Uncategorized - Posted by admin on January 2, 2014
Here is another suggestion that went nowhere in 2013 in St. Maarten. There was no interest in this idea whatsoever. Not to rub it in, but to bring the idea back to the forefront, we reprint here what we wrote in November of last year about a measure
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on December 20, 2013
Pro forma hearing brings details about assassination to light Curacao – The unknown party that commissioned the assassination of Pueblo Soberano leader Helmin Wiels paid the killers half a million guilders (close to $280,000). The prosecution su
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on November 22, 2013
KRALENDIJK – The Dutch intelligence service AIVD spied on politicians in Bonaire between 2005 and 2010, an investigation by NRC Handelsblad revealed yesterday. The targets of this illegal operation that was kept secret from the Antillean cabinet we
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on October 15, 2013
SABA / By Suzanne Nielsen —Astronomer Stephan Martin’s Thursday night talk on light pollution was more prophetic that he realized. His lecture at the Sea and Learn conference on the dangers of artificial lightening was only hours before neighbor
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on October 9, 2013
[caption id="attachment_25380" align="alignleft" width="150"] Dr. Patricia Lynn Hough. Photo Vitals.com[/caption] KRALENDIJK / FORT MYERS - Patricia Hough, according to her lawyers, is an altruistic psychiatrist who helped her husband build two Ca
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on October 8, 2013
WILLEMSTAD – Eline de Pool, recently crowned as Miss Curacao, may lose her crown because her father, her brother, her uncle and two of her cousins were arrested last Saturday for drugs and weapons possession. The 19-year-old won with her title the
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on October 7, 2013
St. Maarten – Preparations are well underway to celebrate the third anniversary of St. Maarten achieving country status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. A solemn session of the House of Parliament will be held to commemorate the anniversar
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on October 4, 2013
St. Maarten – National Alliance leader William Marlin is back in his role as Member of Parliament and he grabbed the opportunity yesterday in the meeting requested by Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams and Justice Minister Dennis Richardson to gi
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 26, 2013
GREAT BAY – St. Maarten’s 2014 budget will be approved and signed into law before the end of the year. Finance Minister Maarten Hassink re-confirmed the government’s intention to achieve this goal. “It is a very tight schedule, but all minist
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 25, 2013
ORANJESTAD, Aruba – “Some patients are tied to their beds for the sake of convenience. They have to sit in their own feces for days because there is no time to clean them up,” says Melva Croes-Yánez, the president of the Alzheimer Foundation i
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 25, 2013
THE BOTTOM, Saba – Sea & Learn 2013 is an upcoming series of events on Saba organized to “enhance your environmental awareness.” A highly renowned group of international experts in various fields will descend on the island to deliver many f
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 24, 2013
KRALENDIJK, Bonaire –Foreign inmates in the prison in Bonaire went on hunger strike again yesterday morning, after they stopped a similar action a couple of weeks ago. Several Bonairean inmates support the action. A spokesman for the inmates sai
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 19, 2013
Pierre Ferland, Head at Pineapple Pete, shares a light moment with Desmond Patterson who will be competing in the heavy weight category at this year’s CAC Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships in the Dominican Republic this weekend. Photo To
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 9, 2013
Florentina, aka Pretu, arrives in Curacao after his arrest in Zoetermeer. Photo Crimesite CamilleriWILLEMSTAD, Curacao – Luigi Lorenzo Florentina is dead. The 27-year-old committed suicide in his cell in Barber by hanging himself with parts of
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 4, 2013
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has outlined plans to launch two pilot projects that will address areas where St. Maarten is lacking based on the ‘Millennium Development Goal Report for St. Maarten’. The prime minister exp
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on September 4, 2013
St. Maarten AY- Wifol president Theophilus Thompson is registering concern over what he calls a “very serious problem within the labor market.” He believes that many businesses are now patterning themselves after the fiasco involving Pelican Reso
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 28, 2013
GREAT BAY- Civil servants and teachers have now expressed the desire to have the complete payment of their cost of living adjustment (Cola) indexed to their salaries, following a general membership meeting last week. The workers who fall under the
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 26, 2013
KRALENDIJK – Ramonsito Booi and Burney El Hage will appear in court on November 25 to face charges of corruption, money laundering, forgery and fraud. El Hage is a former Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands Antilles and currently a Comm
