St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – Much to the delight of her family and friends, Judge Maria Paulides yesterday suspended the pretrial suspension of Wulkiria Liesje G., a 24-year old who is a suspect in the ill-treatment of two young school boys and the robbery of a n
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Roland Tuitt wants to clean up the backlog of bills going back before 2005 that previous governments have not paid. The minister estimates the total amount on these debts is between 20 and 30 million guilders. The m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
Curacao/St. Maarten - Finance Minister Roland Tuitt says the government intends to raise questions on the management of United Telecommunication Services’ (UTS) 12 million guilder payment for surplus on stock. His announcement at Wednesday’s Coun
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – The government of St. Maarten is taking the initiative to organize a summit between Curacao and St. Maarten to discuss the way forward on the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten. The meeting will be held here based on the acceptan
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
THE HAGUE – Outgoing Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Liesbeth Spies has expressed the hope that the government of Curaco will now take up its responsibility and bring its budget into compliance with the stipulations of the Kingdom La
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Eustatius Musical Foundation member Henky Rivers accepting the financial contribution of $5000 from UTS Marketing and Communication Officer Ivy Lambert.ORANJESTAD, St. Eustatius – UTS has pledged its support to the St. Eustatius Musical Foundat
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – The Baby Wellness Clinic located at Brouwers Road 6A, behind FATUM Insurances will be closed during the afternoon hours from Monday, July 23 to Wednesday July, 25. The clinic is normally open five days a week Monday to Friday from 8:0
The University of Amsterdam claims that fifty percent of the people in the Netherlands want an independent hallmark for the quality of journalism. Almost two-thirds are of the opinion that journalists who do not abide by the rules for journalism ough
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – The trial of Eliseo C.-G., who is accused of sexually abusing a 12-year old girl from the beginning of this year until his arrest on April 4, was postponed until August 16 yesterday in the Court in First Instance. The defendant’s at
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – Security was beefed up at the courthouse yesterday afternoon before the court appearance of two robbery-suspects, Gilbert Ch. and Johan Alberto R. All visitors to the courtroom, journalists included, had their bags subjected to a thor
Dear Mr. Hilbert Haar, Editor-in-Chief of the Today newspaper, Exactly one week ago, on July 11, 2012, an open letter by me was published in your paper in the form of a 'free advice' to you. In that letter, I advised you to 'tread with extreme
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – Democratic Party MP Roy Marlin declined to comment to this newspaper yesterday evening about media reports that he will be seeking the dismissal of Cadastre director Clemens Roos. “You did not call me before you ran the story. Now
So now the discussion is not about the improper behavior of MP Patrick Illidge during a meeting at the Cadastre office but about the factual reporting in this newspaper on Tuesday. To be exact: about the use of a four-letter word in a quotation attri
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – Gleivon Daniel C. will have to remain behind bars until at least September 19 to face charges for two robberies. He is charged with committing an armed robbery on March 18 of last year whereby he allegedly threatened his victim with a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – By now Derick Delan W. has spent something like 268 days in pretrial detention but he will have to wait another 91 days until his trial comes up on October 17. The 22-year old is a suspect in the October 24, 2011 armed robbery at the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – “I was quite pleased that under the agenda point “Status of affairs of the budget of St. Maarten” I could have held up the letter of the (Board of financial supervision – edi.,) Cft of, as recently as, the 10th of July indicat
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
Participants in Dow Musical Foundation entertain cruise passengers at the harbour on Wednesday.St. Maarten - Participants of the Dow Musical Foundation Steel Pan Summer Workshop performed a musical rendition on the harbour on Wednesday to the del
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance moved the trial of Jamal Gemali B., a suspect in a chain-snatching case, to august 16 at the request of prosecutor Mr. Doenia Bennamar because the case file is not complete. The 22-year old defendant robbed
With a bit of bad luck, columnist Bert Wagendorp wrote in the Volkskrant on Tuesday, we’ll end up with fourteen different factions in the Second Chamber after the September 12 elections and the largest party will have just 30 seats. That could easi
Trouw, a Dutch newspaper that appeared for the first time in 1943 as an illegal publication during the German occupation, offers readers a completely different perspective on the news compared to the big brothers in the national press like the Telegr
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St. Maarten - The first batch of community police officers are nearing the completion of their training course at the Miami Dade School of Justice in Florida. They will graduate on Friday, July 20 at 3:00 p.m. The grouping, which was set up under
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 19, 2012
St. Maarten - An estimated 100 children are in the foster care system in French St. Martin. This is of concern to President of the Collectivité of the St. Martin Alain Richardson, who believes that the absence of proper legislation on both sides of
