St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten - Thirty student volunteers of the ACE Foundation visited the seniors at the St. Maarten Home on Friday as part of preparing the students to be civic minded. Principal of the school Claire Elshot explained that the kids made a presenta
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
St. Maarten – After the bad news from last Saturday, when a driver lost control of her car and crashed through a part of Topper’s restaurant and bar in Simpson Bay, there was good news for the restaurant-owner yesterday afternoon, when the Judge
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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THE HAGUE – Justice has to initiate a large-scale criminal investigation into the “utterly corrupt” government of Sint Maarten. “The Second Chamber demands this, now that the controversial politician Theo Heyliger is grabbing the absolute pow
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten – The Parliament approved a motion to take a $5.5 million provision for the purchase of the Vorst Estate out of an amendment to the 2014 budget with 7 votes to 6. This blocks the purchase of the land, for which Vromi-Minister Maurice La
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten —Between 20 and 25 illegal firearms have been taken off the streets by the police in the last six weeks, including one confiscated on the boardwalk on Sunday night, according to police spokesman inspector Ricardo Henson. Henson expla
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten - With 100 cruise executives, presidents, chief executive officers, and approximately 1,000 conference attendees scheduled to attend the 21st Annual Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association’s (FCCA) Conference and trade show from October
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten –Judges announced the 2014 TelCell Breakthrough Talent Search winners in true Hollywood style at Saturday’s show at Maho. The winners and runners-up in the four categories were: New Generation Status won the Instruments segment with B
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten -Nagico and Travel Rent a Car are two of the companies that have made donations towards the computer lab for kids envisioned by the Middle Region and Defiance Community councils and towards their attempts to assist the Dow foundation wit
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten – Nominations for the ninth annual Crystal Pineapple Awards, organized by the St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association continues. Nomination period officially opened on September 1st 2014. SHTA has been receiving nominations and
That Cornelius de Weever turned his back to the Democratic Party and the coalition with the National Alliance and the United St. Maarten party over the counterpart-policy is simply not believable. Yesterday we learned that the Council of Ministers ap
Opinion - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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Somehow, we already knew this of course but to hear ex-formateur William Marlin confirm it, gives even more food to the thought that Country Sint Maarten will remain politically unstable for the foreseeable future. It is only a matter of time before
Why would a creative society need fringe groups and gurus? Ross Douthat explains in this op-ed that appeared earlier in the New York Times. “Like most children of the Reagan era, I grew up with a steady diet of media warnings about the perils of
Opinion - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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Dear Editor, Before postulation day for the recently held election for Parliament of Country St. Maarten, young people were encouraged to get involve and postulate themselves on a list of a political party. What we saw happened with a first tim
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar – Executing the counter-part article of the executive order on foreign labor is detrimental for St. Maarten’s economy because the labor supply is strongly dependent on immigration. This is the conclusion from an adv
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten – “It is a matter of time before you will see another shift,” former formateur William Marlin said at a press conference yesterday in answer to a question from this newspaper about political instability. “There is not a problem wi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
Comments Off on St. Maarten Parliament meets for third time about budget amendment
St. Maarten – The Parliament meets this morning at 10 a.m. for the third time in a row to handle an amendment to the 2014 budget. On two earlier occasions, the meeting did not go through due to a lack of quorum. This morning’s meeting will be hel
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten - Newly created music to Drisana Deborah Jack’s poetry will be performed at the 55th anniversary concert of the Delft Ars Vocalis Chamber Choir in the Netherlands, according to Jack’s publisher HNP. Dutch composers Rita Hijmans and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten - The University of St. Martin in its efforts to meet the growing needs of the community of St. Maarten, is now embarking upon an adult education class, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) in collaboration with Victorious Living Foundation
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten – Democratic Party leader Sarah Wescot-Williams used air quotes yesterday afternoon to express her bewilderment about Governor Holiday’s decision to appoint two informateurs on Thursday, after UP-leader Theo Heyliger’s presentatio
