Two issues need greater clarity and Vromi Minister Maurice Lake is the one who is currently responsible for providing that clarity. One issue involves the land deal with the Vorst family who recently dropped their court case against the state. For
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St. Maarten– Tropigas and Paul Anthony James Cook lost a lawsuit yesterday they had initiated against Sol Antilles. Tropigas and Cook demanded that Sol lift the liens it has placed on their assets and bank accounts, but the court denied them. Tr
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St. Maarten – The much-anticipated lawsuit six members of the Vorst family brought against country St. Maarten over the purchase of property in Cay Hill at the location where former Minister of Justice Roland Duncan once envisioned his $100 million
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St. Maarten / By Jason Lista – Her favorite story is that of Ulysses, the timeless tale of the epic journey through the ups and downs of life that we all face, full of both hazard and wonder. Mounette Radot is 82, and has lived a life worth tellin
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Sandwich tax Trust the Belgians to come up with something original that feels at the same time a bit despicable. Flemish primary schools are going to charge the parents of their pupils in September a sandwich tax, according to the newspaper Het La
Is our justice system failing our crime victims? That question bubbled to the surface after the trial of a man who is a suspect in an armed robbery at the Tamarind Hotel that took place last year. One of the robbers hit a security guard on the back o
Chain-smoker When do neighbors become so annoying that a court decides to throw them out of their house? In St. Maarten we live with plenty of noise pollution. People have got so used to the noise and the fact that hardly ever anything is done abo
Pavlov reaction We’re not very sensitive to remarks foreign countries make about our behavior, but this one deserves a bit more than average attention. The American Trafficking in Persons report observes that authorities in St. Maarten display a
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St. Maarten - Prosecutor Gonda van der Wulp demanded 10 years imprisonment yesterday against Franklyn Emmanuel L. for his involvement in the near fatal armed robbery against the owners of L’Escargot restaurant in Philipsburg on October 26, 2012. Th
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St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – Yesterday, this newspaper published the first of a series of stories designed to give poverty in St. Maarten a face. Today the second installment – the story of Margret, a retired cleaning lady. Margret is 70
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St. Maarten – Like last year, the annual Trafficking in Persons (TiP) report from the American State Department describes St. Maarten as a source, transit, and destination for women, children and men subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor.
Promises, promises Right, elections are coming and nobody will be able to escape the deluge of empty promises political parties are going to make. Voters, who want to keep their sanity during this siege of political verbal terrorism, ought to keep
Political party Citizens for Positive Change (CPC) has reviewed the General Audit Chamber’s 2012 Financial Compliance Report and is concerned about the apparent financial mismanagement of St. Maarten since gaining country status on 10-10-2010. C
Big Gulp Super cups. No, we are not talking about soccer here. This is about the mega super cups New Yorkers love or hate. The ones they use for slobbering sodas. The Supreme Court of the state of New York shot down a proposal to ban half-liter cu
