St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 30, 2012
St. Maarten — There was hardly “a dry eye” as 58 St. Maarten students prepared to depart the Princess Juliana International Airport on Sunday to further their education in the Netherlands. There was an outpouring of emotions as the assembled pa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 30, 2012
GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Nature Foundation is once again warning about the large amounts of Sargasso Seaweed washing ashore on local beaches. Based on surveys at sea and in the air there are several large patches of Sargasso seaweed heading into t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 30, 2012
“Resistance against change is part of the process” GREAT BAY / By Hilbert Haar – “St. Maarten is not used to giving its citizens a voice. And yet this is necessary to gain support for the zoning plans that are under development. The govern
For years and years we have seen the same thing. Students head to the airport to head off to the Netherlands for their studies and we see the long tears and extended hugs. One would get the impression that the annual farewell is a funeral. Well guess
Dear Editor, In your edition of last Friday, you published an article about the use by the Westin of its generators and how this use is being perceived by its neighbors. While the whole tenor of this article is not exactly a shining example of ne
Dear Editor, My country St. Maarten has made all impossible things possible. On cock fight issue we see people from countries all over the world joining forces with so called prominent St. Maarteners (former Commissioner Michel Deher, Louis Engel
Attorney Karel Frielink gave his vision on the instruction the Schotte-government received from the Kingdom Council of Ministers on his blog site last week. This is what he wrote. “The Kingdom government has given the government of Curacao an in
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 30, 2012
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams met with recently appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Caribbean, Central American and Cuban Affairs Liliana Ayalde during an official visit to the United States State Department last Tue
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 30, 2012
St. Maarten - The Philipsburg Toastmasters Club installed its new board for the 2012/2013 year at a ceremony held at the Come Center on Long Wall Road recently. The executive board comprises Donna Wilson-Morrison as president, Georges Richardson as v
An iconic picture taken at the beach in Maho will become part of a collection at the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart next year. The picture shows a by now 23-year old Mercedes G-class car. The woman facing the camera must be Christine, the late wife of
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 30, 2012
St. Maarten - MSNBC and traveler website CruiseCritic.com have picked up on the story of the tour bus crash that happened at Loterie Farm a little over a week ago. Several Freedom of the Seas cruise passengers injured while on a ship-sponsored excurs
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on July 30, 2012
St. Maarten – Section General Public Health (SGPH) of Collective Prevention Services (CPS) will be posting information on the Government Information Page (GIP) about the different forms of hepatitis throughout the week as part of the observance of
