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PHILIPSBURG:--- Ombudsman Gwendolien Mossel recently concluded the Systemic Investigation into the procurement procedure of SZV for the selection of medical aid equipment (glucometers). After providing a Preliminary Findings Report, the Final Report was submitted on 30 December 2021 to the Director of SZV, Mr. Glen Carty. The Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA), Mr. Omar Ottley, was also provided with a copy of the report.

On 26 May 2020, a complaint was filed by a member of the general public regarding alleged faulty glucose testers being allowed as the sole option under the insurance of SZV Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- During the Thanksgiving & National Day of Prayer Services that are held annually on the first Sunday in December following the hurricane season and the second Sunday in January respectively a monetary collection is usually gathered. Over the past few years, food baskets were distributed, and additionally, a cash amount of just over NAF 10 000.00 guilders was accumulated. Together with the Department of Culture and the participating Church organizations consisting of the St Maarten/St Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- The Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, Omar Ottley informs the public, that due to technical problems with the establishment of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the AOV (Old-age pension), and AWW (Widow- and Orphan Insurance) will not be assessed in time to be indexed per January 1, 2022.

Annually, in accordance with the legislation, the amounts of AOV and AWW are adjusted on the basis of an increase in the CPI of the current year compared to the previous year Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Known for being different and innovative, Xtratight Entertainment, famous for Night of the Hit Makers and Christmas Becomes Magical, will be ringing in the New Year in a very different and unique way.
On Saturday, January 8, Xtratight will tickle your funny bone and get you dancing when it hosts Comedy, Tapas & Dance at the Tropicana Ball Room. The event is a combined comedy and dance show featuring the Philosopher of Humor Fernando Clarke and St Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- The male suspect that shot his partner in the Middle Region on Boxing Day was arrested on Monday evening at A.J. C Browers Road without incident.
Police Spokesman Joe Josepha said the suspect was taken to the Philipsburg Police Station where is he is being questioned.
In the meantime, the victim remains in critical condition at the St. Maarten Medical Center, unfortunately, the woman lost he unborn baby due to gunshot wounds in her stomach area.
SMN News learned that the young woman was about 6 to 8 weeks pregnant and her unborn child could not be saved.

Suspect arrested in connection with Basseterre Drive shooting

Over the past 24 hours, the staff of the police major crimes unit has been busy investigating the shooting that took place at Basseterre Drive in Middle Region in which a woman was shot several times on Boxing Day Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:---  On December 10th, 2021 Orco Bank visited The Seventh Day Adventist School and Leonald Conner School to deliver books by the author Tamara Leonard (local author) facilitated by the bank. The objective of this project is to train Readers into Leaders.
Orco Bank believes in the importance and great effect that reading has on children and their future, therefore the bank fosters this practice and helps schools in the vicinity with this objective Read more

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POINTE BLANCHE:---  On Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24, the Simpson Bay Bridge came to life this holiday season after it was decked out with thousands of lights transforming one of the nations key traffic arteries for motorists and sea traffic.
This is the first time that the bridge was decorated and lighted up for the holiday season.
There are also colored changeable lights on the Causeway Bridge for the festive season.
The Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications Hon Read more

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The Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, Omar Ottley stated that while we are noticing an increase in active cases on St. Maarten, the public should not panic. Panic causes sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, and this is when things tend to go out of control.

Minister Ottley urges the public to remember to adhere to the health protocols, administer health passes for establishments, wear your mask, sanitize frequently, limit mass gatherings, and get vaccinated / boostered.

"While I am the Minister of Public Health, I am also the Minister of Labor, and with the country facing dire financial strain, we just cannot afford any lockdowns Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Yesterday, December 23, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs updated Parliament in writing on the postponed decision of the Kingdom Council of Ministers meeting (RMR) regarding liquidity support for the first quarter of 2022. The postponement was confirmed upon request of the governments of St. Maarten, Aruba, and Curaao in instructions to their respective Plenipotentiary Ministers, after the review of the cover letter containing the proposed decision points drafted by the State Secretary Read more

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Telem Group Treats Movie Fans To Latest Matrix Blockbuster.

~Team members of the TelEm Group were on hand to welcome customers to the exclusive premiere viewing of Matrix Resurrections at the Caribbean Cinemas Tuesday.~

Pond Island:--- TelEm Group, in collaboration with Caribbean Cinemas, hosted an exclusive premiere of the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise, Matrix Resurrections to a thrilled audience Tuesday evening.
The premiere was a treat for TelEm Group Mobile customers who were all winners of a raffle held early in the month of December.
All customers had a chance to win tickets to the premiere at Caribbean Cinemas, by purchasing Top-Up of $10 or more between December 1st and 15thin order to be entered into the movie premiere raffle.
According to TelEm Group Residential Manager, Marketing & Sales, Julie Zambrini, Mobile Postpaid customers participated in the fun with a chance to also enter the raffle draw if they settled their bill before December 15th.

 It was a fun TelEm Red Carpet premiere of the movie Matrix Resurrections, with our own staff acting as hostesses to welcome our guests and customers into the theater, said Julie.
The moviegoers got into the spirit of a Hollywood-type movie premiere opening by having their photos taken in the photo booth provided Read more

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Gracita Lauds Road - Workers As Well As The Sint Maarten Port Authority For Their Service To Country St Maarten

PHILIPSBURG:--- Gracita Arrindell states: Several days a week cars swoosh by men and women cleaning our streets, come rain or shine.
Some of these workers wear a hat or some other garment wrapped tightly around their head and face to protect from the blistering sun, from dirt - or grass particles flying around as they go about their tasks Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- "We respectfully disagree with the verdict by the Court and appealed. The 68 pages of the verdict barely give any material consideration to the vast core arguments presented. Instead, matters are brushed off with the Court using the well-known language of not sufficiently stated, not sufficiently explained, not argued, and so forth. One had to be there to know different.

