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St. Maarten – The Telegraaf, the largest daily with a circulation of around 500,000 copies, labeled St. Maarten yesterday as a “corruption-island” in the headline above a story by Bart Olmer and Alex de Vries about the proposed cuts in the Coas
THE HAGUE – Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Minister Plasterk says that budget cuts at the Public Prosecutor’s office, the police and the National Detective Agency (Landsrecherche) are matter for the autonomous country St. Maarten. The Ministe
St. Maarten – Members of Parliament in St. Maarten receive a remuneration that is approximately 30 percent higher than what their colleagues in Aruba and Curacao get. Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Minister Ronald Plasterk writes this in answer
St. Maarten - An abuse of the business license procedure by foreign nationals has prompted Economic Affairs Minister Romeo Pantophlet to place more than two dozen requests on hold as the government seeks a way to block the practice. Pantophlet told P
St. Maarten – Solicitor-General Taco Stein demanded 12 months imprisonment on appeal against Norvin Adelbert W. for firearm possession. Of the demand, 6 months are conditional. The defendant was stopped by a police patrol on August 1 of last yea
St. Maarten - Telecommunications Minister Romeo Pantophlet is currently studying a new proposal that would see industry concessionaires paying a flat fee for the spectrum supervised by Bureau Telecommunication and Post (BTP) instead of paying for e
The last passenger from the Suzuki Van is rushed to a waiting ambulance after he was extracted from his vehicle.St. Maarten - The ‘Jaws of Life’ had to be used to extract the driver whose car collided head on with a vehicle that was travelling in
St. Maarten - It did not appear to be a slip of the tongue when Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs Romeo Pantophlet told Parliament’s Central Committee that he is opposed to additional taxes being placed on the alcohol and tobacco industry. T