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St. Maarten – An acquittal of 3 years in prison? That question will keep Diony Rafael R.-H. (51) occupied until September 13 when Judge Tamara Tijhuis will pronounce her verdict in his attempted manslaughter case. On March 24, the defendant was
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St. Maarten– Not a single personnel file among the 324 the General Audit Chamber examined was complete, the Chamber’s Secretary General Joane Dovale-Meit said yesterday morning during a presentation of the organization’s first audit to the cent
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St. Maarten - Community police officer Juan Statie took a lead role on Wednesday in ensuring that sections of the Dutch Quarter community were safe before the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac. He was summoned by the president of the Dutch Quarter Comm
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St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams visited national security representatives of the United States in Langley Virginia where the Central Intelligence Agency CIA is headquartered. Employees of the National Security Service of Sint Ma
Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading your comments about nudity on your Opinion page this morning (Thursday, August 23) provoked by the now-famous photographs of Prince Harry in Las Vegas. For goodness sake, who cares, really? I also liked your dragging
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GREAT BAY- St.Maarten was spared the worst of Tropical Storm Isaac but as our photos from photographer Leo Brown suggests some areas did get a beating from heavy winds and intermittent rain, as well as the choppy seas. Everyone took precautions as
Julian Rollocks call for an independent investigation into the situation at the St. Maarten Medical Center follows our own call for a similar initiative in yesterday’s editorial. We think that the term audit for such a venture has a more prudent so
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St. Maarten - The Algemeen Pensioenfonds St.Maarten (APS) recently received a number of annual pension specifications from the former pension fund of the Netherlands Antilles Apna and has begun to distribute them amongst its participants. It was cust
The General Audit Chamber presented its first audit yesterday exactly on time: on the day that its two-year mandate expired. While nobody is going anywhere, this actually means that from today until proper action is taken, the country is formally
Wow, and we were somewhat worried about the travel disease among the members of our government and parliament. Now it turns out that Dutch civil servants are so concerned about the wellbeing of the islanders in Bonaire, Saba and Statia that they spen
Nobody is perfect and this is also true for the civil service. The report from the General Audit Chamber about personnel cost makes this once more abundantly clear. A lot of things are not in order within the government organization, but we now ha
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St. Maarten - Last Wednesday Jim Rosen of the Junior Golf Foundation received a donation from the Rotary Club of St.Maarten to be able to purchase an I-Pad3. The device and special software will assist the Junior Golf Foundation teachers with reviewi
Everybody is good at something and for Dutch women this seems to be smoking. There are only twenty countries in the world where more women smoke than in the Netherlands, according to the World Health Organization, the University of Buffalo and the Ce
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St. Maarten -The Hospitality and Trade Association SHTA has lauded the recent release of the first editions of Factors, a statistical magazine produced by the department of statistics Stat as an excellent initiative and a great tool for all businesse
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St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams expressed her condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the friends and family of the late Camille Bailey on Wednesday. “On Tuesday I was saddened to hear that the island lost a true pioneer in the c
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St. Maarten – The man accused of sixteen armed robberies and who was released from custody in April due to cell shortage did not appear in court yesterday to stand trial. Instead Leon Shaphan Olson Griffin (25) is recovering from a drive by shootin
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St. Maarten – Public prosecutor Gonda van der Wulp demanded a 1-month conditional prison sentence with 2 years of probation against two Dutch men for money laundering. The prosecutor wants to seize the $15,000 immigration officers confiscated from
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St. Maarten – Bernard M., a 68-year-old who suffers from a mental condition, attacked his neighbor’s car on several occasions between November 19, 2010 and February 12 of last year. Among others he destroyed the car’s windshield by throwing a s
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BELVEDERE---A new pension plan was presented to the employees of the St. Maarten Housing Development Foundation by Henderson Insurance on Thursday morning. “We had a pension plan before,” Director Henry Lynch said, “But there were a number of t
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St. Maarten – The government in Curacao is not allowed to compensate the budget deficits for 2010 and 2011 from its own capital, but it has to stick to the instruction from the Kingdom Council of Ministers that demands concrete measures from the Sc
