The trial of a Venezuelan suspect who was found in August of last year with $690,000 in cash in a home he leased on St. Maarten triggers many questions. The court postponed the trial yesterday amid a flurry of arguments and counter arguments. One
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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St. Maarten – The remarkable story of Fernando Jose M.-M. continued in the Court in First Instance yesterday with more tantalizing details about the way he ended up with $690,000 in cash, partly stashed in his washing machine. The prosecution charg
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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St. Maarten - All government subsidized schools on St. Maarten will soon have a digital Student Tracking System to record and manage the data of all their students and track their development and progress from the time they are registered until the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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St. Maarten - Unionized workers at the Princess Juliana International Airport were startled to find that changes were being effected to their job descriptions and even salary structures earlier this month, without consultation. The workers made known
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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St. Maarten – The University of St. Maarten (USM) and the University of the Netherlands Antilles (Una) signed a collaboration agreement yesterday at the A.C. Wathey Legislative Hall. This agreement is an extension of an already existing one from
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
Comments Off on Court punishes two men for years of electricity theft – Community service for supermarket owners
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced supermarket owners Roberto and Johnny Sang yesterday both to a 1-year suspended prison sentence with 2 years of probation for electricity theft. Roberto Sang has to do 180 hours of community servi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten branch of the Sulvaran and Peterson law firm announced in a press release that it has added a new lawyer at its offices in Pointe Blanche. mr. Dagmar Daal started practicing at the law firm per the first of February. She i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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St. Maarten – The Court in first Instance sentence Tyronne Dilon Wilson to a 36-month prison sentence with 3 years of probation. Of the sentence 27 months are suspended, though the court added a truckload of special conditions to the sentence. O
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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St. Maarten – The Windward Islands Civil Servants Union and the Private Sector Union (Wicsu/PSU) is urging parliamentarians and ministers to champion the cause of all long serving civil servants who have served faithfully. The union said that it ha
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 28, 2013
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St. Maarten – The Nature Foundation and the Simpson Bay Lagoon Authority (SLAC) will be partnering with RS Watertech Solutions to install remote water quality testing devices at various points in the Simpson Bay Lagoon and Great Bay. Recently the N
Editorial, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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The story about the departure of PSS managing director Denicio Richardson obviously stinks to high heaven and Members of Parliament have picked upon this. They demand proper compensation for a young St. Maartener who was placed in an impossible si
St. Maarten News, St. Maarten Sports - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten - In a match made in music and yacht racing heaven, race officials for the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta have announced some very special guests will attend this year's Gill Commodore's Cup, the kick-off, tune-up event that takes place tom
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten – This Friday the 33rd edition of the Heineken Regatta is going to start with again a high number of entrees. “Last year we had around 187 to 190 entries, we were hoping to get around 225 entrees for this year,” Michele Korteweg,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten – Justice for former managing director Denicio Richardson at Postal Services St. Maarten PSS and serious questions and even a call for an investigation into the involvement of the controller at the Ministry of Tourism and Economic Affai
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten - An estimated five day care centers are contemplating closure in wake of national regulations they see as being unfairly imposed. While declining to identify the centers specifically, chairman of the St. Maarten United Non-governmental F
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten - “What is good for the goose is good for the gander,” president of the Windward Islands Teachers Union Claire Elshot said yesterday, as she echoed the calls made on Monday by social organizations jointly for attention to place on the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten – With the "Magic Wedding Cake" book the Beyond Writing Foundation is publishing its eighth book. “This time it is a hard cover, full colored children book as an ode to monuments and especially to ‘The Wedding Cake’, the National
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten – Insurance Company Ennia announced its sponsorship for the competitors from St. Maarten in the mathematic A-lympiad in the Netherlands on March 8 and 9. “It is with great joy that we contribute to this particular project; the support
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 27, 2013
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St. Maarten – “A special report published in the latest issue of the Pan American Journal of Public Health under the heading “Legislation on violence against women: overview of key components,” says despite worldwide efforts by public health
Curacao’s Prime Minister Daniel Hodge had about enough of the troubles with the Central Bank for Curacao and St. Maarten and he is seriously considering throwing in the towel. It is not the people, it is the structure, Hodge said yesterday. That
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 26, 2013
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St. Maarten —The Ministry of Vromi, in accordance with article 4 of the National Ordinance Announcement and Enactment (A.B. 2010, GT no. 21), stated the following in a press release yesterday; “The Ministry of Vromi’s Department of Permits i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 26, 2013
St. Maarten –After the Health Inspectorate was alerted about tainted European food products with traces of horse meat, the Inspectorate carried out local inquiries with food importers to find out if any of the products are available for sale on loc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 26, 2013
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GREAT BAY- The St. Maarten Anti-Poverty Platform and organizations falling under the St. Maarten United Non-governmental Federation (SUNFED) umbrella, yesterday demanded that the island’s elected representatives use the opportunity presented at the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 26, 2013
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St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – Heineken is not involved in that many sports as a sponsor, but the company has been a staunch supporter of St. Maarten’s Heineken Regatta for more than 25 years. “This event is highly regarded, also among Heinek
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 26, 2013
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St. Maarten – Curacao’s Prime Minister Daniel Hodge is pushing for a split of the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten during his visit to The Hague this week. The Antilliaans Dagblad reported yesterday morning that Hodge is dissatisfied with
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten – One of Dick Schoof’s last actions as Director-General Police at the Dutch Justice Ministry was a visit to Justice Minister Roland Duncan in St. Maarten. Come Friday, Schoof will begin in his new job as the national coordinator for s
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten – King Willem Alexander and Queen Máxima will visit the Caribbean part of the Kingdom in November. It will be the second royal visit to St. Maarten within two years. While there is no definite date yet, speculations are that the royal
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
Comments Off on System near MAC-school effective today – New parking designed to alleviate traffic woes
St. Maarten - In an attempt to alleviate the extremely heavy traffic flow on the road leading to and from the Methodist Agogic School in Betty’s Estate, a new area has been reserved for school busses and parents to park as of today. With so many
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten - The driver of a private car and his female passenger are now counting their losses after an overloaded truck rolled back on the car early on Saturday morning near the entrance of Golden Barrell Cactus Drive in Defiance. The accident
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten – “We are monumentally unimpressed with St. Maarten’s proposed timeshare owner consumer protection legislation and we will make that known to the government in St. Maarten,” Jeff Berger wrote in his electronic newsletter St. Maart
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
St. Maarten – Disgruntled and disappointed timeshare owners are getting rid of their properties in St. Maarten at rock bottom prices, the electronic newsletter St. Maarten’s Weekly News reported this weekend. There is an upside, the newsletter st
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten – Last Thursday 108 people took the pledge of allegiance before Governor Eugene Holiday during a naturalization ceremony at the Westin Dawn Beach Resort and Spa. The pledge of allegiance, as being expressed in either taking an oath or m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten – The Ministry of Vromi held its second public meeting about the hillside conservation areas on Thursday evening at the university – ten months after the first meeting in April of last year. Among the new ideas are a 150,000 square me
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan suffered another defeat in court in the dispute over his refusal to appoint police officer Carlyle Rogers as head of the district team Simpson Bay. The minister dismissed Rogers a couple of months ago as
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on February 25, 2013
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St. Maarten – A property owner in Guana Bay is currently preparing to erect a wall in a spot that violates the country’s beach policy. Complaints to the inspection department at the Vromi-Ministry did not solve the situation, because inspectors f
