St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – Eight days before Justice Minister Roland Duncan left office on May 18, 2013 he granted attorney Ellen Knoppel a permanent labor contract. The incoming government however – Wescot-Williams III – considered the contract invalid, a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – Democratic Party MP Sarah Wescot-Williams questions that United People’s party leader Theo Heyliger has no knowledge of the draft 2015 budget that has been sent to the governor and is from thereon on its way to parliament. A Cent
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – Democratic Party MP Sarah Wescot-Williams has repeated her questions about the Sint Maarten Housing Foundation, wondering when Prime Minister Marcel Gumbs will find the time to answer them. She posed five questions on December 16, �
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten - A review and approval of TelEm’s financial statements for the year 2013, discussion on dividend payments to government for 2013 and a review and approval of the company’s budget and capital expenditures for this year – 2015 were
In a recent newspaper article dated January 13, 2015 you stated that you would be “looking at the sales structure” and “looking into the draft legislation” as submitted by Leroy de Weever. You need to be aware that this legislation was formul
Opinion, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
Dear Editor, Should justice be fair to all, or just a few? Caravanserai, Pelican, Rainbow, Flamingo, Royal Palm Beach Club - the list is very long of those properties where visitors/tourists to this island have lost their investments or had tim
The new Charlie Hebdo is there, a week after the terrorist attack at the editorial offices in Paris, The cover shows – oh yes – the propjet Mohammed. What does this cartoon tell us? The Dutch daily Trouw devoted an edition of its theological team
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance adjourned the trial against 17-year-old Shimano G. yesterday to March 25. The boy shot 28-year-old Etienne Leblanc on October 9 of last year in his father’s Flex-DVD store on Front Street. The adjourn
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten —A cruise passenger in his sixties-- Howard Cook--who arrived on St. Maarten onboard the Oasis cruise ship yesterday lost his life in a freak accident at the Orient Beach near Kontiki bar and restaurant around midday yesterday. Fran
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance set the date for the Bada Bing bribery trial for February 11 and 12 yesterday, overruling objections from attorneys who wanted more time to study the dossier and one who would have loved to keep February 1
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced 39-year-old Bert Bolan to a 3-month conditional prison sentence and 2 years of probation for hitting a man with a shovel on July 2, 2014. The incident happened on Union Road in Cole Bay where
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten —Just when most was in the process of shifting into the work mode after the festive season, the Hennessy Laugh Till Belly Burst organization will give its patrons some things to think about under the tent at the Port de Plaisance on Fr
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – The first firearm possession court cases after last year’s Stop Drop and Go action have not brought the prosecutor’s office the results it is after. When the action to surrender illegal firearms voluntarily ended in November of la
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten -A better structure where internal systems are linked and where up to date information can be easily accessed between departments was high on the agenda during a meeting yesterday of representatives of the Public Prosecutors Office and
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – The Court in First Instance sentenced Gerard Alexander Richardson, known as Davis on the French side of the island, to 36 months of imprisonment for a series of burglaries he committed between March and August of last year, mainly in
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Hassink has so far not complied with a request from financial supervisor Cft to submit a (draft) dividend policy and dividend decisions for government-owned companies before the end of last year. This appears from an
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – The board of the National Alliance has asked for the immediate resignation of United People’s party faction member MP Silvio Matser. The demand follows Matser’s conviction to 24 months for tax evasion last week in the Court in Fir
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten – Mark Mingo will leave his position as Chief Executive Officer at the Sint Maarten Harbor Group of Companies after tenure of thirteen years. Mingo confirmed his departure on Monday evening to Today, but did not elaborate on his future
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten —Human rights apply to all human beings and no one should have the power to take away the fundamental human rights of any particular group because they do not conform to the norms of a particular society. The rights currently being fou
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten - Independent Member of Parliament Cornelius De Weever has called on the board of the SMMC to be transparent in its communications with the public. The MP said yesterday that he has taken note of SMMC’s article regarding the Naf. 5 m
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten —Almost three months after the passage of hurricane Gonzalo, Gebe lines at Nutmeg road in Cay hill are still down, almost touching the road, and causing a dangerous situation to residents of the area. A group of concerned residents t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten —Drugs, illegal weapons and violence appeared to be the order of the day yesterday when police responded to reports of a stabbing in the vicinity of the Milton Pieters College and the St. Maarten Academy P.S.V.E. Both parties involved w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
St. Maarten —One of the suspects in the armed robbery at Atlantis Casino was arrested by police yesterday after he caught the attention of police after he was spotted riding a dirt bike without license plates. The suspect was spotted in Cole Ba
MP Silvio Matser and the UP-leadership had it coming: a call from the opposition National Alliance for the convicted MP to vacate his seat in Parliament. Since integrity is so high on everybody’s agenda this year, it is impossible to shove the o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on January 20, 2015
The new Charlie Hebdo that is published today in France has the French side of the island in its grip, but its Dutch-side neighbors remain completely oblivious to the fact that the world is eagerly looking forward to the stand the remaining editors o
We have two dogs (Koko and Dushi) and two cats (Peanut and Speedy). We love them all very much, but this article is about Peanut, our ten-year old cat. He is a calico cat with lots of different colors. Beautiful, but for 14 years he has not exactly
Mindfulness formal practice is sitting with awareness of breath, body sensations and thoughts. “Ehipassiko!” “Come and see for yourself!” Take courage to sit and just be and understand. A couple years ago, Amazon noticing my interest in re
