French St. Martin News, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
PIC PARADIS, St. Martin - The serenity of the Pic Paradis hillside was disturbed on Thursday morning as the island barely averted a major disaster. It looked like a case of life imitating art like the movie Speed, as the driver of a 49 seater tour bu
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten – The United People’s party claimed credit for the approval of the 2012 budget by financial supervisor Cft in a statement issued by interim faction leader Sylvia Meyers-Olivacce that touted the achievements of ousted finance Minister
Okay, we know it is summer and we know it is hot. Fortunately, it is always hot in St. Maarten, so everybody ought to be used to it. Looking around in town, on the beach, in offices, in supermarkets, it is impossible not to notice that a lot of peopl
Dear Editor, The reports in the media recently that 2 Members of Parliament visited the Director of the Cadastre office, which ended in an explicative laden tirade by one of the MP's, painfully but unmistakably demonstrate that some of our elected
Another unpaid article about an aspect of St. Maarten culture: hypocrisy !The two biggest hypocrites? Chr.. Emma… and Leop.. Ja..! O.K., Patr…Ill… did not really behave nice. He should apologize, but Leop.. and Chr…should be ashamed. Instead
The accident in Pic Paradis focuses the attention on two issues: the technical condition of the buses and the skills of the drivers of such buses. At the moment it is not possible to determine what exactly caused the accident: technical failure or h
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten – The cause of the accident with the Dutch tour bus in Pic Paradis is still under investigation, so at this moment it is not possible to say whether it was cause by technical failure or by a human error. Martha Thewet, the head of the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams congratulated the attendees of the Dow Musical Foundation’s summer workshop on Thursday. The congratulations are coming ahead of today’s end of the camp because Wescot-Williams will not be able t
French St. Martin News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
From left Director of Technical Services Patrick Lentz, Vice president Louis Fleming and Director of the Security Commission Annick Williams during the press conference that was held at the Hotel de la Collectivite on Thursday morning. Marigot, St
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten – The heirs of the late Norman Chester Wathey served papers on Norman Wathey II on Wednesday demanding payment of a penalty of 30,000 guilders ($16,760) plus the costs for serving the papers. The heirs want to collect the penalty becaus
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten – Telem technicians will be carrying out a cable maintenance on Friday, July 20, 2012, which will affect service in the Lowlands area, starting from Cupecoy. The maintenance window will start from 6:00 a.m. and end at approximately 12:0
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
The Prime Minister and Advisor to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Emilia Thomas meet with the delegates to Aids 2012St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot Williams will be departing for the United States on Friday to head the eleven member S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten – Contractors and builders are requested to have a plan in place to prepare and secure their job sites in the event of a passing hurricane. The most active months of the hurricane season are less than two weeks away, August. Every effo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten – The 28th Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organizations (Canto) Annual Conference & Trade Exhibition will take place from July 22 - 25 in Miami under Canto’s 2012 calendar of events theme “Accelerating Broadband
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
Dear Brother Eldridge, You should hear them now. Don’t laugh Eld, whether its radio, internet, tv, the blogs, you name it. I have heard people call you such wonderful names. Don’t laugh too hard, they might hear you. Through all the battles th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
An appreciative group of young basketball players surround Seven Seas Water Managing Director Franklyn Richards as he makes cheque donation of 1500 U.S. dollars to St. Maarten Youth Beat Foundation recently. �
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
St. Maarten – Summer is here and so are the exciting offers of the Telem Group of Companies that can all be found in a beautifully laid out, full color “Summer Catalog 2012” now available free of charge to the general public at all Telem branc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 20, 2012
(left to right) Maria Henry, Joel Gustave, Cedric Ramdini and Stanley Hanson.St. Maarten – Section General Public Health (SGPH) announces that an evaluation is currently underway of a joint project between the mosquito control units of the Nort
The story about the confrontation at the Cadastre office between director Clemens Roos, MP Patrick Illidge, his first cousin Roberto Richardson and MP Roy Marlin has triggered a lot of reactions. Christopher Emmanuel took the role of mouthpiece for
