St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 21, 2015
The late Michael Jeffers at Milton Peters College. Photo Contributed St. Maarten -Michael Jeffers was found dead on Tuesday evening at his home at the Coco Plum Road in St. Peters. Jeffers was the former head of security at the islands biggest hi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 21, 2015
The relocation of sea turtle eggs in progress. Photo contributed GREAT BAY - The St. Maarten Nature Foundation was alerted to a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting on Great Bay Beach early on Monday morning. The turtle had nested i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 19, 2015
St. Maarten – After everything was said and done yesterday, only the opposition faction of the National Alliance voted against the establishment of the Integrity Chamber. The United People’s party faction, having voiced serious opposition against
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 19, 2015
St. Maarten – The lawsuit the supervisory board of the Central Bank of Curacao and Sint Maarten filed against Emsley Tromp, Alberto Romero and Jerry Hasselmeyer is a solo action of chairman Rennie Maduro and board member Tom Kok, the Antilliaans D
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 19, 2015
The only person that knows what is going through this little boy’s mind is himself, this was just one of the images captured at the MAC School in Betty’s Estate on the first day at school for the new term. Photo Today / Milton Pieters
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 19, 2015
[caption id="attachment_31737" align="alignnone" width="365"] President of Parliament Dr. Lloyd Richardson. Photo contributed[/caption] St. Maarten - The parliament will transfer 300,000 guilders of its travel budget to the Ministry of J
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 19, 2015
St. Maarten – Domino’s Pizza is bent on setting a “world record” by delivering pizzas to eight countries and islands within one hour on Friday. Some of the deliveries will be made by air, some by land, and one by sea. The company will rec
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 19, 2015
A police officer searches for bullets and other evidence at the crime scene on Sunday evening. Photo Today / Andrew Dick St. Maarten - Donavan McCardy (45) arrived at the police station after 8 p.m. on Sunday evening with six gunshot wounds. Polic
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 19, 2015
St. Maarten - Independent MP Leona Marlin-Romeo has requested a meeting to discuss the establishment of a small claims court. Attorney Reynold Groeneveldt has prepared a proposal to this end. Marlin-Romeo supports this initiative that all
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
Police Chief Gerard Bouman is no longer welcome at the justice ministry. Photo contributed. St. Maarten – Gerard Bouman, the chief of the national police in the Netherlands is no longer welcome at the ministry of justice in St. Maarten. �
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
The Council of Ministers during yesterday’s press briefing. From left Ministers Connor, Gumbs, Richardson, Hassink and Bourne-Gumbs. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar St. Maarten – It was supposed to be a solemn press briefing by the Counci
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - The second suspect in last Wednesdays’ robbery of jewelry store Oro Diamante on Front Street has been identified as 20-year-Jamal L. During this robbery, 23-year-old rapper Kilo Gotti shot and killed police Officer Gamali Benjamin, w
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten – Finance Minister Martin Hassink repeated at yesterday’s press briefing what he already confirmed last week in a report that appeared last Saturday in this newspaper: the Kingdom Council of Ministers will take a decision a
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten – “Benjamin was prepared to give his life for his country. I am prepared to take a few years in prison for our country,” an embittered Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson said yesterday at the end of a statement about t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
Citizens, colleagues and politicians flocked to the police station yesterday to sign the condolence register for the late Officer Gamali Benjamin. Prime Minister Marcel Gumbs, and the ministers Hassink, Rita Bourne-Gumbs and Claret Connor w
Editorial, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
It’s too late to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted, our dictionary gives as the translation for the oh so Dutch expression: ‘Als het kalf verdronken is dempt men de put.’ This is the sentiment in the circles of the civil servic
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - The seasonal influx of Sargassum seaweed on Caribbean beaches has got the attention of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and tourism policymakers and practitioners across the region. Sargassum is a natural occurrence believed
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