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten– A stroke of bad luck hit Topper’s restaurant in the early hours of Saturday morning when a driver lost control of her car and crashed literally through the front end of the business. The car took down a large billboard, destroys benc
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten—Illegal weapon possession and the victims of human trafficking were high on the agenda of the cadets of the customs and immigration services during a recent interview with justice minister Dennis Richardson. The cadets wanted to know
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten -Director of Civil Aviation at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Gerald Dillingham, is among the featured speakers at the forthcoming Safety and Security Conference and Exhibition being organized by the Princess Juliana Internati
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 30, 2014
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St. Maarten—Thirty student volunteers of the ACE Foundation visited the seniors at the St. Maarten Home on Friday as part of preparing the students to be civic minded. Principal of the school Claire Elshot explained that the kids made a presenta
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
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Collection drive in second half of October MARIGOT – French and Dutch side law enforcement authorities have joined forces in an attempt to get as many illegal firearms off the streets as possible. During a joint press conference at the prefectur
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
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St. Maarten – Initiate the fight against corruption, create and launch a strategic communications campaign and increase transparency and public access to information. These are the first three recommendations that appear from the 250-page integrity
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
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St. Maarten – It was to be expected, but it still was a sight for sore eyes when the rescheduled meeting of Parliament yesterday morning to handle an amendment to the 2014 budget did not get a quorum. Only MPs Hyacinth Richardson and George Pantoph
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
Comments Off on Governor appoints Marcel Gumbs and Joe Richardson as informateurs
St. Maarten - Marcel Gumbs and Joe Richardson have been offered and have accepted an assignment to become the informateurs of the new government of St. Maarten that is expected to be formed as a result of an agreement between Cornilus de Weever and t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
Comments Off on Teens arrested for stealing Hennesy Cognac
St. Maarten - Two teenagers were arrested yesterday after they stole several bottles of Hennesy Cognac from a supermarket in Cole Bay. The eighteen and sixteen year old male suspects with the initials M.D. (18) and J.L.M. (16) were arrested on Fr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
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St. Maarten – A “political statement” of 867 words Minister of Public Health, Social Affairs and Labor Cornelius de Weever issued last night makes clear that the counterpart policy was the breaking point that drove him to the decision to take
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
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ROTTERDAM – Caribbean youngsters who move on their own to the Netherlands for study often encounter all sorts of problems, Jamila Baaziz reports on Caribisch Netwerk. They do not know very well what life in the Netherlands looks like, and they get
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 29, 2014
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St. Maarten--The port is one of the sponsors of SXM Airport’s Safety & Security Conference 2014 which will bring to the country’s shores over 100 aviation professionals from the Caribbean region, airlines industry reps and civil aviation auth
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 25, 2014
Comments Off on Rumors run amok in local politics: Coalition may fall apart with De Weever’s departure
Finance Minister Martin Hassink confers with National Alliance leader William Marlin while (from left) Frans Richardson and Romain Laville look on. In front is NA-MP Hyacinth Richardson. Photo today / Milton PietersSt. Maarten – Rumblings in l
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 25, 2014
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St. Maarten – Yesterday Governor drs. Eugène Holiday, received an update on the formation process from formateur William Marlin. Based on the evaluation of the information presented to the governor in regard to the governing program and the time r
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 25, 2014
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St. Maarten – Rainely De L.M. appears to be a diminutive 21-year-old girl – a child almost by her appearance - but she will spend her foreseeable future behind bars in the Pointe Blanche prison. That is the price for transporting 13.8 kilos of co
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on September 25, 2014
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St. Maarten – Bas Roorda, Regina Labega, Lisa Koffi, Frans Richardson, Hiro Shigemoto, Alex Richardson, Miguel de Weever and Keith Graham will all be heard at witnesses at the request of the attorney of Edward Dest, the former head of marketing at