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 20, 2013
WILLEMSTAD – GreenTown Curacao teams up with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to replace the heavily polluting oil refinery with a lively green waterfront city. The €5 billion ($6.4 billion) cost of GreenTown is consistent with the priorities e
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 12, 2013
Pastor Curtis Meris addresses the crowd at the place of the fatal accident. Photo Caribisch Netwerk / Dick Drayer WILLEMSTAD – Around 500 relatives, friends acquaintances and others took part in a silent march to commemorate the death of three
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 8, 2013
Attorney expects detention to be brief ROME / St. Maarten – Atlantis World and BPlus Giocolegale Ltd. owner Francesco Corallo is currently detained in Rome for questioning about his role in the Banco Popolare di Milano scandal. Corallo volunta
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 6, 2013
WILLEMSTAD – The 23-year-old driver who drove into the crowd yesterday morning and killed three joggers was, according to Police spokesman Reginald Huggins, amongst others under the influence of alcohol and was not in possession of a driver’s lic
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 5, 2013
WILLEMSTAD – The police in Curacao arrested a woman in connection with the murder of PS Leader Helmin Wiels, NRC Handelsblad published on its website yesterday. After the arrest of the 43-year-old woman with the initials M.A.B., police officers
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 5, 2013
The bodies of the three victims who are being investigated by police officers in Willemstad. Photo ANPWILLEMSTAD – Three joggers who participated in a sponsor run yesterday in Curacao were killed when a 23-year-old man drove with high speed into th
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on August 2, 2013
WILLEMSTAD - Gun-toting ministers. That will soon be the situation in Curacao when Justice Minister Nelson Navarro, administrative affairs Minister Etienne van der Horst and economic Affairs Minister Stanley Palm will go to work armed with a firearm.
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on July 25, 2013
St. Maarten - On Sunday 70 students from St. Maarten will depart on the 12.30 p.m. flight to Amsterdam where they will continue their studies in the capital, in nearby Diemen, The Hague or Rotterdam. Two representatives of the study financing departm
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on July 25, 2013
Mingo very pleased with visit prime minister and delegation St. Maarten – The cruise tourism figures for cruise and cargo movements in 2012 for the three Kingdom countries of Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten were given to Dutch Prime Minister Mark
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on July 23, 2013
The late Pueblo Soberano-leader Helmin Wiels.WILLEMSTAD - Politicians in Curacao knew about the plan to assassinate Pueblo Soberano-leader Helmin Wiels. Tom-Jan Meeus reports in NRC Handelsblad that the prosecutor's office in Curacao has "strong
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on July 11, 2013
St. Maarten- Did the head of the National Security Service VDSM James R. disappear without a trace? Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams declined to answer the question at yesterday's press briefing. Late on Monday afternoon, the PM sent out a press
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on July 10, 2013
KRALENDIJK - The Foundation for Good Governance in Bonaire calls on Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Minister Ronald Plasterk to intervene resolutely in the governing crisis, Belkis Osepa reports on Caribisch Netwerk. The foundation suggest as a
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on May 20, 2013
WILLEMSTAD – The life partner of the murdered political leader says that Wiels did not have security for weeks before he was killed. His own party Pueblo Soberano gave the order to stop the bodyguard service for the Member of Parliament. This is w
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted by admin on March 28, 2013
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – During the weekly Council of Ministers’ meeting, Prime Minister Daniel Hodge has decided to turn in the resignation of his cabinet to the Governor of Curacao. The cabinet is now a demissionary government and the process of f
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on March 5, 2013
Grand Case - March 4, 2013 – Author Mark Yokoyama’s The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Saint Martin has brought St. Martin’s unique fauna to thousands, both in print and online. Now, with a totally-updated new edition almost complete, he h
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on February 19, 2013
St. Maarten – “We have been wrongfully accused of drugs and weapon possession and we want to set that record straight,” Phyllis Brooks, a member of the family that was evicted from its houses in Fort Willem last Saturday, said. “No drugs, wea
Uncategorized - Posted by admin on February 18, 2013
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – The aviation company Insel Air has decided to temporarily stop the expansion of its flights to Venezuela. This is a direct consequence of the devaluation of the bolivar, which since today has become one third less compared
