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The conviction of former Prime Minister of Curacao Gerrit Schotte comes as no surprise; the evidence is simply too overwhelming. From a community point of view, the case shows that nobody is above the law. That’s a good thing and with this convict
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Politicians are falling fast and hard these days. While St. Maarten is closely following the misadventures of independent MP Silvio Matser, the Court in First Instance in Curacao dealt a severe blow to former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte and his gir
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The parliamentary committee for Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication had a meeting on the agenda for 10 a.m. yesterday morning. At 9.34 a.m. we received an email with the following text: “You are hereby informed that the commi
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80-year-old mother picked up for interrogation St. Maarten News – The Judge of Instruction put independent MP Silvio Matser in pretrial detention for eight days yesterday, but this decision will not lead to his suspension as a Member of Parliament
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Passive voting rights taken away for five years Curacao News – The Court in First Instance sentenced former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte to 3 years of imprisonment yesterday. His girlfriend Cicely van der Dijs received an 18-month prison sentenc
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St. Maarten News – Tourism and Economic Affairs Minister Ingrid Arrindell is “very pleased” that CNN Travel carried a story where the Princess Juliana International Airport ranked among the five favorite places for plane-spotting in the world.
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St. Maarten News – Policeman Anselmo Boasman who passed away on February 29 was laid to rest today. The young police officer, who succumbed to the injuries he sustained in a traffic accident will be buried with full honors. At 11 a.m. the body of
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St. Maarten News - Port St. Maarten Management has recognized the women who work at the facility and make up approximately one third of the 79-member staff that work within the thirteen companies that make up Port St. Maarten Group of Companies. On
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GREAT BAY – St. Maarten has more sun, but the Dutch island of Ameland will soon have the largest solar power farm in the Netherlands. It will become operational next month, broadcaster NOS reported yesterday. The size of the farm gives an idea abo
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St. Maarten News – A 76-year-old frequent visitor to the island is desperate to get his stolen rental car back, in particular because in the trunk there is a Gogo scootmobile, the only means of transportation for his wife when she ventures from hom
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St. Maarten News – “I would like to make public, that when I got involved in the discussions about finding a suitable location on Dutch St Maarten for a Water Treatment Facility, the country was already facing the end of an extended period and de
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St. Maarten News – The North American General Interest Magazine has named St. Maarten as one of the top ten destinations in the Caribbean for bird-tourism. The magazine highlighted Sint Maarten as “A hot spot for migrating sea birds with a burgeo
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St. Maarten News: “The vision the Methodist Agogic Center has had for forty years to offer education from the cradle to the grave is being realized especially this year with the addition of the MAC Comprehensive School. It shows that the school is
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By Dr. Basil Springer - I promised two weeks ago to embark systematically on "the management and enterprise development" series of columns to address the specific needs of start-up and evolving businesses. After an interlude on West Indies cricketing
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Dear Editor, Let’s purge St. Maarten parliament of all the vote buyers. The good name of St. Maarten once again has been dragged through the mud with the arrest of one of the Members of Parliament who is supporting the existing government. Most el
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Independent MP Cornelius de Weever’s inability to put a simple question in the correct perspective led yesterday for the second time to an ugly outburst that seems to suggest that said MP hates the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and
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Annual reports due by March 31 St. Maarten News – The Electoral Council is currently reviewing the registration of donations political parties received in 2015. The council said in a press release “that all eight registered parties should submit
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Marlin-Romeo offers conditional support with several amendments St. Maarten News – The highly anticipated continuation of the budget meeting took less than two hours yesterday before parliament’s president Sarah Wescot-Williams suspended it unti
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St. Maarten News – The trial of Robby’s Lottery owner Robbie dos Santos in Curacao that concludes today has several links to St. Maarten, or so it appears from the presentation of the case to the court by the Public Prosecutor’s Office. Dos San
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St. Martin News - The non-profit association Caribbean Sail Training will repeat the successful Tall Ships Day it hosted last Thursday during the Commodore Cup in the Heineken Regatta next year on Thursday March 2. Several Sail Training Vessels and
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St. Maarten News – A 22-year-old firebrand who could not stand the way her stepfather treated her mother received a sentence of 180 days of imprisonment, with 170 days suspended, in the Court in First Instance on Wednesday for hitting her stepfathe
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St. Maarten News - The Rotary Club of St. Maarten-Mid Isle presented a check to Vice President Paul Ellinger and treasurer Marinka Gumbs of the Gamali Benjamin Foundation. Police Officer Gamali Benjamin was the first officer to be fatally shot in the
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St. Maarten News - If there are no coincidences, the story of Diane Hosea S. is a remarkable one. The 35-year-old stabbed a man whom he said had fired shots at him in the past near the Festival Village on April 27, 2014; on October 22 of last year hi
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St. Maarten News – The Common Court of Justice rejected on Wednesday the request of MP Silvio Mater’s attorney Cor Merx to lift the restrictions that currently apply to his client’s detention. The reason for the rejection is that others are sti
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DELFT – In the future Saba will generate all energy in a sustainable way and in the process it will also produce drinking water. That is what the Delft-based company Bluerise wants. Yesterday the company spoke with the committee for kingdom relatio
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St. Maarten News - A team from the Interpol Cybercrime Capacity Building Program in Latin America and the Caribbean represented by Adrian Acosta (Buenos Aires) and Steve Honnis (Singapore) met with the Interpol representative on Sint Maarten and repr
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St. Maarten News - On March 9th 2016 the organizing committee of Rio Productions Lighted Parade conducted a meeting at the headquarters of Caribbean Liquors and Tobacco to complete the final details for the Lighted Parade on April 9. “It is Rio Pr
