GREAT BAY-President of the Windward Islands Teachers Union (Witu) Claire Elshot is echoing the calls general pension fund administrator APS made last week for several categories of public servants to thoroughly check their final pension specificati
Please allow me to address the letters to the editor regarding the filling-in of the Great Salt Pond by a “Concerned Citizen” printed on September 17th, 2012 and by “G. Pontiff” published on September 19th, 2012. Permit me to repeat myself
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY- The Windward Islands Teachers Union is mulling over its options in forcing the education ministry’s hand to serve public education workers with official decrees that they are working for the government of St.Maarten. Union leader Clai
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – The Justice Ministry has given up the fight against the Dutch-American Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, commonly referred to as the Friendship Treaty. Justice Minister Roland Duncan resigns to the September 11 court ruling
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – Michael Angelo L. painted the usual picture of his involvement in two armed robberies: “I know nothing and I am from nowhere,” Prosecutor mr. Gonda van der Wulp described his attitude during his trial in the Court in First Instance
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – Leydie Chantal D.R., a petite 25-year-old charged with smuggling 225 grams of cocaine from Curacao to St. Maarten on June 27, was released from detention yesterday afternoon after Judge mr. Tamara Tijhuis ordered a lab-test to ascertain
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY- If an opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The local branch of money transfer company, Western Union International has beefed up its public awareness campaign against fraud. The company recently unveiled advertising mate
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY (DCOMM) – Health officials from Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, the BES islands and the Netherlands, concluded their mini expanded program on immunization (EPI) two-day conference last week with the intention to move forward on a number of
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY- The 28th Pan American Sanitary Conference in Washington D.C ends today on a positive note for St.Maarten in two areas. Firstly, St.Maarten was accepted as an associate member of the Pan American Health Organization on Monday afternoon and
Whoever manages the air conditioning system in the courthouse in Philipsburg needs to read up on how to handle these systems and get a grip on what is generally understood by healthy working conditions. Yesterday our thermometer in the upstairs co
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY- The Leeward Islands one day tournament sponsored by Nagico Insurances is set to make a grand return to the Caribe Ballpark after a one year absence and already the local selectors have called up 26 players for trials. This new developme
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – The reliability of police reports took center stage yesterday morning during the trial of Norvin Adelbert W., who was caught in the possession of a loaded firearm and ten rounds of ammunition on August 1. The case hinges on the question
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY- The Windward Island Teachers Union (Witu) plans to meet with its sister unions in Curacao and Aruba during the week October 1 to October 5 to discuss the future and sustainability of the cost of living adjustment (Cola) as they continue co
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY - The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications has published an extensive explanation about the recent increase in fuel prices. This is the ministry’s reaction: “Gasoline prices are affected by a compositio
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – Unaware of the decision taken by Justice Minister Roland Duncan about admitting Americans by right to St. Maarten based on the Dutch-American Friendship treaty, members of the parliamentary committee on Kingdom Affairs and Inter-parliam
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY - Police officers found the car that was possibly used in the armed robbery on the Happy Star restaurant on Cannegieter Street on Wednesday yesterday evening around 8 p.m. A patrol was directed to the Arlet Peters Road – the road that
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – A 55-year-old married defendant who attacked a man in his girlfriend’s house with a knife on June 15 was sentenced to a 12-month conditional prison sentence with 2 years probation. He also has to complete 200 hours of community servic
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY – Flashlight, Flamingo and Cashmoney went to the projects on July 2 to call a man to account they claimed had stolen Cashmoney’s cousins motorbike. The encounter did not result in polite conversation but in a ruckus whereby machetes, ro
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 21, 2012
GREAT BAY-The St. Maarten Nature Foundation removed numerous animals that make their home in the Simpson Bay Lagoon from the causeway construction site. The foundation asked contractor Volker Stevin Caribbean that they send notification when dredging
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY-Minister of Public Health Cornelius De Weever met last Friday with the New York Executive Committee of the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad (AMHE) who was here on a site visit, because they are planning to host their 2013 convention
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY - For over a week now an attentive reader spotted a police van parked on a parking spot reserved for disabled motorists. I think it is a big shame, she wrote to this newspaper, that the driver apparently didn't see the problem of parking
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY-From Mozart to Jazz is the theme of a fund raising activity in aid of assisting people that are physically challenged hosted by Top Promotion committee Be Able. The event will be held on Saturday September 29 to cover expenses of the group�
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY – An employee who stole $8,500 worth of booze from International Liquor and Tobacco on May 21 to sell it to the owner of the Plaza China supermarket not only lost his job, he also netted a 3-month conditional prison sentence with 2 years
Dear Mr. Editor: With consternation I read Today (Sept 19, 2012) about our judges and their thinking in the case of 2 "gypsy-bandits/Regatta-Killers." Victims robbed violently... One victim raped several times... Six men were robbed and three
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY – Gleivon Daniel C. celebrated his 23rd birthday yesterday with an appearance in the Court in First Instance to face two robbery charges. Judge Tamara Tijhuis congratulated the defendant with his birthday, but prosecutor mr. Georges van d
If Mitt Romney, George Bush, Barack Obama, Queen Beatrix, Mark Rutte and Sarah Wescot-Williams and all their contemporaries were as sensitive about criticism as Muslims are about their prophet Mohammed all political cartoonists, critical journalists
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY – Wulkiria Liesje G. was close to tears at the prospect of losing her driving license for 12 months yesterday. The 24-year-old cab driver stood trial together with 18-year-old Angel R. for going on a crusade against two schoolboys who had
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY – Police arrested an 18-year-old suspect of armed robbery at his home on Monday evening. The suspect, T.D.W. was allegedly involved in a robbery at the Sunshine supermarket on the Genip Road twenty minutes prior to his arrest. Supermarket
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY- A ten member delegation headed by Martin Wilson, President of the St Maarten Bodybuilding & Fitness Association left for Puerto Rico yesterday to participate in the CAC championships on Saturday. The athletes on the delegation are D
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY-Junior Chamber International St. Maarten is inviting all high school students to take part in its annual Youth Speech Contest on Sunday October 28. The contest is being held under the theme “Cultural Diversity is strength rather than a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY - Last evening around eight o’clock armed robbers took aim at the Happy Star restaurant on Cannegieter Street. Police were quickly on the scene.”Shots were fired in an attempt to arrest,” Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos told this newspaper
St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY - The Tigers baseball sent a clear message when they defeated the Blue Jays by 19 runs to 5 in the 2012 Double A competition which is only in its second week, but no home runs were scored in that game. Giovanni Gibs emerged as the winnin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY – Hector Uhrighe played sugar daddy for a woman with whom he maintained a loose relationship, but when he did not get anything in return for his financial contributions to her shopping and beauty parlor expenditures on June 10 he flipped
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY – Telecom provider UTS and Rotary Club of St. Martin Sunrise have collaborated on a pilot project at the Martin Luther King School offering a portion of the student population who come to school without having breakfast a nutritional, hea
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 20, 2012
GREAT BAY - The permanent parliamentary committee for Kingdom Affairs and Inter Parliamentary Relations meets this morning at 120 a.m. to discuss a ten-point agenda. On the agenda are the convention for the protection of intangible cultural heri
