St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
Robert Heligar with his wife, Silvia in happier timesSt. Maarten - A sixty seven year old produce vendor identified as Robert Heligar was rushed to the St. Maarten Medical Centre (SMMC) yesterday afternoon after he sustained stab wounds at the hands
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten – United People’s party MP Jules James lashed out at the parliament about its taste for closed door meetings. Public awareness is imperative! Why? Because this is how parliament and our governing institutions are held accountable.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten – Diony Rafael Rivas Hernandez probably knew what was coming to him so he did not attend the court session yesterday morning where Judge Tamara Tijhuis pronounced the sentence in his attempted manslaughter trial. The verdict: 24 months
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams will continue the U 2 Can Move fitness campaign with a zumba class in front of the government administration building today. The class begins at 5.15 p.m. Two weeks ago, the prime minister initiat
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
The former Martin Luther King School atop Mount William Hill.St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan will open the Justice Academy this afternoon at 4.30 p.m. The academy is housed in the former Martin Luther King School atop Mount William Hil
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
GREAT BAY / THE HAGUE - The first annual Unity Movement Day will be the second initiative of the Stichting Soualiga Foundation (SSF) since its formation in the Netherlands. The event has been scheduled for October 6 and according to the organizers is
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
THE HAGUE – Not Diederik Samsom’s Labor Party, but Jolande Sap’s struggling GreenLeft will most likely benefit from the link between the candidate lists of the two parties with the Socialist Party. On Wednesday evening, a residual seat went
A closed door meeting of the Central Committee about the zoning policy and development plans? Whoever came up with that idea must have lost his (or her) sense of reality. Vromi-Minister Marlin already presented the plans on August 22 during a press c
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten – The SXM Early Childhood Development Association holds a general meeting for pre-schools on Tuesday at the Bright Start Early Stimulation pre-school on Longwall Road, across from the Great Bay Sport Auditorium. The meeting begins at 6.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten –APS, the general pension fund administrator, has enlisted the personnel departments of the various employers of APS participants in distributing the final pension specification from the Antillean pension fund Apna. This specification p
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SABA - The Windward Islands Bank’s Saba branch made a donation to the Saba Dance School to help it with the purchase of dance equipment for the school’s re-opening. Branch manager Maureen Kingsale made the donation to Kelly Johnson (on the left i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten - More than two dozen delegates converged at the Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort and Casino yesterday to begin a two day conference on the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). They represented Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, St. Eustatius and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten - Prime Minister of St. Maarten Sarah Wescot-Williams met with the consultative organization for civil servants GOA on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the cost of living index. The meeting included numerous union representatives, bot
Public speakers, public school, public education, public works, the (general) public .... There are many occasions to use the word public and there is one way to royally screw it up: by forgetting to type one of the six letters in this innocuous word
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
MONTSERRAT - Residents of Montserrat were treated to one of the largest customer appreciation days ever held on their island recently, organized and hosted by Nagico Insurances, to mark the company’s thirtieth anniversary. Government officials,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten - The regular as well as potential customers of Keijzer Computer Systems in Orange Grove Cole Bay have an additional reason for visiting that location now that they have joined forces with Fun Miles. As a fitting introductory stunt, ca
St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
Organising committee members Erik van Engelen (right) with Ralph van Dijk and at left Sandra Garnier and Liesbeth de Falco. Robert Luckock Photo.St. Maarten / By Robert Luckock —Seriously-competitive mountain bikers will get a chance to prove
Let’s not beat about the bush here by coming up with all kind of cozy expressions for a harsh reality: too many people are too fat. Call it overweight, or obese or large size, it all comes down to the same. All these fat people pose a threat to the
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
THE HAGUE – Henk Kamp was appointed as “scout” by the faction leaders in the outgoing Dutch parliament yesterday. Kamp will examine what the assignment could be for the informateur for the formation of a new cabinet. Kamp, a member of Mark Rutt
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten – The Central Committee will meet in a closed door meeting with Vromi-Minister William Marlin this morning for a presentation about the zoning policy and development plans. The meeting begins at 10 a.m.
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
WILLEMSTAD - Tuesday marked the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the world Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. It also marked a day when the American embassy in Cairo and the American consulate in Benghazi were attacked. T
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten - A regional organization that deals with top level internet domains organizes workshops at the Sonesta Maho Beach Resort for participants from St. Maarten, Anguilla, Curacao, Haiti, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Panama and Arg
I am so tired. I am so tired of seeing our beautiful island being taken away from us. We build more and more concrete and now we continue filling in our ponds. Different government? Same idea! None of them really care about our environment. We
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
Alzheimer’s Disease International Pan-American representative Raymond Jessurun (l) poses with President of the St. Maarten Alzheimer’s Foundation Keith Franca and Public Health Minister Cornelius de Weever (r).GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Alzh
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten - Fourteen young men will be certified as maritime assistants after successfully completing level one of the advanced secondary professional technical education (SBO) maritime assistant course for the academic year 2011-2012. The new m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten – The Windward Islands Bank made a donation to the Police Sports Association to support the hosting of the annual police sports week that is scheduled for October 2 until October 14. Officers from Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, the Netherl
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
St. Maarten - Another type of fishing will take center stage when the St Maarten Sport Fishing Foundation organizes a fundraising ‘Bottom Fishing’ tournament next week Sunday, on September 23 in the water around Bobby's Marina. Unlike traditio
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 14, 2012
STATIA – On Wednesday captain-lieutenant-at-sea Hans Veerbeek, the commander of the new station ship in the Caribbean Hr. Ms. Van Amstel paid a visit to the governor of Statia, Gerold Berkel. The two men discussed the charity project the Van Ams
