St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 7, 2012
Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams (second left) watches as Marinka Gumbs (right) signs the notarial deed establishing the St. Maarten Development Fund (SDF). (L to R) SDF Board Member Joy Arnell, Notary Henry Parisius and SDF President Richelda Em
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 7, 2012
(Left to right) Second from left President of Parliament Gracita Arrindell, Romain Laville, Roy Marlin and second from right Patrick Illidge standing with other MPs in Ecuador at a Parlatino meeting. (Parlatino meeting)St. Maarten – President o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 7, 2012
St. Maarten - Finance Minister Roland Tuitt, who used to run an accounting firm, plans to amend the subsidy ordinance to make things easier for all foundations. In its current form, the law requires foundations to give a financial report to governmen
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 7, 2012
St. Maarten – The section of Welfare Road from Daily Extra Supermarket will become a two way road again starting at 9:00 a.m on Monday when the Waterfront Road is closed to through traffic. Wrigley Road and other side streets near Waterfront Road w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 7, 2012
St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan has promised to systematically shut down programs in the prison if the ongoing strike led by the Point Blanche Inmates Association continues. He also announced on Wednesday that he plans to file a counte
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 7, 2012
St. Maarten – Head of the Section General Public Health (SGPH) Maria Henry, and Dr. Grace Spencer - a family physician who contributes to the local sentinel surveillance system - returned from Jamaica over the weekend after attending a workshop on
The drama around the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The latest scene is the request by the board to suspend the director Emsley Tromp. The Government of St. Maarten will respond soon, and likely so will
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
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
Finance Minister Roland Tuitt and MP Patrick Illidge speak ahead of the start of Monday’s Central Committee meeting. (Leo Brown photo)Minister Tuitt: no tender, no signed contract St. Maarten – Former Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto broke
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
From left to right Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labour Affairs Cornelius de Weever, Director H. Booi- and Raymond Peterson of St.Maarten Laboratory Services on a guided tour of the lab located in Betty’s Estate.St. Maarten
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Silveria Jacobs shakes hands with National Alliance MP Hyacinth Richardson after parliament unanimously approved the law making Emancipation Day – July 1 – an official public holiday. Leo Brown
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Tourism Bureau sent out an e-mail blast this weekend highlighting the shopping opportunities here. According to the statement three simple words make the island of St. Maarten a shopper’s paradise - duty-free shopping.
Dear Editor, I wish to express my profound disappointment in the “Mario Bros on Ice” Show that was held at the L.B. Scot Sports Auditorium on June 2 and June 3. In my opinion the show was a total rip off. When I paid $25 for my daughter and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
Nature Foundation Researcher and Lionfish Hunt 2012 Coordinator Tineke van Bussel with staff of Ocean Explorers Dive CenterSt. Maarten – Ocean Explorers Dive Center has been declared the winner of lionfish Hunt 2012, which officially came to an
Next time you catch a common cold – not unlikely with all those air conditioning systems blowing – don’t bother to rush to your doctor for antibiotics, because they don’t work. General practitioners have a habit of prescribing antibiotics fo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
Policy Support Worker Cheryl Rohan, Integrity Dilemma Trainer Ralston Bennet, Usona Representative Angela Dekker, Integrity Program Manager Tammy Richardson, Prime Minister Sarah Wescot William, Finance Minister Roland Tuitt and Head of the Depar
Here we go again. The European soccer championship is about to begin this Friday in the Ukraine and the Netherlands is hotly debating whether VIPs (Very Irritating People) should boycott the tournament because former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
St. Maarten – The Central Committee meeting about the Cft-letters concerning the 2012 budget will continue on Monday morning at ten o’clock. Finance Minister Roland Tuitt gave MPs last night an overview of the country’s financial position, but
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten Cable T.V. switched off a faulty breaker at midnight Tuesday to replace a faulty breaker that led to several outages during the weekend. The outages affected customers all across the Dutch side. “Late Saturday evening to
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
St. Maarten – Members of Parliament confronted Finance Minister Roland Tuitt during his inaugural appearance in a Central Committee meeting yesterday evening pertinent and pregnant questions about the 2012 budget deficit and about the contract the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on June 5, 2012
St. Maarten - Ombudsman Dr. Nilda Arduin is one of several feature speakers at the Second Curacao International Ombudsman Conference, which will take place at the World Trade Center in Curacao. Dr. Arduin has been invited to present on the topic “T
