St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 27, 2013
St. Maarten – Vromi Minister Maurice Lake is pleased with the site visit last Friday that he took part in along with SOL Fuel provider and representatives from the Cay Bay Community Council. This site visit is a follow-up to a meeting that Mini
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 27, 2013
THE HAGUE – Minister of Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk has taken note of the recommendations to St. Maarten, Aruba and Curacao in the Trafficking in Persons Report from the American State Department, Jamila Baaziz reports on Caribisch Netwerk.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 26, 2013
St. Maarten – Vromi Minister Maurice Lake met with Millinium Pro’s Construction and has been instructed to close the trench in the vicinity of the Flanders’s residence in Suckergarden. The Ministry of Vromi states that the site needs to be r
What is it with the Cadastre that subsequent ministers feel they have to intervene? The statement we received yesterday from the Cadastre’s management sheds some light on the situation. For years now the Cadastre has kept employees on the payroll i
Vromi Minister Maurice Lake flipped when he read a story on SMN News about the imminent fall of yet another government. The story, of course, was baseless as anybody able to read between the lines knew from the get go, but it inspired Lake to call fo
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 26, 2013
KRALENDIJK – Ramonsito Booi and Burney El Hage will appear in court on November 25 to face charges of corruption, money laundering, forgery and fraud. El Hage is a former Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands Antilles and currently a Comm
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 26, 2013
The first asphalt is on the ground for the connection of the Union Road roundabout to the causeway across the lagoon. Photo Today / Hilbert HaarSt. Maarten – Contractor Volker Stevin Caribbean NV coated the roundabout that will connect Union Ro
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 26, 2013
St. Maarten – Vromi Minister Maurice Lake opened the attack this weekend on Bibi Shaw, a gossip-blogger who operates the SMN news website, after she published an unfounded story about the imminent fall of the government on Friday. The headline �
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 26, 2013
St. Maarten – The management of the Cadastre has taken notice of various articles in the newspapers, in particular Minister Lake’s proposal to appoint a change manager. In support of the minister’s statements, the management issued a statement
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 26, 2013
St. Maarten – Several shots were fired just over the border in the area of Coralita on Sunday morning, this is according to witnesses a police report stated. The witnesses also stated that shortly after they had seen a vehicle driving at high sp
VVD-parliamentarian André Bosman seems to have made St. Maarten his personal hobby. Since his Socialist Party-colleague Ronald van Raak apparently has better things to do than spouting nonsense about our country, Bosman has not missed a single oppor
The government has embarked on an integrity program, as we have heard from Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs Wescot-Williams this week. But what exactly does it entail? On the government web site, we found for starters the (government) d
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 23, 2013
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Maarten Hassink’s remark last week that achieving a zero deficit budget could be a mission impossible has triggered a reaction from VVD-parliamentarian André Bosman. Yesterday Bosman submitted written questions to
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 23, 2013
From left to right: Gebe Commercial Manager, Steve Duzanson, Gebe Communications Officer, Sjadira Gaari, Member Organizing Committee Inauguration (OCI), Mavis Albertina , OCI Chairperson, Anenda Zaandam, OCI Secretary, Emilia Thomas and Member OCI, A
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 23, 2013
WILLEMSTAD – Two out of three adults in Curacao are overweight, almost half of all adults seldom exercise and four out of ten suffer from one or more long illnesses or health problems. That is the result of a national health survey; the report was
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 23, 2013
St. Maarten – The employee of a real estate company who was arrested last week during a raid in Simpson Bay was released from pretrial custody yesterday. His attorney Cor Merx confirmed the report, but declined to provide further details. Prosec
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 23, 2013
St. Maarten - The Management of S&C Productions had to give up on their final efforts to get Sheldon Lawrence to join the star studded line up that will be performing at the Arthur Guinness concert this evening in the Festival Village. Lawrenc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 23, 2013