From left: Hasani Ellis, Sarah Wescot-Williams and Emil Lee at yesterday’ press conference. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar St. Maarten – “We are in this together and something has to change,” Democratic Party MP Sarah Wescot-Williams sa
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
Erna Mae Francis co-authored Success from the Heart. Photo contributed St. Maarten – Success from the Heart is a book published by a company called New Peaks. It contains a chapter written by Erna Mae Francis-Cotton of the Victorious Livi
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - The United Nations General Assembly designated International Youth Day on August 12, 1999. It is observed every year with the aim to celebrate the contribution that youth make to the society. This day also provides opportunit
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - The police has aprehended the second suspect in the 'Oro Diamante' investigation and three others. The suspect was hiding at a home in the St. Peters district when police arrived on the scene, they searched the home and found four pe
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten -The WICSU/PSU Union extends condolences on behalf of the entire board and membership to Officer Benjamin’s entire family, especially to his father Gilbert, who is also a member of the Union, the officer’s widow and their 5-year-old
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - The website gofundme has raised $6,790 so far, for the family of police Officer Gamali Benjamin. Radio host and Managing Director of Caribe Broadcasting Network/Island92 Jeffrey Sochrin, had started a site to raise funds to help suppor
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - Yesterday’s closed-door Central Committee meeting about crime will continue on Friday when ministers will answers questions from MPs. The meeting started at 10 a.m. and concluded after 3 p.m. The entire Council of Ministers
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten – Debating the governing program Ready to Work for You “would inevitably lead to much rhetoric, but little substance,” the opposition factions of National Alliance and Democratic Party say in a joint statement. The opposition says t
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - Twelve years ago, in April 2003 to be exact, Soca superstar Machel Montano and his mother Elizabeth were destined to perform at the Carnival Village for a Soca Blow out show. At the Princess Juliana International Airport, Sec
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - Anyone that is assisting the fugitive on the run from police for his involvement in the 'Oro Diamante' robbery, during which police Officer Gamali Benjamin was shot to death, will face criminal charges of six months
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten – “No reason,” says Shaun Green, managing director of the Megaplex cinema in Simpson Bay about the decision to drop the showing of Straight Outta Compton. The headquarters of Caribbean Cinemas in Puerto Rico could not be r
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten – Lenny Priest, leader of the extra-parliamentary One St. Maarten People Party (OSPP) has submitted a motion to the President of Parliament, Dr. Lloyd Richardson that asks for lower energy tariffs for public and subsidized sch
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 14, 2015
St. Maarten - In the wake of the call by the Ministry of Justice to implement extraordinary measures to curb crimes on St Maarten, a few residents offered their views on the matter. Because of the laws in the Dutch Kingdom, only law enfo
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 12, 2015
St. Maarten – Is a letter Tourism and Economic Affairs Minister Claret Connor sent to parliament on June 22 “a scam”? Democratic Party MP Sarah Wescot-Williams asks that question in a press statement about the fledgling St. Maarten To
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 12, 2015
St. Maarten - Anyone that is assisting the fugitive on the run from police for his involvement in the 'Oro Diamante' robbery, during which police Officer Gamali Benjamin was shot to death, will face criminal charges of six months in jail or a fine o
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 12, 2015
St. Maarten / By Hilbert Haar– The initiative by Justice Minister Dennis Richardson to introduce preventive body searches in the fight against criminality has met with doubts from the legal community. Attorneys question the measure’s feasibility
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 12, 2015
Michael Ferrier. File photo Today / Leo Brown St. Maarten – Businessman Michael Ferrier, a former president of the Democratic Party – as party he left in disgust last year – analyzes in this article the situation the country finds i
St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on August 12, 2015
Officer Benjamin during his days as a bike patrol officer. Photo Facebook St. Maarten -The police are mourning the loss of Sergeant Gamali Benjamin, who died on Saturday at the Medical Center. Following a shooting last week Wednesday on Fro
