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St. Maarten – Three armed men robbed the CIBC/First Caribbean Bank branch on Welfare Road in Cole Bay yesterday morning between 9:50 am and 10 am, police confirmed. They said they received several phone coming into the Police Central Dispatch repo
St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – James Maduro is not one to complain, but he loves to tell stories with a glint in his eyes. The 72-year old lives in Belvedere - wheelchair-bound after losing both of his legs to diabetes-induced gangrene. “The d
St. Maarten - A large crowd came out last night for the first public event of this election summer in Pointe Blanche on the parking lot across from the Tropical Shipping company - the presentation of the 23 candidates on the list of Theo Heyliger's
As the leader of the Concordia Political Alliance, I have realized that we have laws whereby only big parties and most of all rich parties would be able to contest elections here for parliament on St. Martin. First of all to prove that what I’m
In a feature release last week, the World Bank stated that rising sea levels caused by global warming are forcing Caribbean countries to prepare themselves better to face severe weather events. Arthur, the first hurricane of 2014, hit the eastern
Politics must be accessible to all. That sounds good and sympathetic, but is it really? Jeffrey Richardson answers the question elsewhere on this page: politics is for the rich and for the big parties, he says. If you have great ideas but no money, y
Ah, we missed that one. The relief program Gebe offers to senior citizens aged 62 or older gives the invoiced amount as a reduction to consumers who have less than 200 guilders on their invoice. We mistakenly wrote that these consumers get no relief