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OSPP launches Maurits Joslyn Richardson as electoral candidate

OSPP launches Maurits Joslyn Richardson as electoral candidate

Leader of the One St. Maarten Peoples Party with new candidate Joslyn Richardson, at Richardson’s South Reward organic farm. A labourer waters the plants in the background. St. Maarten News —Maurits Joslyn Richardson is being put forward

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EPIC to host free birding teachers’ workshop

EPIC to host free birding teachers’ workshop

Binkie van Es, birding expert who will be conducting the free teachers birding workshops in collaboration with Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC). St. Maarten News—On Wednesday 5 July & Thursday 6 July, Binkie van Es, in coll

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UP elects new board members for 2016-2018

St. Maarten News —The United People's Party (UP) Congress elected a new board for the party board period 2016-2018 on June 25 at the Belair Community Center. The persons who have been appointed to the board positions are: President Silvia Meyers-O

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DP condemns ‘racial antics’ in parliament

St. Maarten News - Leader of the Democratic Party (DP) Sarah Wescot-Williams has condoned racial comments in parliament and is calling for leaders of political parties to speak out. “Call it whatever you want, but I cringe every time I hear Members

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Body found on Old Cake House Road

St. Maarten News —Detectives are presently investigating a case of man found dead on the side of the Arlet Peters Road; better known as the Old Cake House road. According to a release from the police, the body was found on the section of the road o

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Agriculturists calling for government support

St. Maarten News —Although there is a huge threat by the invasive monkeys, the green iguanas and African snails which have been destroying crops on the island, there is still an initiative to have proper facilities such as an agricultural station o

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Patient sent to DR for surgery alleges mistreatment by SZV

  St. Maarten News —A patient who was sent to the Dominican Republic to undergo surgery, said he was kicked out of the hotel where he was staying without money and had to stay on the streets for 48 hours. The patient, Ricardo Gumbs was sen

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Princess Heights awarded Green Key Eco-Label

St. Maarten News — Princess Heights Luxury Boutique Condo Hotel has for the second year in a row been awarded with the prestigious Green Key eco-label. The Green Key Programme is a leading standard for excellence in the field of environmental re

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PPA convention on July 9

St. Maarten News - The Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) will hold its first party Convention on Saturday July 9 at the Lions Community Center in Sucker garden from 3 to 7 p.m. “we are extending a warm welcome to all candidates, their families, f

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St. Maarten Tourism Authority on the move

St. Maarten News - The St. Maarten Tourism Authority (STA) is now firmly on the move. With the presentation of two donations of US$5,000 each by the St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association and the St. Maarten Timeshare Association, the STA has

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Finance Minister Gibson orders screening Central Bank top

St. Maarten News – Minister of Finance Richard Gibson wants to end the rumors and innuendos about the Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten once and for all and for this purpose he has asked the national security service VDSM to screen the bank�

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Alegria loses lawsuit against Dunes Casino

St. Maarten News – The Court in First Instance has declared Alegria Real Estate inadmissible in its request to suspend the casino permit of GN Entertainment, the company that operates the Dunes Casino at the former Caravanserai Resort in Beacon Hil