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WILLEMSTAD – Former Lt. Governor Stanley Betrian became the Prime Minister of Curacao after he was sworn in on Saturday by Acting Governor Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede, but ousted government leader Gerrit Schotte initially barricaded himself with no
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Aids Foundation tested 145 citizens for HIV on Saturday at the Charles Leopold Bell School in Cole Bay. In all, 66 women (54 percent) and 79 men (56 percent) used the opportunity for a free HIV-test. The Alzheimer’s Fo
St. Maarten – The Westin Hotel has to admit St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade President and Princess Heights Hotel manager Emil Lee immediately to the public areas of its hotel and to events for which Lee has an invitation, the Court in First Insta
The first word that comes to mind considering the behavior of outgoing Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte is this one: shameful. That Schotte initially refused to leave his office (literally) after the appointment of Stanley Betrian as interim prime mi
In old murder mysteries it was usually the butler who had done it. In these times of stress and bloated egos the foreigner is more often than not seen as the cause of everything that is wrong in a country. Leopold James who, just like this newspap
One little lesson is to be learned from what happened in the Netherlands: the high tariff of the value added tax went up from 19 to 21 percent. This brings of course to mind St. Maarten’s turnover tax. Remember how the Chamber of Commerce splutt
The latest news from Curacao: MFK MPs Pisas, Felida and Garmers have accused governor Frits Goedgedrag of involvement in a scheme to bribe Dean Rozier (whose departure from the MFK led to the fall of the Schotte-government) into leaving the MFK for 5
St. Maarten – Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications Romeo Pantophlet, left the island yesterday with a delegation to the annual Florida Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) conference and trade show that is
St. Maarten – President of Parliament Drs. Rodolphe Samuel met with Minister Plenipotentiary Mathias Voges, his deputy Henrietta Doran-York and the cabinet staff during his recent visit to the Netherlands. The meeting dealt with the current loca
St. Maarten - Laugh out Loud productions added a category for junior DJs to its 7th annual Rock the House event after 13-year-old Melanie Steel approached organizers with her interests of performing and competing against big DJs at the event. Instead
Marigot, St. Martin - There has been a call for a financial plan because of the high unemployment in the overseas territories at a meeting of the presidents of these territories which in the Azores. Collectivité President Alain Richardson said it is
St. Maarten / ORANJESTAD - The Social Economic Council (Ser) attended the celebration of its Aruban sister organization’s 25th anniversary last week. The Aruban Ser was launched in the second year after the island obtained status aparte in 1986.
St. Maarten - The more than 200 members of the Sint Maarten Seniors and Pensioners Association will commemorate the International Day of Older Persons today for the third time since the association was established in July 2010. Yesterday SMSPA-sen
St. Maarten - When Annette Novak agreed to join her boyfriend Chris Kriebel to compete in the mixed category in the first St Maarten Extreme Duo mountain bike event, she had no idea what awaited her at the end of the race. Seconds after completing
St. Maarten - All those who work in this dedicated and skilled law enforcement agency known as the police force of Sint Maarten, are truly the guardians of the safety of our citizens and our visitors,” United People’s party-leader Theo Heyliger s
THE HAGUE - The outgoing cabinet plans to continue with the introduction of a cannabis pass for registered users nationwide, justice State Secretary Fred Teeven told reporters on Friday. There is mounting opposition to the new system from city cou
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – The Collective Prevention Services (CPS) which is part of the Ministry of Public Health, continues surveillance for Cholera, and also recommends to travelers Hispanola (Haiti, Dominican Republic), to practice basic hygienic ha
GREAT BAY (DCOMM) – The Collective Prevention Services (CPS), says that worldwide there are around 600 million people aged 60 years and over; this number will double by 2025 and will reach virtually two billion by 2050 – the vast majority of them
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – Two out of six areas that the multi-disciplinary inspection teams will be looking at when they hit the streets today for a series of controls are occupational safety and health at workplaces, and food safety. A healthy work
WILLEMSTAD – Solicitor-General Anton van der Schans is seriously concerned about Curacao’s payment arrears to the Dutch Forensic Institute NFI. Without mentioning exact figures, Van der Schans hinted that the NFI could consider not doing any more
GREAT BAY - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams wishes elderly citizens a happy International Day of Older Persons. The prime minister said in a press statement that the elderly have to be recognized for their contributions to the country and for gu
MARIGOT, St. Martin—It is not acceptable that the car rental companies are taking over the parking facilities at the Marigot waterfront, the president of the Collectivité Alain Richardson says. “I find it irresponsible and unbearable the way t
Hilbert Haar's kneejerk reaction to Leopold James letter to the FBI and our valued tourists. Never mind, that the concerns of the majority of St. Martin native people and other law-abiding citizens, about the total out of control illegal migration f
St. Maarten - Hundreds of people visited the first of what is to become the annual street fair for the Upper Princess Quarter Community Council Foundation. The event was organized to raise funds, foster unity and the spirit of cooperation and restore
St. Maarten - After a not so technical start in the first St Maarten Extreme Duo 60 kilometer mountain bike race in Sint Martin/St Maarten, team ‘Oud en Nieuw’ Sebastiaan Ton and Maarten Piek were the first male team to compete in the event and i
MARIGOT---The Collectivité of St. Martin has received a financial injection from the French Government of €18 million. President Alain Richardson said that prior to his departure to Paris there was about €100,000 in the government’s coffers wh