St. Maarten News - Posted on January 7, 2011
St. Maarten - Police arrested a man on Wednesday after he stole $200 from the Wing Li Supermarket in Middle Region. Residents helped the police catch the thief. The owner and staffer reported the robbery at 11:30am after the man who committed the ro
St. Maarten News - Posted on January 7, 2011
St. Maarten - Police arrested two men in a stolen car, with tools for a "break in" on Thursday morning. The arrest was made after police chased the suspected thieves and fired two warning shots, one of which hit the gas tank. Police said teh car was
St. Maarten News - Posted on January 7, 2011
St. Maarten - The parents of a child who became ill after drinking too much alcohol has called for tighter controls on minors entering night clubs. They made the call after their child had to be rushed to the hospital. People are allowed to
St. Maarten News - Posted on January 7, 2011
St. Maarten - National Alliance has called for Jules James, and others within Parliament and the Council of Ministers, to choose between their function and their secondary positions. He also called for the unions to ?stop talking? and organi
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten – Justice Minister Roland Duncan announced Wednesday that revamps to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure will be given a St. Maarten flavor. He’s committed to doing so despite pressure from the Dutch Government to app
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten - Afro picks, retractable blades, combs, lighters and smoking paraphernalia were among the items confiscated by police in Wednesday morning’s impromptu search of school buses. Wednesday’s search comes days after a similar exercise an
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten – Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor Maria Buncamper-Molanus expects to receive the first draft of amendments to the policy on the employment of foreign nationals on Friday. The changes focus on criteria like the ag
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten – The trial against two brothers and two accomplices allegedly involved in transporting 600 kilos of cocaine from St. Maarten to the Netherlands might come to nothing if the Public Prosecutor’s Office declares itself inadmissible in t
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten - The Council of Ministers appointed three dispatchers for the St. Maarten Ambulance Department during its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday. Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor Maria Buncamper Molanus did the ann
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten – Eco-Green N.V., the company that bought the economic ownership of a piece of land Minister Maria Buncamper-Molanus and her husband Claudius held in long lease on Pond Island, was registered at the Chamber of Commerce on December 16, 2
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 9, 2010
St. Maarten – Convicted fraudster and forger Derrick Holiday has been appointed Labor Mediator. The former St. Maarten Chief Commissioner of Police will work along side the current mediator Kenneth Lopes, who will stand down in April 2011. Both men
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 2, 2010
St. Maarten – The Council of Ministers have gotten a lesson in how far they can go when it comes to issuing a Ministerial Decree. They’re learning from an error made specifically by Minister of Economic Affairs, Tourism, Transport & Telecommuni
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 2, 2010
St. Maarten – The Public Prosecutor’s Office in St. Maarten dismissed a record 36.9 percent of the criminal cases it registered last year. Out of 1,079 cases, the office dropped 397, 66 more than it dismissed in 2008. In 2007 the number of droppe
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 2, 2010
St. Maarten - The Court in First Instance sentenced Curacaolenean Urvin Ignatius Pieternella yesterday to 3 years imprisonment for setting up a drug deal involving 27 kilos of cocaine. With the sentence a drugs case dating back more than four years
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 2, 2010
St. Maarten - Minister of Education, Culture, Youth & Sport Rhoda Arrindell says her and the Acting Secretary General have been able to cut at least 50 percent of the Ministry’s budget. The cutting was done in a “point for point and post for po
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 1, 2010
St. Maarten – Live Red. Show Love. With that slogan the HIV/Aids program management team enters the fourth year of campaigning for awareness and a better understanding of the disease. Today is World Aids Day, an appropriate moment to take stock o
St. Maarten News - Posted on December 1, 2010
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, who is the Shareholder Representative for the Telem Group of Companies, intends to review the format of the committee seeking a strategic partner for the company needs to be renewed. She made he
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 29, 2010
