St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 22, 2013
St. Maarten – Yesterday was the saddest day of the year with the so called Blue Monday. Dr. Cliff Arnall, a master in research methods and creator of Blue Monday, said that with the post-holiday blues, the depths of it and the cold and harsh winte
Dear editor, I took notice of the Social Economic Council advice on an affordable, sustainable and equitable AOV system. I must say that I am completely confused with their recommendation to government to reduce the 45 years to 10 years to be able
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 22, 2013
St. Maarten (DCOMM)—The Department of Communication airs a special about the Chamber of Commerce & Industry at 6 p.m. today on St. Maarten Cable TV channel 115. DCOMM interviewed the Chamber’s Executive Director Claret Connor about the objecti
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 22, 2013
St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams congratulated American President Barack Obama on his inauguration for a second term yesterday. “I would like to extend Congratulations to President Barack Obama on his second inauguration as pres
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 22, 2013
St. Maarten - The rum that American couple Mike and Thelma King invested in before their brutal murder last September in Cupecoy hit store shelves in the United States last week. The slain couple had invested heavily in a rum factory here on the isla
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten – Economic Affairs and Tourism Minister Romeo Pantophlet’s announcement that he wants four new 5-stars hotels on the island and a convention center at the harbor has met with disbelief, criticism and sarcasm from Jeff Berger, the edit
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten - 2013 will be a challenging year for the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vice President Hubert Pantophlet says, but the new executive is up to the task. Whether the entity that introduced its new executive board last Friday
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten and Curacao are working on a “durable solution” for the Central Bank. A plan of action has to be ready within the next two weeks, Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams stated in a press release that was issued this weeken
Minister Pantophlet’s plans for a convention center at the harbor is not well-received everywhere, as our front page article shows. Maybe the minister will come up with a decent explanation for this initiative, and with data that support the feasib
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
On Wednesday January 16, some 6 months after the infamous Carnival-coup the NA/DP/I3 - Government coalition program was presented to the public. Interestingly, or perhaps cynically, this long-awaited document carried the name Working for the People-p
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle” - Winston Churchill – The beauty of owning an enterprise or corporation is in the ability to pas
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten – “I was pleased to donate a collection of newspaper articles, framed posters and other memorabilia to our public library from the first constitutional referendum held on October 14, 1994 and the second referendum held on June 23 2000
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten – Customer service on the Friendly Island sustained a black eye when St. Maarten weekly news reported about the experience of a tourist who had bought an iPhone in St. Maarten. “He paid $1,000 in cash for it and when he got home it di
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten - Season passes for Carnival 2013 will go on sale on February 2 for $170. Sponsored by UTS/Chippie, the St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation SCDF finalized details surrounding the passes over the weekend. The passes have become “
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation SCDF and the Festivités Carnavalesques de Saint-Martin (FCDSM) will host the Unity Jump-Up this upcoming Saturday. The annual event, which takes Carnival lovers on a trek involving both s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten -The discussion about employment agencies remains alive. The Ministry of Labor is expected later this year to table several pieces of legislation that are expected to further regulate the labor sector. Unions contend that employment age
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten is expected to receive 3 percent fewer stay-over tourists from the North American region in the period until March, the Department of Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunication writes in a special edition of its
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten – Timeshare owners at the Simpson Bay Resort and Marina are complaining about the high additional maintenance fees the resort is charging them to fund a massive renovation plan. Readers of the online newsletter St. Maarten Weekly News v
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten – A group of twenty-two participants followed a course last week about investigation sex crimes. The Dutch Forensic Institute NFI in collaboration with Dutch forensic experts gave the training. Among the participants were detectives, pr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten - "We were told in the beginning that Philipsburg is camera ready, with the renovations and everything is in place. But then we were stuck with legislation and who is going to monitor. Then where is it going to be? We did not expect all t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams met with Dutch justice experts Professor Paul Vegter and Juan de Lange for talks about progress with the improvements at the Pointe Blanche prison and the police cells. Vegter and de Lange followed
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
St. Maarten - Circo Magik, the youth circus theater group from Curacao, will arrive on February 8 in Sint Maarten to perform the Chinese legend Silk on the February 11 and 12 in the Cultural Center on Back Street. The public will enjoy a whirling pre
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 21, 2013
ORANJESTAD – No expensive external consultants for the AVP-faction in the Aruban parliament, but an eager university student. AVP-MP Juan David Yrausquin honored student Leanne Geerman for helping out with the country’s annual accounts. Geerman
About two months ago I went to the Immigration Office where I left some information concerning illegal workers in restaurants in the Maho area and particularly at Granduca, where several workers have not been paid for several months. They are without
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2013
St. Maarten – The letter from Dutch Ambassador Fons Stoelinga to former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte in Curacao that contains references to alleged ties between Francesco Corallo and the Sicilian mafia has had dire consequences for the owner of th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2013
St. Maarten – The board for financial Supervision Cft subtly points out in its advice about the 2013 draft budget that it has options to advise the Kingdom Council of Ministers to give St Maarten an instruction to put its budget in order. The advi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2013
St. Maarten – The mobile unit of the Immigration and Naturalization service IND will step up controls at companies in the search for employees without work permits. Per violation of the law, employers may expect a 5,000 guilders fine. Dur
The immigration department is opening the hunt for illegal employees and warns employers that they will be hit with 5,000-guilder fines for each violation. The actions seem to target especially the hospitality industry since the control unit perceive
The presentation by the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) in a Central Committee came across as a salesman’s journey designed to sign up new clients. We hear that National Alliance MP Lloyd Richardson took the initiative for the presentat
The United People’s party wants to subject changes to the electoral law to a referendum, we understand from a press statement issued by MP Gracita Arrindell. It is a pity that so far we have not heard a lot about which changes politicians have in
The publications from the board for financial supervision Cft are practically always more revealing than the press conferences of our finance minister about the same topic: the budget. While Minister Tuitt shed some light on the findings of the Cft
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2013
St. Maarten - The United People’s (UP) parliamentary faction met with attorney and former Lt. Governor Ralph Richardson on Thursday morning to discuss possible changes to the existing electoral law. “We have a Parliament of 15 members associate
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2013
St. Maarten – Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Minister Ronald Plasterk will arrive on Tuesday in St. Maarten where he will meet with Governor drs. Eugène Holiday, Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and members of her cabinet. Plasterk ends hi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2013
St. Maarten - A massive search was conducted in the Cay Bay area by the police on Wednesday morning for missing Jamaican Annmarie Lynch. But according to Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos, it yielded no results. Lynch, a salad chef of Pineapple Pete Restaura
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2013
St. Maarten - The Windward Islands Civil Servants Union/Private Sector Union (Wicsu/PSU) wants the government to revise its statement or explain why it is in negotiations to set up an airline here when St. Maarten already owns 92 percent of Winair.
