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St. Maarten (DCOMM) – In an effort to stimulate entrepreneurship and better use of the St. Maarten Festival Village, the Stichting Overheidsgebouwen (SOG) has embarked on a weekend program together with the Strictly Business Educational Foundation
St. Maarten – The autopsy on the burglar that died in a struggle with residents in Oyster Pond last week Tuesday has not yielded a clear answer to the question about the young man’s cause of death, the prosecutor’s office said before the weeken
St. Maarten - If there was ever a debate to see which minister in the government of St Maarten is the fittest, then Cornelius de Weever would secure the majority of the votes, though Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams would be a tough competitor fo
St. Maarten – Public Health Minister Cornelius de Weever applauds the efforts by Vromi-Minister Maurice Lake, to begin discussions with the Management of St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) on the hospital’s expansion, to ensure the timely processi
St. Maarten (DCOMM) – Collective Preventive Services (CPS), advises residents of Belvedere, Dutch Quarter including Union Farm and Garden of Eden, and Middle Region that a cycle of emergency mosquito fogging will start on Wednesday. Homeowners d
St. Maarten - Just when every thought that day one in the 2014 St Maarten national Basketball Association season would have set the tone for the remaining of the highly anticipated tournament, one player died while warming up for game two just ho
The expansion of the medical center has become a political ping pong ball whereby politicians are jockeying for honors. First there was Vromi-Minister Lake who stepped into the playing field of Public Health Minister De Weever with assurances abou
Concerned citizens from Simpson Bay – apparently afraid of their own shadows – lambasted telecom provider UTS for “holding a poll in the Today newspaper” about a possible name for the bridge across the Simpson Bay lagoon. Said residents turne
St. Maarten – Stevenson Pinder told the Common Court of Justice on Thursday that he had not had a fair trial in 2013 when the Court in First Instance sentenced him to 14 years for the murder of Gaston Ambroise Gumbs on November 10, 2012. Solicitor-
St. Maarten – The Common Court of Justice postponed the appeal hearing in the Middle Region baby murder to February 27. The defendant, Dalton Danelle Le Blanc, is currently serving a 15-year sentence for the gruesome murder that took place on April
St. Maarten – The merger of telecom provider TelEm with a strategic partner is close. Based on information this newspaper received the TelEm Group of companies will merge with local competitor UTS. “The final decision has not been taken yet bu
“Prosecution handles identical cases always the same way” St. Maarten – “The Public Prosecutor’s Office always treats suspects in identical cases the always same way. However, all cases have their own nuances and this is certainly the c
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Rodriguez Leonel Prosper Weinum yesterday to 18 years of imprisonment for complicity to the murders of 25-year-old Anthony Whit and 21-year-old Miguel Torres Cleman on December 9, 2012 near the So
The Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that it treats identical cases always the same way, as the reaction to statements made by Bada Bing owner Jaap van den Heuvel show. That is of course a laudable objective, but the question has now been posed