These type of generic statements does not suffice and the Court simply neglected to respond to arguments presented, thereby implicitly ignoring these same arguments Read more

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~ Buncamper filed an appeal, but will be suspended from Parliament~

PHILIPSBURG:--- Independent Member of Parliament Claudius Buncamper has been convicted in the Ruby case that was filed by the Prosecutors Office.
The court convicted the longtime civil servant to 32 months imprisonment and has banned him for a period of 7 years as a civil servant, while his wife Maria Buncamper Molanus has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- With the season and the projected increase in passenger arrivals to St. Maarten, the board of the United St. Maarten Party is concerned with the lack of measures in place to manage passenger experience and questions the much-talked-about benefits of the strategic Alliance with Schiphol Airport.

After all, the CEO of PJIA Brian Mingo makes it a habit to highlight Schiphols level of expertise and experience as far surpassing our local capacity Read more

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Finso Promised To Pay Contractors And Vendors In Time For Christmas.

PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of Labor and Public Health Omar Ottley confirmed on Wednesday at the Council of Ministers press briefing that he received confirmation from the contractors of the New General Hospital that they will try to make the overdue payments to contractors and vendors before the Christmas Holiday.
The Minister also confirmed that several persons contacted him raising concerns about the non-payment from FINSO Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- On Wednesday Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Claudius Toontje Buncamper fired off a letter to the minister of general affairs,
Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs in which he pointed out that, in his opinion, the process to hire a new department head of VDSM
(Vieiligheids Dienst St. Maarten or National Security Services of St Read more

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A Job Well Done, Minister Of Justice, Anna Richardson.

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Board of the National Alliance and all its members alike would like to disseminate a heartfelt congratulations to our Honorable Minister of Justice, Ms. Anna Richardson in achieving this great feat on behalf of country Sint Read more

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~Academy records 100 percent school passes and 96 percent college passes~

 Cul de Sac:---  Ninety-five students of St. Maarten Academy graduated under the theme: Out of Adversity Comes Triumph, held on the schools campus on Thursday, December 16, 2021.

Of the 95, 72 were Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) graduates and 23 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exams (CAPE) graduates. The graduates were praised during addresses from Principal drs. Tallulah Baly-Vanterpool, President of the school board Roland Duncan, CSEC valedictorian Khushal Punjabi and CAPE valedictorian David Beek Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- President of the board of the United St. Maarten Party (USP) Cecil Nicholas on Monday said his board is baffled over why to date the mandatory 12.5% cut imposed by government on civil servants and workers of government-owned companies, specifically GEBE and Telem, has not been followed up with an instruction to ensure that the savings be used as a supplement to directly offset the bills of every citizen in the country Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- After 11 years the Function Book for Justice workers has been approved confirmed Minister of Justice Anna Richardson on Monday.
The Minister of Justice said that the function book took 11 long years since St. Maarten became a country within the Kingdom. Minister Richardson further explained that the new legislation will be published in the Landscourant (National Gazette) in the very near future Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- St. Maarten requests postponement of the Kingdom Council of Ministers (RMR) decision that was scheduled to be taken today, to approve the deviation for the budgetary norms of article 15 of the Rijkswet Financieel Toezicht (Rft). The Netherlands made the granting of the deviation conditional on St. Maartens political approval of the Note of Amendment to the Consensus Kingdom Law COHO, in an effort to force consensus. Additionally, the State Secretary included excerpts of the said amendment as decision points for the RMR, thereby circumventing the Parliaments of the Kingdom from debating this aspect of the law Read more

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Pond Island:--- TelEm Group technicians in the Outside Plant (OSP), along with several TelEm Group contractors, recently completed a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) training course and earned certificates of achievement for their efforts.
The training centered on various aspects of fiber optic installation that are essential to TelEm Group continuing with the rollout of the FTTH infrastructure throughout St. Maarten. This is most important since the works of the main contractor, KNC Networks, is quickly coming to an end later this month.

TelEm Group CEO, Mr Read more

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~MP Buncamper is concerned about PJIA COOs dismissal.~

PHILIPSBURG:--- During Mondays Central Committee meeting of parliament, Independent member of Parliament, Claudius Toontje Buncamper fired off a number of questions to the minister of general affairs, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs.
MP Buncamper claimed that he understands that Aruba will be phasing out the 12.5% deduction from civil servants income by 6.25% in 2022 followed by another 6.25% in 2023, and asked the prime minister if she can indicate to parliament when St Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- On Monday, December 13th the Latin artist Johan Misiedjan from Belgium arrived in Sint Maarten on promotour.
It is the intention that his management team will start an intensive promotion of his music through the media in various Caribbean countries.
The singer of Surinamese origin scored 16 number one hits in his mother country and was number one in the national top 40 of Suriname for no less than 13 weeks with his last bachata hit Mi lobi wi. This hit was also number 1 for three weeks at radio Stanvaste in the Netherlands.
Johan Misiedjan has already released 3 albums and is working on his fourth Read more

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