St. Maarten---The St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association recognized Dennis Richardson and Richard Gibson sr. for their outstanding contribution and commitment in achieving the new constitutional change for St. Maarten and awarded them with t
St. Maarten News, Uncategorized - Posted on November 29, 2010
St. Maarten - The Central Committee meeting of St. Maarten Parliament of last Friday will continue this afternoon at three o’clock in the A.C. Wathey Legislative Hall to discuss the selection of Members of Parliament for the Parlatino permanent com
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 29, 2010
St. Maarten – The illegal land reclamation behind the old location of the BBW cement factory was already well underway in 2007. Former prosecutor Paul Mooij made an aerial picture of the site available to this newspaper that shows the situation o
French St. Martin News - Posted on November 29, 2010
Marigot, St. Martin – Dozens of people took part in a white march through the streets of Marigot Saturday morning to commemorate murder victim Pascal Delalosa, an employee of the First Deco store located at the Rue de Hollande. The participants, a
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 29, 2010
St. Maarten – Public Works has started executing a road repair program worth 1.6 million guilders (around US$890,000). Yesterday contractor Windward Roads resurfaced large parts of Bush Road between the Shell gas station at the corner of Zagersgu
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 29, 2010
St. Maarten – Minister of Economic and Tourism Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications Franklin Meyers, met with representatives of Curacao’s Meteorological Services to discuss a draft one-year proposal for a service level agreement.
Entertainment - Posted on November 26, 2010
St. Maarten – Eight women of different riding ability and background will put on their first riding show at Seaside Nature Park on Sunday December 5. Entrance is free. The performance will run from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and has a Spanish Fiest
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – Aldo Roberto Santana Rivera, 18, has already been sent back to his native Dominican Republic, but that did not stop the Court in First Instance from sentencing him to 4 months imprisonment for two burglaries he committed on July 30 an
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – A temporary head of the Inspectorate of Public Health will arrive next week to lead the organization until early 2011. Minister of Public Health, Social Development & Labor Maria Buncamper-Molanus said the person will likely serve unt
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – Even though a new postal company has been set up the management of New Post Netherlands Antilles has not ceded control. The five day caretaker Executive Council created St. Maarten Postal Services N.V. (SMPS) to take over the shares
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – The Council of Ministers has approved the set up of a Gazette in which it will publish Resolutions, Ordinances and Ministerial Decrees. The set up is part of the Publication Regulation, which also states that decrees will be numbered
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – Members of Parliament (MPs) had a raging debate on Wednesday and the name of Cassandra Janssen was mentioned more than once. National Alliance (N.A.) MPs queried why the move was being made to appoint Franklin Hanze and Amador Mulle
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – Junior Wayne Gardiner, a 35-year-old Rastafarian from Jamaica, became a free man again after his trial for importing 1,230 grams of marijuana to St. Maarten on October 2. The Court in First Instance sentenced the defendant to 7 months
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – At times it sounded entertaining and almost believable, but in the end Michiel Marcelino Kruythoff, a 51-year-old from Curacao with a serious drug and alcohol addiction who has seen the inside of the courthouse numerous times, had to
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has announced that urgent attention is being given to amongst other things the financial situation at Windward Islands Airways International (WINAIR). She’s tasked Former Aviation Affairs Commiss
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten –Iris Kramer, who works in the Dutch Representation in Philipsburg, recently handed over US$ 4, 000 worth of Bright Ideas Science workbooks to the management of the Christian Hillside School. The books were purchased from the Small Pr
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – An announcement that Inspector Carlton Phillips and the Public Prosecutors Office have reached an agreement does not single an end to the matter. His former attorney Reynold Groeneveldt, now the country’s Acting Governor, says they
St. Maarten News - Posted on November 25, 2010
St. Maarten – Chad Elvyn Depusoir, a 24-year-old from St. Kitts will have some time to regret his visit to St. Maarten, after the Court in First Instance sentenced him to 60 months imprisonment for his role in an armed robbery at the Cuchara Alegre
