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St.maarten - St. Maarten Academy’s academic campus hosts a panel discussion tomorrow with representatives of political parties and high school students in the run-up to parliamentary elections. The event takes place under the theme "Generatio
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St.maarten- The National Mosquito Elimination community program Zika Virus disease Beat ZikV was in the residential area of Betty’s Estate Saturday a week ago and of the homes visited, one in five had mosquito larvae. The vector control team and v
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St.maarten - The police have taken notice of the increased popularity of tasers among youngsters. In two separate cases students of secondary schools were caught in the possession of a taser. They were taken away and the students were expelled from s
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St.maarten - There has been a noticeable increase in cases of Hand Foot and Mouth Disease, The Collective Prevention Services (CPS) says in a press release and urges parents and guardians, day care centers and play schools to be on alert for an incre
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GREAT BAY - The police are requesting assistance from the community in connection with the investigation into the fatal traffic accident on September 6 on the Airport Road that took the life of cyclist Bas de Haan. The police are urgently requesting
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St.maarten – The Hanwang Caribbean Forum, the groundbreaking at Little Bay Beach preceded by a protest that involved the Hope and the Christian Party, followed by a press conference where Shuqiang Cui, president of New Life Town Investment and Deve
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THE HAGUE - Life expectancy in the Netherlands continues to rise and a girl born this year is likely to live to the age of 93, according to new figures from the Dutch actuarial association. The average boy baby will live to just over 90 and babies bo
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St.martin—“France via the Préfète does not recognize or take into consideration the reality of this territory or give value to the Treaty of Concordia which dates back some 400 years ago and which was signed by France and Holland,” the former
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St.maarten– The St. Maarten Tourist Bureau recently received 33 students from the Sundial School with their teachers for a tour of the island. The students were 3rd and 4th formers from the hospitality section. They visited hotel properties and hi
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St.maarten – More than twelve years ago, on January 28, 2004, current Minister of Finance Richard Gibson Sr. presented the Lionel B. Scott Memorial address at the Philipsburg Mutual improvement Association. Today, that speech puts the recent histor
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St.maarten - The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, has made it easier for the public to get information online by launching its website www.ministryvsa.sx which is still in a developmental phase. Much of the information on the
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St.maarten - The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development, and Labor and the Ministry of Education have created the website www.opportunity.sx to make it easier for job seekers to find work and to enable companies to find the right employees. Us
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St.maarten- Representatives from Sint Maarten's creative industries met last Monday at the John Larmonie Center to discuss their needs for growth, support & incentives over the next years to prepare a program that facilitates opportunities for fu
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St.maarten – The fourth floor of the new government building is ready to receive its residents – the Council of Ministers and its support staff, SZV interim-director Glen Carty said yesterday. Next week the building will be officially transferred
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St.maarten – The Common Court of Justice mitigated the sentence Hosea Diane Sablon received in the Court in First Instance for firing shot with a hunting rifle at his neighbor twice on December 13 of last year. The Appeals Court sentenced Sablon to
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St.maarten – The Court in First Instance acquitted all suspects in the Masbangu-trial yesterday. The court ruled that there is no proof that the representative of the United People’s party, Roy H, an uncle of party-leader Theo Heyliger, had paid
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St.maarten– The Common Court of Justice acquitted former Member of Parliament Leroy de Weever yesterday of the theft of a tablet from blogger Judith Roumou. The Court in First Instance had found De Weever guilty and sentenced him to a 750 guilders
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St.maarten - The Council of Advice presented its 2015 annual report last Thursday to Prime Minister William Marlin. The Council of Advice guards the democracy and constitutional state of St. Maarten by providing independent, qualitative, accurate, s
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St.maarten - Leader of the United St. Maarten party MP Frans Richardson on Monday night urged Prime Minister William Marlin to finally "put to bed and shut up" Minister of Finance Richard Gibson who, according to Richardson, is "becomi
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St.maarten – Governor Drs. Eugène Holiday put the emphasis on the need for political and fiscal stability yesterday morning in his address at the opening of the 2016-2017 parliamentary year. “Stability is a necessary condition to facilitate publ
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St.maarten – Two 30-year-old Albanian twin brothers were arrested at the Princess Juliana International Airport last week Tuesday carrying false Canadian passports. Both suspects were taken to the police station in Philipsburg where they remain in
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St.maarten – What should have been a solemn closure of the 2015-2016 parliamentary year became another confrontation between the chairlady of parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams and independent MP Cornelius de Weever, while UP faction leader Franklin
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St.maarten – While all the focus at this moment is on the investment project in Little Bay – a 326-room hotel and 450 apartments – Jeff Berger’s St. Maarten Weekly News reports movement in other areas on the hotel front: the possible demise o
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GREAT BAY – According to the Quarterly Bulletin of the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten, economic developments in the monetary union were uneven in the first quarter of 2016. Curaçao recorded a real GDP contraction, while Sint Maarten’
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St.maarten- For quite some time the Police Department has received numerous complaints from persons in the community and mainly from residents living on the A. Th. Illidge road in the section between the “Cottage Round About” and the entrance of
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St.maarten –Yesterday countries all over the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of International Literacy Day. The Democratic Party (DP) candidates have chosen to dedicate their time to go to different schools or after school programs and read t
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St.maarten – “It appears that no electoral reform will make it to a Parliament before the September 26th parliamentary election. Of course, this parliament will have the opportunity to legislate until October 31, the day of its dissolution. Elect