St. Maarten - Fatum has been rebranded along with its sister companies as the Guardian Group. Although a familiar brand to the people of these islands disappears, clients of Guardian Group will hardly notice the changes, apart from a few externals, D
Attorney-General Dick Piar’s call for legislation to protect whistleblowers has already fallen on deaf ears in St. Maarten. At least, this is how we interpret Prime Minister Wescot-Williams statement that she prefers to take things step by step and
“Pressure for change and understanding is most effective when people have access to the facts and can arm themselves with the arguments, that the concept of providing people with a comprehensive right to know about sources of pollution, development
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 22, 2013
Sources TiP-report remain a mystery St. Maarten – The Trafficking in Persons report the American State Department published in June has the full attention of the government, Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams said at yesterday’s press brief
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 22, 2013
St. Maarten – For the time being the government will not take action on Attorney-General Dick Piar’s call to establish legislation designed to protect whistleblowers. Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams said yesterday that Piar’s remark remind
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 22, 2013
[caption id="attachment_24638" align="alignleft" width="300"] Archeologist Jay Haviser holds up Amerindian stone axe heads found at various sites on the island. Many such artifacts have been lost due to unsupervised building. Photo Today / Milton Pie
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 22, 2013
St. Maarten - Just back from the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) 36th Biennial Conference that was held in Georgetown Guyana from August 4 to 9, president of the Windward Islands Teachers Union Claire Elshot says that violence against teachers is a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 22, 2013
St. Maarten – The four inmates that attacked Omar Smith Nelson in the Pointe Blanche prison on May 4 will stand trial on November 6 for attempted manslaughter. Yesterday, two suspects appeared in court, only to hear that the trial would be postpone
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 22, 2013
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams severely criticized the remarks former Finance Minister Roland Tuitt made last week during a press conference at the rehab center Turning Point. Tuitt blasted the government for the tax deal with t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 22, 2013
St. Maarten – Anthony Molanus-Galvez, the 14-year-old son of Dirk Molanus, was fatally shot during a robbery on Tuesday evening in Tualá, Colombia. Reportedly, the youngster was shot in his head and chest before he was robbed of a quad he was driv
Whether André Bosman’s initiative-law goes into effect or not does not make all that much of a difference. According to constitutional law expert Hoogers (see our front page article) it will not solve the problem it claims to address, so at the en
Now that our socialist political leaders and government have conditioned us into believing we are all helpless victims, victims of the Europeans, victims of rich and the self-reliant they have encouraged an entire culture of “collectivism, dependen
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 21, 2013
St. Maarten – Aquarius Company Ltd. and Sabra NV have both been declared bankrupt by the Court in First Instance yesterday. The court appointed attorney Norbert Hijmans as the trustee in both bankruptcies. Both companies – from Marc and Johnny
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 21, 2013
HILVERSUM – The Bosman-law will not change the influx of underprivileged Antillean youngsters into the Netherlands, constitutional law expert Gerhard Hoogers says in an interview with Jamila Baaziz of Caribisch Netwerk. “It reeks of symbolic legi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 21, 2013
St. Maarten – The former owner of the American University of the Caribbean in Cupecoy dismissed comments by former Finance Minister Roland Tuitt that have created the impression that it evaded taxes after Devry Inc. purchased the university for $23
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 21, 2013
St. Maarten – Unions that represent employees in the public sector are galvanizing their members to determine a formidable way forward in engaging government regarding the payment of the Cost of Living Adjustment (Cola) for 2011 and 2012. As fru
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 21, 2013
St. Maarten – The board of the Social Economic Council (SER) met with representatives of the St. Maarten AIDS Foundation on Thursday. As the Social Economic Council continues to provide government with advice pertaining to matters of socio-economic
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 20, 2013
St. Maarten/MIAMI – HCP/Aboard Publishing was recently honored by the Florida Magazine Association with a prestigious Charlie Award for its annual publication, Experience Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, produced in partnership with the St. Maarten Hospi
