St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten / WOERDEN – Economic Affairs Minister Romeo Pantophlet and Harbor Group of companies CEO Mark Mingo visited the head quarters of Volker Stevin and Hollandia in the Netherlands to discuss the progress of the causeway construction and fut
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten – Law enforcement officers started a 40-hour course yesterday at the Divi Little Bay Resort that focuses on crime prevention through environmental design. Art Hushen, President of the American National Institute for Crime Prevention
The initiative by the Justice Ministry to organize a training about crime prevention through environmental design is a positive one that should not end after the 40-hour training for law enforcement officers is completed. From what we have seen, t
We have written several times about the modern slavery that is practices right under our noses in St. Maarten. It happens in places like the Border Bar, whose owner has been locked up 6 years for human trafficking and for exploiting women at his br
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten - Chief executive officer of Tempo Networks, Fredrick Morton Jr. said that his focus was not on quantity but quality. Morton Jr. was speaking on Sunday night during the launch of his network’s 7th anniversary celebrations. For the first
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten – For the second time in a short period of time the only traffic lights at the Dutch side, at the end of the Walter Nisbeth Road broke down. This malfunction created chaotic scenes on the intersection. It is one of the busiest inters
It’s kinda weird to live in a society where many young readers may have never heard of the Rolling Stones. Arguably the best ever rock band on earth, the Stones are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. They will do a couple of concerts to light
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
WILLEMSTAD —In a televised farewell speech, outgoing Governor Frits Goedgedrag said that his departure produced mixed feelings; a smile and a tear. A tear, because he resigned from a responsibility which he experienced as the honor of his life.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten - The international day for awareness of violence against women is commemorated until December 16, Peridot Foundation founder Gracita Arrindell said in a press release issued on Sunday when the commemoration started. “The date of N
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams attended the Safe Haven benefit concert at Prive Nightclub Sunday evening joining the community in celebrating International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women and supporting Safe Haven. Th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
GREAT BAY - The Rotary Club of Saint. Martin Sunrise joins Rotary International today to help raise awareness for polio eradication by joining the world's biggest commercial. Members are donating their Facebook profile “this Close” picture for th
St. Maarten News, St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten – Conray Thomas (23) died of a sudden heart attack, while playing a basketball game Saturday evening during the Church Basketball games at the Melford Hazel Sports complex in Sucker Garden. Thomas fell suddenly on the floor during th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association SHTA recently hosted a General Managers Retreat at the Divi Little Bay Beach Resort under the theme “Energy, Economy and the future of Country St. Maarten.” The keynote address on e
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – The Office of the Ombudsman has two community information sessions planned this week - today at the library in Philipsburg and on Thursday in the Dutch Quarter Community Center. Both sessions begin at 7.30 p.m. and are schedul
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten - Linguist Dr. Rhoda Arrindell has co-authored two chapters in a new book of scientific studies about how various historically new Caribbean, Pacific, and Houma-French languages originated. The Amsterdam-based John Benjamins Publishing
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten - From Yvette’s Kitchen To Your Table – A Treasury of St. Martin’s Traditional & Contemporary Cuisine by Yvette Hyman is back in bookstores. This is the third printing of the popular cookbook in less than two years since it was
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten – The vice consul of the United States of America will be in St. Maarten for services to American citizens on December 5 and 6. Due to unforeseen circumstances the scheduled visit to Saba has been cancelled. On Wednesday December 5 t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten – Minister of Education Silveria Jacobs opened the Rights of the Child sports day last Saturday at the Alberic Richards Stadium in Sandy Ground. Children from both the Dutch and French side participated in the all-day event. In addit
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on November 27, 2012
St. Maarten – Vromi-minister William Marlin confidently took the controls of a windward roads excavator yesterday afternoon for the symbolic demolition of the Ebenezer aeration tank next to the Scott property in St. Peters, located behind the Sol g
