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Predictably, the parliament voted yesterday unanimously in favor of a motion against André Bosman’s initiative law to restrict the admission of citizens from St. Maarten, Curacao and Aruba to the Netherlands. While Members of Parliament cried f
Dear editor, Let’s see if people in St. Martin are mature and can pass with flying colors. I the Patriot would be a hypocrite if I disagreed with Bosman. He is simply fighting to make sure his Dutch Caucasian identity is protected; it has nothin
St. Maarten – The financial supervisor Cft has advised the Kingdom Council of Ministers to give St. Maarten an instruction “to accomplish an adopted 2013 budget that complies with the standards of the Kingdom Act.” In a press release, the Cf
St. Maarten – Slavery, the Second World War, Martin Luther King, discrimination – all these topics rolled around yesterday morning when the parliament discussed the Bosman initiative-law to limit the access of citizens from St. Maarten, Curacao a
THE HAGUE - Kingdom Affairs Minister Ronald Plasterk has no doubts about the integrity of Wilbert Stolte, the Kingdom Representative in Bonaire. According to a recent publication in NRC Handelsblad the political unrest on the island began after St
St. Maarten - Hans Wesselink (66) will be, for the next six months, the interim Chief Public Prosecutor for St. Maarten. Wesselink succeeds Hans Mos who returned to the Netherlands on August 1. Wesselink arrived on Sint Maarten with his wife on Fr
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has outlined plans to launch two pilot projects that will address areas where St. Maarten is lacking based on the ‘Millennium Development Goal Report for St. Maarten’. The prime minister exp
St. Maarten AY- Wifol president Theophilus Thompson is registering concern over what he calls a “very serious problem within the labor market.” He believes that many businesses are now patterning themselves after the fiasco involving Pelican Reso