This is part 2 of the strengths and weaknesses chapter from Transparency International’s integrity assessment of Curacao. Part 2 appeared in our Thursday edition and part 3 will appear tomorrow. In the Curaçao National Integrity System, party dis
The call for making October 10 a national holiday has some merit. St. Maarten has more with the date it obtained autonomy in the Kingdom than with the meaningless Kingdom Day on December 15. Yet the latter date is a day off, and so far October 10 is
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 11, 2013
St. Maarten – “It feels as if the police force is constantly taking exams from a rigid teacher,” Chief Commissioner Peter de Witte said in his address yesterday during the celebration of the third anniversary of the force as an independent enti
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 11, 2013
St. Maarten – Two years ago, during the parliament’s commemoration of its first anniversary as an autonomous country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands the atmosphere was subdued. “It is like a funeral in here,” Franklin Meyers, at the time Mi
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St. Maarten – A 38-year-old mother who stood trial in June for complicity to sexual assault on two of her daughters by two of her sons received a significantly lower sentence yesterday than the prosecution had demanded. In June, the prosecution
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St. Maarten – “Taloula Mangos will again host the best breakfast on St. Maarten’s Day,” Glenville Blake, president of Peace is Foundation, said yesterday at Taloula Mango restaurant at the Sint Rose Arcade on the Boardwalk. “And this is the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on October 11, 2013
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams received an update from the Maho Group regarding the Maho Group, including Sonesta Maho and Sonesta Great Bay. Besides the prime minister the meeting was attended by Armando Pizzuti, Vice President
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St. Maarten – The Immigration and Border Protection Service (IBP) will be launching its new brand within the coming months. The organization is no longer the Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND). The brand launch will delve deeper into t
