St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
St. Maarten –The structure erected on the Sucker Garden road by Steve Brown of Papas Car Rental remains a bone of contention for Rosendo Antonio Agata who claims that the government granted him the right of long lease for the land Brown is building
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) unveiled a new website yesterday, one day after the operational anniversary of the hospital. The new website is designed to provide internet users with up to date information about the Medical Ce
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
St. Maarten – Early yesterday morning Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams attended the flag hoisting ceremony commemorating Aruba Day at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Zager’s Gut. Despite a rainy morning the prime minister, joined by Ac
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
St. Maarten - The board of the Soualiga Social Movement (SSM) congratulated the residents of Cay Hill for the arrival of their own Community Council. “The process that started in early January has finally resulted in the community of Cay Hill hav
The country is still coming to terms with the reports that stem from the Bada Bing bribery tape. In the meantime, this newspaper has outlined the details of the ugly fight between Justice Minister Duncan’s Hypnotic and the license-holder of the Sea
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan was interviewed as a witness in the Bada Bing bribery scandal on Friday for more than four-and-a-half hours by the head of the National Detective Agency (Landsrecherche) Ademar Doran, a senior detective
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
The Hypnotic files part 4: The end of the road When Richbenzwan N.V. signed a 10-year management contract with Hypnotic Hotel and Entertainment back in 2009 for the management of the Seaman’s Club brothel in Sucker Garden it soon found itself in o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
St. Maarten – Acting Head of the Department of Inspections Martha Thewet said yesterday that her department and other relevant government agencies met last Friday at the Government Administration Building with representatives from entertainment est
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
St. Maarten – “I would like to take this opportunity to commend all those public and private sector agencies that were involved in Operation Carnival Dream,” United People (UP) Party interim faction leader Sylvia Meyers said in a press release
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Academy took the two top places of the Sunrise Rotoract Speech Competition which was held at the University of St. Martin on Saturday evening. Academy student Manaar Mohammed received the rotating plaque for the schoo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 19, 2013
St. Maarten – The United People’s (UP) faction is concerned about the welfare of approximately 70 A-Team Security Officers and approximately 150-200 family members, the party said in a statement. According to media reports, the employer did not
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 15, 2013
The Carnival Dream in the harbor of Philipsburg yesterday afternoon. Photo Today/Milton PietersSt. Maarten – The Carnival Dream cruise ship, as part of the Carnival Cruise Line, remained docked at the harbor of Philipsburg due to technical issu
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 15, 2013
St. Maarten – The financial supervisor Cft gave the government of St. Maarten already in august 2011 a positive advise for a 48 million guilders loan to buy developer RGM out of the new government administration building on Pond Island. It also tol
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 15, 2013
The Hypnotic files part 3: The court case When Richbenzwan N.V. signed a 10-year management contract with Hypnotic Hotel and Entertainment back in 2009 for the management of the Seaman’s Club brothel in Sucker Garden it soon found itself in one
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 15, 2013
St. Maarten – Of the 25 million guilders the government had to cut from its draft 2013 budget, 18.5 million has been realized, financial supervisor Cft writes in its positive advice with the adjusted draft budget. This brings the balanced draft bud
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 15, 2013
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Nordica Cliantha Reed yesterday to a 6-month conditional prison sentence, 100 hours of community service and repayment of more than $4,600 to the victim of a credit card fraud. With the sentenc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 15, 2013
St. Maarten – The man who is thought to be responsible for the death of a man called Anselm on April 30, 2011, briefly appeared in the Court in First Instance yesterday, only to see his case postponed until May 29 because he did not have an attorne
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 15, 2013
Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams together with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Jacobs revealing the solar panels at the library yesterday afternoon.St. Maarten –Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams joined Deputy Prime Minister William Marlin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
When Richbenzwan N.V. signed a 10-year management contract with Hypnotic Hotel and entertainment back in 2009 for the management of the Seaman’s Club brothel in Sucker Garden it soon found itself in one conflict after the other. Two court cases lat
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
St. Maarten – Prosecutor Georges van den Eshof demanded prison sentences of 40 and 36 months in the Court in First Instance yesterday against two brothers for sexually abusing their two sisters of 10 and 3 years old. Judge Tamara Tijhuis will prono
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Nature Foundation recently carried out a wide scale assesment of the threats to the native Sea Turtle population which mostly nests at Guana Bay Beach. Over the last two months there have been various activities that
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
St. Maarten – Vice Chairman of the Council of State, Piet Hein Donner, will a visit to St. Maarten next week Thursday, where he will meet with Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, Governor Eugène Holiday and President of Parliament Rodolphe Sam
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
St. Maarten – “The new twist that has been given to the entire matter; that it involves the leader of another political party Theo Heyliger adds a totally new dimension to it and it is starting to look now like a James Bond movie,” the Deputy P
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
St. Maarten – Reacting to the concerns of the Windward Islands Teachers Union (Witu) that was published in yesterday's edition on violence against teachers, Education Minister Silveria Jacobs has reported that her ministry is working on a disciplin
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
St. Maarten – The children Bernardo Oswaldo Hyman used to drive to school every morning in his bus will have to look for another means of transport for the time being. The Court in First Instance sentenced the 30-year-old school bus driver yesterda
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 14, 2013
St. Maarten – Alick Elrose Marcelle and Jofelder Rafael Emmanuel have something to think about after the Court in First Instance sentenced them to 24 and 22 months of imprisonment respectively. Of each sentence 6 months are suspended; the court imp
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
Minister Roland Duncan personally signed the management contract with Richbenzwan. Photo DCOMMWhen Richbenzwan N.V. signed a 10-year management contract with Hypnotic Hotel and Entertainment back in 2009 for the management of the Seaman’s Club
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
The entrance to the Seaman’s Club in Sucker Garden. Photo Today / Hilbert HaarSt. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – In the sixties of the last century a Japanese fishing company settled down in St. Maarten. It brought a lot of Japanese fishermen t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
St. Maarten – Readers who buy their newspaper on the way out of St. Peters in the morning are requested to have their money ready when they stop at one of our street vendors. The request comes from community police officer Felix Richards who has be
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
The Dutch news program EenVandaag depicted yesterday Justice Minister Roland Duncan this way with strip club Bada Bing in the background. Photo Screenshot EenVandaag.St. Maarten – The Patrick Illidge bribery scandal is spreading like wildfire throu
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
St. Maarten – Businessman Julian Rollocks is outraged about the lackluster response from Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and parliamentarians to the Patrick Illidge bribery scandal. “St. Maarten is presently dealing with a scandal of hist
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
[caption id="attachment_21827" align="alignleft" width="250"] Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams receives the report, regarding the possibilities of stepping out of the monetary union, from Chairman of the SER, Rene Richardson.[/caption]St. Maarten
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
St. Maarten - Local resident Carl Duinkerk runs the Mango Green Energy (MGE) Project that currently operates out of the Sunfed building on Back Street. He has devoted his life savings and has lost a lot of immovable property in his pursuit of renewab
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
The Telegraaf depicted St. Maarten yesterday as a Mafia state. Photo Telegraaf / PluisSt. Maarten – Readers did not disappoint the editors of the Telegraaf with their answers to the question of the day: The Netherlands has to sever ties with St
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2013
St. Maarten – The Wifol union is expected to meet with Labor Minister Cornelius de Weever from 2 p.m. today on the plight of workers of the former Pelican Resort. Union President Theophilus Thompson said that Wifol had made a commitment to the work
