St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
Left to right: Julius Lambert, airport staffers Robert Brown, Daphne Roberts and Suzy Kartokromo, and airport managing Director Regina Labega. (PJIAE photo)St. Maarten - The Princess Juliana International Airport Operating Company made a donation for
Less travel and more law making was one of the statements we remember from immediately after the fall of the first Wescot-Williams cabinet. It sounded like a lofty promise – and it was. So here we are after the summer recess with the first centr
Dear editor, I know Mr. Corallo as a young kid under the grape tree and at the casino at Sea view. He was the Michael Jackson of St. Maarten; a handsome lad, very friendly and all the girls loved him. I also got the opportunity to know him better
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
Prime Minister Wescot-Williams and Finance Minister Roland Tuitt confer with Curacao’s Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte via a video link.St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and Finance Minister Roland Tuitt will likely attend a me
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Corporate citizen Nagico has partnered with local foundation Voice of Our Children (VOOC) to produce bumper stickers for the new academic year on the topic of bullying. The insurance company has been very supportive of all of the founda
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten – After fifty years, Winair has lost the right to provide air ambulance services to Saba and Statia, the company said in a press release issued yesterday. “Winair has been informed that it does not comply with existing regulations
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten – The Central Committee of parliament kicks off the new political season with a meeting on Friday morning. Two of the four agenda points are about traveling abroad: a visit to The Hague to attend a reception for the departing President
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – The Office of Disaster Management urges livestock owners to review their plans of how they will secure their livestock in the event of a hurricane. Livestock owners should make sure that their animal holding areas and other
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
Tour operators for Olympus in Bolivia .St. Maarten - Copa Vacations tour operators from all over South America visited St. Maarten this week. Agents from Lares Tours Uruguay and Olympus Bolivia discovered the joys of island life under the sun whi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
Stevenson Simplice (center) in the musical The Covenant.St. Maarten – This Sunday evening the New Testament Baptist Church in Philipsburg will show The Covenant, a musical featuring Saint Martin born Stevenson Simplice. The movie was produced an
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten – Tonight there is a hurricane awareness and preparation forum at the Rupert Maynard community center in St. Peters for residents of the St. Peters and Marigot Hill communities. The forum begins at 7 p.m. The goal of the meeting is t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines announced on Monday via blogspot Royal K that it will waive the entry fee for everyone wishing to participate in its annual Royal 5K race on St. Maarten. The company says that it made this decision after Bri
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GREAT BAY - St. Maarten is vulnerable because there is very little drinking water on the island, Kevin Dekkers says. Citizens depend on imported bottled water and on the desalinated water utilities company Gebe distributes to private homes and busine
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Martina Bartelink has joined the KPMG Advisory team in Sint Maarten, the company announced in a press release issued yesterday. Bartelink has lived and worked in the Caribbean before and is well known with the public sector here and in
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Representatives of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) and its local chapter the St. Maarten Alzheimer’s Foundation met with the leaders of several service organizations yesterday afternoon at Cheers Restaurant on Front Street.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Lasana M. Sekou returned on Monday from Dominica where he participated in the Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair in Roseau (8/10-12/12). The festival invited Sekou to read his fiction and poetry and to conduct the workshop on
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten – On Monday evening the Mental Health Foundation signed a cooperation agreement with the Capriles Clinic in Curacao. The agreement makes the Mental Health Foundation an acknowledged partner of the Capriles Group. “MHF and Capriles
It is amazing that the outgoing government of Curacao is still pursuing its quest to oust Central Bank president Dr. Emsley Tromp. The Schotte-government should not have started this exercise to begin with, and now that his cabinet has fallen to a lo
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
Sophie Peters, a Belgian student who made a documentary called Femme de la rue (Woman of the streets) has triggered a seemingly never-ending discussion in European media about the way some men treat women in public places. The documentary shows how P
A remarkable broadcast on Dutch television yesterday: an interview with captain Raymond Westerling by journalist Joep Buttinghausen from 1969. The more than 40-year-old interview was never broadcast in the Netherlands. There was not a single TV-stati
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten - Last week the Council of Ministers concluded its information sessions with all Secretary Generals. In the picture Vromi’s Secretary General Louis Brown presents his overview and plans of the Ministry of Public Housing, Urban Planning,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 15, 2012
St. Maarten – TelEm Group and show promoters Riddimbox present a concert with reggae star Romain Virgo at the Soggy Dollar bar next week Saturday. TelEm and the promoter worked together earlier this year during carnival on the Red Nation concert.
