing cock fighting in St. Maarten surpassed 3,000 signatures yesterday afternoon, far surpassing the original goal of one thousand supporters for
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten - Twenty six students of sixth grade level of the Hillside Christian Schools presented their end of year project called Save the Salt Pond on Thursday. The students were given the opportunity to choose their own area of interest to resear
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten — President of the Windward Island Teachers Union Claire Elshot says the teacher who was fired from the Methodist Agogic Center is still waiting to receive her salary that is due to her after she returned from maternity leave in January
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Roland Tuitt had his last meeting with a bank on Wednesday on a new loan facility that will allow especially young people to start their own business. Government is hoping to boost the economy with this initiative tha
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten – Head of the Ambulance Department Cylred Richardson and staff of St. Maarten EMS presented Minister of Public Health Social Development & Labor, Cornelius De Weever with the adjusted Call 912 posters and brochures on Tuesday as part of
Ewoud Jansen, an economist who publishes in the Volkskrant, launched an interesting attack on the Dutch feel good approach to work. It is better to have no job than to have a useless one, he wrote yesterday. Jansen disagrees with economists who main
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten - Two of the island’s premier art institutions will be joining forces to present a full immersion into the world of contemporary arts at the John Larmonie Center this Saturday. The event, which is a collaboration between Imbali Center f
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
(left to right) Members of the Rotaract Club of St. Maarten Sunrise’s new board: Tyrone Yates, Janice Choisy-Wever, Aswayan Cooks, Janale Nisbett, Judith Bain, Elisia Lake, Norissa Anatol, Jean Phillipe Sylvestre, Lenica Leslie and Charles Rollan.S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten - Contractors have a little over a month to complete repair works at several major public schools on the island. Minister of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth Affairs Silveria Jacobs announced that the public schools rehabilitation sche
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten – “Absolutely not so. This government is not going to increase turnover tax.” Those were the words that Finance Minister Roland Tuitt used Wednesday to deny rumors that the Wescot-Williams II Cabinet is getting ready to raise turnov
The Pointe Blanche Inmates Association remains remarkably calm in the face of adverse conditions in the prison and also in the face of apparent misinformation and lines of communication that do not function as they ought to. They are in prison becau
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten – The General Audit Chamber is now a member of the Dutch Association of Audit Chambers and Audit Chamber Committees (NVRR). The organization is a forum for exchanging knowledge and experience so that institutions can contribute to good
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten - Elementary school teachers and caregivers will converge at the Westin Dawn Beach Resort and Spa for the first Teachers’ Summit under the auspices of new Minister of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth Affairs Silveria Jacobs. The summ
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
GREAT BAY – The Government of St. Maarten is being assisted by two staffers from the Board of financial supervision (Cft) in the crafting of an amendment to the 2012 budget. Finance Minister Roland Tuitt announced the direct assistance during Wedne
We figure that our politicians will pretend that there is no protest going on against their decision that made it possible to legally organize cock fights. They will not yield to pressure from foreigners, even though the arguments against cock fighti
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
President of Voices Nkosazana Illis officially invites Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. Silveria Jacobs to the Cultural Ancestral Day at the Emilio Wilson Park on Sunday July 1. (Photo contributed)St. Maarten - President of Voice
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten - L.L.B. and his girlfriend R.A.G. were arrested and detained on Wednesday for the role they played in a fight with B.D. D. is in the hospital in St. Martin because he was stabbed in the back several times during the fight. According to
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
Tourists are drawn to Maho Beach, St. Maarten due to the attraction landing and departing planes have to offer.St. Maarten – Traveler’s web site TripAdvisor put St. Maarten in the spotlight with a review of ten unique beaches. In the number 1 pos
Temperatures must be rising in Willemstad, after the Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that it is almost ready to go to court with its Bientu investigation. Bientu (Papiamento for “wind”) is everything Justice Minister Elmer Wilsoe does not
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
GREAT BAY/WILLEMSTAD – Henry Parisius, a notary on St. Maarten was reelected President of the Association of Antillean and Aruban Civil Law Notaries at the body’s recent annual general membership meeting in Curacao. The other members of the b
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
Ser Netherlands’ director of Economic Affairs Marco Bos, Ser Aruba’s vice-chairman Michel A. Henriquez, Ser Aruba’s Chairman Rudy Geerman, Ser Curacao’s Chairman Stanley Betrian, Ser Curacao’s Secretary-general Josephine Provence, S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten -The ministries of education and labour have joined forces to address teacher shortage on St. Maarten. Just before leaving the island, Labour Minister Cornelius de Weever met with Education Minister Silveria Jacobs to discuss a review of
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
Governor drs Eugene B. Holiday poses with Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Sir Dwight Venner in the latter’s office on Thursday. Holiday called on Venner as part of an official visit to St. Kitts that lasted from June 20 to June 2
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Roland Tuitt has placed revamps to the fees that casinos pay in the broader context of revamping the tax system. He has also said government continues to work on the establishment of a Gaming Control Board. “We ar
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 22, 2012
WILLEMSTAD – The Dutch Representation in Willemstad has confirmed the signing of a new management agreement between the Dutch Ministry of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations and Foundation Development Funds Netherlands Antilles (Sona). Sona announce
