St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 11, 2013
Curacao – Law enforcement officers raided the house of former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte early on Monday morning. At the same time, a raid took place at the headquarters of Schotte’s party MFK – Movementu Futuro Kòrsou. Speculation was runn
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 11, 2013
St. Maarten – The National Intelligence Service VDSM was never involved in the Vesuvius investigation, as the Telegraaf suggested on Saturday in a story about VDSN-chief James Richardson. “That seems to me to be a tall story,” Bart den Hartigh,
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 11, 2013
St. Maarten – Binkie van Es, a fervent birdwatcher and photographer, is the initiator of a plan to save Little Bay Pond and to create an eco-friendly attraction on the site that will leave the rich birdlife in the pond untouched. “We are putting
We have been following with keen attention the 2014 budget discussions and have suggested some weeks ago that the 2014 draft budget after sending it to the Parliament of St. Maarten should be placed on the government webpage. This would allow the ent
Politicians have talked St. Maarten Day after St. Maarten Day about cooperation with the French side of the island, but very little ever came of it. This has caused some politicians to avoid that particular celebration altogether: always the same spe
The situation at the Justice Ministry requires some attention from our decision makers when they tackle the 2014 budget. We learned yesterday that the justice budget would be the subject of serious cuts. In other words, less money for law enforcement
The university was last Thursday morning the stage where students from Milton Peters College and St. Dominic High School received a dose of inspiration for starting their higher education right at home, at the University of St. Martin on Pond Island.
At the end of November, Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson gave a state of affairs report to the parliament in connection with crime and the challenges faced by our law enforcement agencies. Due to budget constraints, the minister stated that th
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 11, 2013
St. Maarten – Students of Milton Peters College and St. Dominic High School had an inspiring morning at the University of St. Martin yesterday that encouraged them to take the first steps into higher education at home. Students of the Hospitality a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 11, 2013
St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – The dean of the Bar Association, attorney Remco Stomp, sent a letter to attorney Cor Merx on Tuesday in which he expresses his anger over emails Merx sent to members of the Bar and to local authorities. “I request
Governor Eugene Holiday has launched the integrity commission he was ordered to by the Kingdom Decree of September 30. The governor has appointed the committee to spearhead the investigation and it’s filled with men of impeccable credentials, chair
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 5, 2013
Energizer allegedly ducked $3.2 million in wage and turnover tax and social premiums St. Maarten – “Your honor, I am a contractor, not an administrator,” said Silvio Jan M., owner of Energizer NV a company that was involved as a subcontracto
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 5, 2013
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Romero Clifton David to 4 years imprisonment for attempted manslaughter on his girlfriend on July 6, firearm and ammunition possession and for theft with the use of violence against his girlfriend
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 5, 2013
St. Maarten - Governor Eugene Holiday installed a steering committee yesterday to advise him on, and oversee, the execution of an independent inquiry into the integrity and proper functioning of the St. Maarten government under the rule of law. The g
The bare minimum, as calculated by independent MP Romain Laville, is somewhere around 2,000 guilders a month. Taking this number as our measuring stick, we arrive at an hourly minimum wage of 11.53 guilders, or $6.45. As the table on this page sho
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 4, 2013
Minimum wage in US dollars Country Hour Week Month 1 France $12.09 $483.60 $2,095.60 2 Netherlands $10.93 $437.20 $1,894.53 3 Sint Maarten $4.78 $191.20
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 4, 2013
St. Maarten – It’s the “fastest, best connected businesses and places will win” in a globally competitive economy. “Grow or die, that’s the hard truth. If the airport doesn’t expand its market share, the island will suffer,” Dr. John
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 4, 2013
St. Maarten – The venom was in the tail of the first round during yesterday’s meeting of parliament where the minimum wage was on the agenda, when National Alliance MP Hyacinth Richardson remarked: “We have to get away from the situation whereb
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 4, 2013
GREAT BAY – The Council of Ministers has approved a change to the civil code that will offer protection to employees of companies that are sold to a new owner. Labor Minister Cornelius de Weever said yesterday in answer to a question by independent
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
The 2014 elections may seem far away to some, but others are already jockeying for position. Asking questions about these developments is usually a futile exercise, because answers mostly resemble – if they are forthcoming at all – a blank wall.
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
THE HAGUE – Former Minister of Defense Hans Hillen was active in Bonaire as advisor for corruption suspect Ramonsito Booi, leader of the Union Patriotiko Bonairean – UPB. Research by NTC Handelsblad has brought the relationship between Hillen and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
St. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams wants to see the same level of diplomacy and respect for autonomy that was displayed during the Kingdom delegation visit to South America repeated. Following her recent visit to Colombia and Venezuel
Fabian Schurgers is a writer and a game designer. He also has a remarkable opinion about prostitution and the men that frequent these working girls. In the Volkskrant, Schurgers found a podium to express that opinion. Well start with his conclusion a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
St. Maarten – The indexation of the minimum wage will go into effect per January 1, the Ministry of Public Health, social development and Labor announced in a press release yesterday afternoon. The parliament meets this afternoon to discuss the min
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
St. Maarten – The prosecutor’s office has appealed the verdict of the Court in First Instance in the case of Eric J.J. who stood trial on October 23 as a suspect in the killing of Kimberly Illidge on March 23 of this year. The court acquitted the
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
St. Maarten – The independent Public Administration Integrity Committee led by Justice Bob Wit will hold its first meetings starting Monday December 16; the meetings will continue until Friday December 20, the committee stated in a press release. T
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
St. Maarten – “Being a preferred cruise destination, I agree that Government should post haste limit the "must close" days for businesses on St. Maarten to Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day,” businessman Michael Ferrier said in a sta
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
St. Maarten – The Victory Christian Academy and the Girls Brigade will benefit from the sale of Island Days, the first children’s book by author Nerissa Golden. Island Days is a poetic collection of memories of growing up around the Caribbean an
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 3, 2013
St. Maarten - An unidentified security guard was found severely beaten and lying unconscious on the ground near the Tamarind Hotel in Point Blanche around 6 am yesterday morning. A police patrol was sent to investigate. The investigating officers not
That St. Maarten is doing relatively well among its peers in the Kingdom is no reason to celebrate – because the country ought to do much better. Cft chairman Bakker had some nice things to say about St. Maarten in his address yesterday: low nat
Not everybody has the same sense of humor, something one Mike de Wilde, the director of a company in Arnhem in car-electronics that bears his name found out the hard way this week. A candidate for an internship at the company was rejected. That happe
Here is an idea for party leader Frans Richardson (we don’t know the name of the party yet, that will probably be dropped under our Christmas tree). But hang on, the American government has taken an initiative that must be close to the local party
Here is an interesting checklist for our healthcare system and for our decision makers that must make sure that the system remains affordable. Psychological disorders gobble up more money than any other disease in the Netherlands. In 2011 this was �
“Sint Maarten’s budgetary challenges are smaller than the budgetary challenges that the Netherlands, Curacao and Aruba are saddled with”, according to the chairman of the Cft, Prof. Age Bakker. Sint Maarten’s economy compared to the Netherlan
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on December 2, 2013
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten has experienced the highest economic growth of all countries in the Kingdom since the year 2000. Prof. Dr. Age Bakker, chairman of the Board for financial supervision Cft highlighted this feat in an address at the congress D
