St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2014
St. Maarten – Gregory Hinds had quite a story to tell in the Court in First Instance yesterday, but that did not save him from a conviction for firearm possession. After a demand of 18 months by prosecutor Karola van Nie, Judge Koos van de Ven sett
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2014
St. Maarten - For the past 35 years, the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and Industry has acted as the sole representative for the growing business community on St. Maarten and in a simple but yet significant ceremony yesterday, that milestone was ce
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 13, 2014
THE HAGUE – The debate about the Bosman Law in the Dutch parliament made clear yesterday that the legislation in its current form would not win majority support. Coalition partner PvdA says that the plans to keep underprivileged Dutch passport hold
Joost Smiers doesn’t think much of the moral fiber of the royals and thinks they should go, he writes in a column on the website Dutchnews.nl. Matte Mourik’s impressive documentary The Foolish Son, about Jorge Zorreguieta, set me thinking agai
It was to be expected, but the Bosman initiative law that would restrict the admission of Dutch passport holders from St. Maarten, Curacao and Aruba to the Netherlands met with plenty of criticism in the Second Chamber yesterday. If Bosman does not p
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on March 13, 2014
It would benefit everyone if someone stepped in to put the seemingly never-ending dogfight between Minister Maurice Lake and his predecessor William Marlin to rest. As we wrote before, in normal countries a minister who lies to parliament leaves h
The Parliament meeting requested by the National Alliance about the airport did not go through last week Thursday due to a lack of quorum. It had to be reconvened within four times 24 hours, so by last Tuesday. This did not happen; the Parliament
