St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Miguel Alexander and Kelvin Bloyden refuse to step aside as members of the supervisory board of the St. Maarten Harbor Holding Company. In a letter they submitted to the Council of Ministers yesterday morning Alexander and Bloyden wri
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Public prosecutor Georges van den Eshof demanded 12 months imprisonment against 41-year-old Sharon August Benevento Trinidad yesterday for taking bribes from two Chinese entrepreneurs on Illidge Road and for forging a so-called safe
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten - Finance Minister Roland Tuitt is crying foul over the statements made by Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Minister Liesbeth Spies that the door for St.Maarten to receive debt relief has now closed. St.Maarten forfeited its rights to r
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
GREAT BAY / By Milton G. Pieters - Once again, St Maarten has come under the microscope of counterfeiting and piracy and a few businesses will have to count their losses after a raid by bailiffs who removed sacks of clothing and designer ladies hand
Two members of the Harbor Holding supervisory board have rightfully dug in their heels and they are not giving up their seats without a fight. In a letter to the Council of Ministers Kelvin Bloyden and Miguel Alexander have explained their reasons fo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
NAPLES– A new study of a major urban safety campaign launched by the United Nations two years ago has found that political leadership is more important than a city’s wealth when it comes to protecting the lives and economic assets of cities and t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten - The island was plunged into widespread hysteria when news broke that a massive tsunami could be heading this way and also affect the wider region. It was all as a result of a Blackberry message that went viral midmorning yesterday based
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance postponed the trial against two brothers who repeatedly raped their younger sisters until October 3 yesterday. During an earlier court appearance on May 16, the court decided to send the boys to Curacao for
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten - The government asked a one month extension to finalize and submit the 2013 draft budget to the board for financial supervision Cft and the Council of Advice yesterday according to Finance Minister Roland Tuitt. The September 1 deadline
A royal flush is every poker player’s wet dream. It is the best hand in Texas Hold’em games – the ace, king, queen, jack and ten of the same suit: hearts, clubs, diamonds or spades. If no limit Texas Hold’em is the Cadillac of poker, the roya
It is rather tricky to classify crimes, say, on a scale from 1 to 10 whereby 10 represents the worst possible crime. Most people would put murder in the highest category. But where to rank all those other law-breaking activities like rape, incest, bu
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Emanuel Velasquez yesterday morning to 48 months for raping a woman repeatedly in a hotel room at the Travel Inn in Simpson Bay on December 30 and 31 2009. Of the sentence 12 months are suspended
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Atlantis owner Francesco Corallo is still on the wanted list of Interpol. Initially, after the news was first released in July, Corallo offered to report to the authorities under certain conditions, but after attorney General Dick Pia
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – On Monday, a delegation from the Sint Maarten Social Economic Council (Ser) paid a visit to the Cabinet of the Minister Plenipotentiary Mathias S. Voges, where it also met with director Cor James, and policy advisors Perry Gee
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St. Maarten – The Hospitality and Trade Association SHTA will grant 13 awards in four categories during its seventh Crystal Pineapple Awards fundraiser on November 30. This year’s categories are extraordinary, hospitality, trade and community awa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten - The 2011-2012 parliamentary year closes Monday in a meeting that begins at 10 a.m. under the presidency of drs. Rodolphe Samuel. Incoming documents and closure of the parliamentary year are the only two agenda points. The next morning,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten – There are no plans to engage SZV as the financer for the purchase of the Emilio Wilson Estate, Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams said at yesterday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. Earlier the government announced that it pl
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 6, 2012
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams declined to give an approximate date for when the first civil servants will be behind their desks in the new government administration building on Pond Island. “I would be tempted to give such an
