St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
St. Maarten - Justice Minister Roland Duncan says that he is taking a hard line against law enforcement officials, such as customs, immigration and police, who use unwarranted excessive force or engage in police brutality. Speaking during Wednesda
"Further to the article in November 29th's news, the St Maarten Marine Trades Association would like to note the raids in the prison and all the contra-band imported through the open window in the Simpson Bay holding cells. This open access to the co
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten - Terms of reference for contractors to bid on the completion of several aspects of the Government Administration Building, aka the white elephant with the green hat, will be announced soon. Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, on Wednes
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – “The focus has to be on patient care.” Mental Health Foundation Director Eileen Healy does not want to create another healthcare controversy. Instead she told us about the things that do work in the cooperation
Mr. Editor, Please allow me some space in your newspaper to address two important troubling trends that we need to get away from in today's society. As a St. Maartener, I am very concerned about how we have changed from generation to generation. W
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten- Realizing the necessity for advanced technology at the primary level, Member of Parliament Frans Richardson made a timely gesture by donating four computers and a color printer to the Ruby Labega school yesterday. While the donation m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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Government has established a vending policy, clearly indicating where citizens can do vending or not. During the last six months we have been building and renting tiki huts to people who have or who applied for a vending or stationary license. The id
Our photographer Milton Pieters went to the Sparrow show for the elderly on Wednesday evening on the pier, but he never got to take any pictures. When Pieters arrived, Tempo CEO Frederick Morton was waiting for him. Not to greet him, but to point
With all the controversies that surround our healthcare institutions one would be tempted to think that there is better care to be had in North Korea. But the reality is a tad different: in spite of all the court cases, in spite of all the mudslin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten – Today Laugh out Loud Productions (LOL) will introduce its first annual ‘So you think you can sing’ competition. This event will be a platform for singers from seven secondary schools to show their singing talent to the crowd. S
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten – Yesterday the St. Maarten Marine Trades Association (SMMTA) gave a reaction regarding the haul of contra-band that was found in the Simpson Bay prison cells on Wednesday morning. "Further to the article in November 29th's news, the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten -The restructuring of government-owned company TelEm was described as “A long and tedious process,” by Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, but made successful because of the cooperation between union representatives and the manageme
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten – The Division Educational Innovation (DEI) presented the education digest for the school year 2010/2011 to the Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Silveria Jacobs last Wednesday. The education digest provides general da
Opinion - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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As a child I remember Miss Selma, as we all called her, as a tall soft spoken God fearing individual. Putting her in her final resting place after 91 years of a very active life had to be tough on her surviving children, who traveled from the USA
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten – The contract for the repair of the runway at the Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) was signed between the airport’s Operating Company NV and the joint venture, Janssen de Jong Caribbean BV, NV Arubaanse Wegenbouw Maatsch
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, in collaboration with the HIV/ Aids Program team will host a Zumba me red session in front of the Government Administration Building at 7.15 p.m. The special zumba session will be held to comme
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten, (DCOMM) –Minister Silveria Jacobs attended the book launch of Bloodline – A family Search by Loeki Morales at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library on Wednesday. In addition to the book launch an audio book of the same title with voice
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten – The Police Department is asking for assistance in the ongoing murder investigation of Gaston A. Gumbs. Gumbs’ body was found on November 10th at approximately 11 p.m. in Hope Estate. The investigating-team is asking if anyone may h
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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St. Maarten – As part of the ‘Get Checked’ campaign of the ministry of health, every parent's concern this holiday season should be to make sure that the presents you buy for your child this year is safe, by checking the safety information of t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 30, 2012
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GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) has put out a call to the parents of potential contestants for the junior and teen carnival queen pageants for Carnival 2013. Girls for the junior pageants should be 7 to 12 years
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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GREAT BAY – For the third time in a month a Surinamese drugs courier stood trial in the Court in First Instance yesterday. On October 25, the court sentenced Furgin Pengel to 14 months imprisonment and Jemmi Felter to 12 months. Compared to these s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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St. Maarten -Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams wants a review of the island’s constitution that would result in changes to the electoral laws and stability in government. She made these remarks yesterday “For St. Maarten we are a young coun
For the third time in a month a drugs courier from Suriname stood in front of the judge in the Court in First Instance. The man had swallowed almost a kilo of pure cocaine in so-called bolitas. This is extremely dangerous for the courier, but a more
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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St. Maarten – The money laundering case against the Standard Trust Company, its directors and its bookkeeper fell apart yesterday when the Common Court of Justice acquitted all defendants of this charge due to procedural violations during the inves
When Marcel Loor was arrested in the summer of 2007, and the raid at the offices of Standard Trust soon followed, the island was rife with stories about money laundering, bribery and what have you. Today it still is. In the meantime, Marcel Loor and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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St. Maarten - The Finance Ministry is considering some interesting proposals to bring a 29 million guilders deficit by now and December to balance the budget. Apart from the so called sin tax on alcohol and tobacco that Finance Minister Roland Tuitt
People get very creative when they have nothing to do, Justice Minister Roland Duncan said yesterday. Unfortunately, the minister was not referring to the high number of unemployed youngsters in St. Maarten but to inmates in the House of Detention in
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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St. Maarten - The Commander of the Voluntary Corps of Sint Maarten (VKS) announced in a brief press release that the VKS will have a bivouac that starts tomorrow and ends on Sunday. The bivouac is part of the regular VKS training schedule. The biv
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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GREAT BAY- St. Maarten has until May 13 to respond and submit an action plan on how it will comply with 49 recommendations that have been proposed by the Financial Action Task Force and the United Nations Security Council. The island received a negat
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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St. Maarten - The male and female number ranked wheelchair lawn tennis players Stephane Houdet from France and Esther Vergeer from the Netherlands have both advanced to the singles finals in the first Breaking Barriers tournament. In their respect
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
Comments Off on St. Maarten gets weak review on policies to combat money laundering
GREAT BAY- St. Maarten has until May 13 to respond and submit an action plan on how it will comply with 49 recommendations that have been proposed by the Financial Action Task Force and the United Nations Security Council. The island received a negat
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
Comments Off on St. Maarten Government approves integrity vision, Aids strategic plan and foreign affairs commission
St. Maarten - The Council of Ministers (CoM) recently approved several initiatives that were reported on by Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams yesterday. Based on a proposal to consider developments that are occurring on the regional and interna
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
Comments Off on Twelve candidates for St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce board
St. Maarten – Twelve candidates were nominated for the three vacancies on the Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors: five for the large business sector and seven for the small business sector. For the large business sector, there are two vacan
St. Maarten News, St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
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St. Maarten - Each of the four teams vying for the championship title in the 2012 Double A Baseball Championship will be seeking record victories when the best of five series begins at the John Cooper/Jose Lake Sr Ballpark starting tonight at 8 p.m.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 29, 2012
Comments Off on Prosecution appeals four verdicts in Vesuvius-case
St. Maarten –Prosecutor Gonda van der Wulp announced yesterday that her office will appeal the verdicts against Erno Labega Jr., Daniel Thomas, Charles Fleming and Andrew Davis who were all convicted on November 15 as members of a criminal organi
