St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten – The first suspect in the December 30, 2009 murder of Afoo Food Club Manager Eric Yuan Sam was taken into custody on Monday in the House of Detention. Chief prosecutor Hans Mos identified the suspect as A.D., who was recently sentence
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – We are in contact with the Health Inspectorate almost every day. Do you really think that we could let people work here that are not licensed or that are no doctors? We are constantly busy improving the quality of he
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Pride Foundation kicked of the annual coastal cleanup early with the help of students from the Kellogg School of Management. The target of their activities this week was Little Key Island in the Simpson Bay Lagoon and wh
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
THE HAGUE - The cost to the treasury of tax relief on privately owned houses has nearly doubled since 2000, rising from €16.9 billion (($9.4 billion) to €33 billion ($18.4 billion) in 2011, the Central Bureau for Statistics CBS said yesterday. T
It took some time but now it seems that justice will be done for Eric Yuan Sam, the supermarket manager who was murdered on December 30, 2009 in Dutch Quarter. With Akeem Daniel, a young man who was recently sentenced to 9 years for being an accompli
St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
GREAT BAY- New comers to the Futsal League, Caribbean Auto Stars are yet to record a victory since the start of the competition which is in its fourth week, in an almost one sided game they went down hard to Mix Italia by 10 goals to one in the final
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten - Community police officers have teamed up with the cabinet of Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and pledged to take part in the U 2 Can Move health and fitness campaign. During a meeting held at the prime minister’s office on Tuesda
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
GREAT BAY – Starting today St. Maarten will be the backdrop for the annual hurricane exercise Hurex. One hundred marines arrive this afternoon on the island. They will take part in a hurricane relief exercise together with the local emergency servi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten – The International Coastal Cleanup got a kick start just before the designated month of September with a group of 23 visiting MBA students from Kellogg school of Management this week. The students from this university are vacationing o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
THE HAGUE 'Women seldom get pregnant as a result of rape and that is a fact,' orthodox Christian party SGP leader Kees van der Staaij told a TV program on Tuesday. He was reacting to a question about the controversy in the US around similar remarks
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
THE HAGUE - Almost 50,000 Dutch expats who live abroad have signed up to vote in the September 12 general election. In total, 48,291 out of the estimated 500,000 Dutch nationals with voting rights abroad registered before the August 1 deadline. This
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
GREAT BAY-The St.Maarten Volleyball Association has postponed its general membership meeting to Tuesday September 4 at 7:00 pm at its meeting room. The meeting was originally scheduled for Tuesday night. The world championship qualifier volleyball t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) will this week announce its public preparations for Carnival 2013, having put certain things in place behind the scenes over the past few months. President of the foundation Stua
Gossip is not always an innocent pastime, as the St. Maarten Medical Center is now experiencing. The malicious publications that have made the hospital look like a place one would not wish on his worst enemy are seemingly designed to obstruct expansi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten -The Soualiga Capoeira Foundation will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary in November. To commemorate these achievements the group will be hosting an international encounter entitled” Capoeira in Paradise”. To facilitate the marke
Kees van der Staaij the leader of the orthodox religious party SGP earned himself a body guard after his remarks that women hardly ever get pregnant after they’ve been raped. Well, we don’t know why anybody would still want to be the body guard
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten – The Ministry of Public Housing, Spatial Development, Environment and Infrastructure (Vromi) will resume its public consultation process about draft development plans next week. A follow-up town hall meeting is scheduled for Monday, S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten - In keeping with its continued mantra of peace in schools, the Peace Is Foundation presented the Methodist Agogic Centre Campuses (St. John’s & Betty’s Estate) with materials that will be used in tackling issues such as non-violence,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten - After a long vetting process in Brazil to verify his credentials, Clifford Henry became the first Capoeira instructor to come out of local group, Soualiga Capoeira. In May, Henry accompanied his mentor, group founder Tyrone Phelipa, alo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten – Biker Chris Smith was laid to rest yesterday. The 36-year-old died last Sunday when he took part in an illegal street race in French Quarter. The hearse for the black coffin that contained his earthly remains was a truck from his empl
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten – TelEm Group will make adjustments to the company’s switching equipment from midnight to accommodate necessary changes for adoption of the ongoing North America Numbering Plan system. As a result of these adjustments all landline
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten - On Friday, civil servants will join Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams in her campaign for the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Called U 2 Can Move, the initiative provokes all those on the government’s payroll, especially females to
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten - “There’s a book for everyone” at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library’s book sale on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Parents, teachers and caregivers will be able to take advantage of our huge selection of children books in
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
THE HAGUE -Support for the Socialist Party may be falling following the first televised debate between the leaders of the four biggest parties contesting the September 12 general election. A new TNS Nipo poll published on Tuesday shows a four-seat
Rotterdam is the city of hardworking people in the Netherlands, whereas Amsterdam is full of artists and wannabes. Okay, not everybody will agree with that last observation but that is not the point. Rotterdam has a professional soccer club called Fe
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 29, 2012
St. Maarten – A select company of citizens with a warm place in their heart for Emilio Wilson attended a brief ceremony in the Emilio Wilson park yesterday afternoon to commemorate what would have been the 101st birthday of the man who gave the est
I have often called our government socialist. However, they are now beyond socialist, they are "fascist." The fundamentals of socialism are government ownership of businesses, control of the market, labour and production. Everyone is aware of monop
