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Dp Statia Slams Dutch Govt. Reaction To Evaluation Report

THE HAGUE/STATIA--The formal response of the Dutch Government to the Caribbean Netherlands constitutional evaluation report was met with criticism by the St. Eustatius Democratic Party (DP).

The Optimal Functioning Of Cadaster Not A Priority Of This Na Government

The general public of St. Maarten has been complaining about the long delays that exist now at the office of land measurements and registration of mortgages. The Cadaster Office at one point was a department of the Central Government of the former Netherlands Antilles and became a foundation. The Cadaster became an operation that you could depend on as certificate of admeasurements and other services were flowing smoothly.

Over the last year we are seeing these services of this prestigious foundation deteriorate to the point where the general public is suffering Read more

Mp Lake Joins The United St Maarten Party

~ ” MP Matser is welcome to join the USP ” Leader of USp Frans Richardson said ~

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten – MP the Honorable < Read more

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Lake Joins Forces With Frans' Usp

PHILIPSBURG--Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Maurice Lake announced on Sunday his candidacy with the United St. Maarten Party (USP) for the September 26 Parliamentary Elections.

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Mp Lake To Run With Usp In Upcoming Parliamentary Elections

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - MP the Honorable Maurice Lake Sunday confirmed that he will run in the next Parliamentary elections with the USP Party which is headed by MP the Honorable Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Member of Parliament Maurice Lake has put all rumors to rest at a press conference on Sunday when he joined the leader and members of the United People’s Party (USP) and announced that he will be contesting the September 26th elections on the USP slate Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:---The Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Silveria Jacobs together with the Department of Culture hosted an award ceremony on Friday May 13th in honor of the Pioneers of the Carnival Village. Minister Jacobs outlined the historical account of the Carnival Village in her speech.

The Genesis of St. Maarten Carnival Village

Forty six years (46) ago, the late Lt Read more

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The Optimal Functioning Of The Cadaster Not A Priority Of This Na Government.

PHILIPSBURG:---- The General public of St. Maarten has been complaining about the long delays that exist now at the office of land measurements and registration of mortgages. The Cadaster Office at one point was a department of the Central Government of the former Netherlands Antilles and became a foundation. The Cadaster became an operation that you could depend on as certificate of admeasurements and other services were flowing smoothly.
Over the last year we are seeing these services of this prestigious foundation deteriorates to the point where the general public is suffering Read more

Culture Ministry Honours Carnival Village Pioneers

PHILIPSBURG--The persons responsible for starting the Carnival Village some 46 years ago were honoured by Government during a ceremony on Friday.

Minister of Culture Silveria Jacobs gave inspiring words to family members about eight persons who opened the first booths in the Carnival Village. The man who spearheaded a fact-finding mission to St Read more

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Minister Jacobs Extends Condolences To Family Of Zahir Edwards

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports Hon. Minister Ms Silveria Jacobs

PHILIPSBURG – The Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Silveria Jacobs extended condolences to the family, friends, teammates and loved ones of Zahir Edwards, who passed away on Wednesday, May 11, after collapsing while playing basketball, his lifelong dream, at the L.B Read more

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Iconos Del Carnaval De St. Maarten Serán Homenajeados Este Viernes

Traducido por Máximo Castro

Philipsburg, Sint Maarten – La Ministro de Cultura, Silveria Jacobs ha revelado la realización de una ceremonia para mañana viernes en honor a los iconos de Carnaval San Martín. Los “honraremos a ellos el viernes próximos, aquí en el Salón Legislativo Claude Wathey por ser los iniciadores (de carnaval),” dijo la ministra Jacobs Read more

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Heyliger: ‘La Pérdida  De Competitividad En El Mercado De Cruceros Es Consecuencia Directa De La Inestabilidad Gubernamental.

Traducido por Máximo Castro

PHILIPSBURG.- Ningún inversionista del área de turismo podría estar interesado en establecer relaciones con un destino afectado por un cambio constante de gobierno, y ningún país puede desarrollarse adecuadamente si las políticas y los planes son cambiadas constantemente dependiendo de hacia donde cambia el viento político, manifestó el martes el parlamentario Theo Heyliger, líder del Partido del Pueblo Unido, UP por sus siglas en inglés.

El líder del UP Party, dijo que el reporte de calificaciones del país, entregado al Parlamento por representantes de la Asociación de Cruceros de Florida y el Caribe (FCCA) el lunes, debe servir como una llamada a todos los sectores de San Martín que expresa la gravedad de la situación Read more

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GEBE Supervisory Board claims in court that MPs working behind scenes to control the Supervisory Board.

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Court of First Instance in its ruling on Wednesday ordered that Shareholder representative of GEBE to come to a proper agreement as to when they will hold the meeting to dismiss the remaining three members of the Supervisory Board of Directors. That meeting will be held on May 26th 2016. However, the Shareholder and the Supervisory Board will be meeting on May 19th 2016 to appoint the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) William Brooks Read more

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Icons Of St. Maarten Carnival To Be Honored This Friday

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — Minister of Culture Silveria Jacobs has disclosed that a ceremony will be held on Friday to honor the icons of St. Maarten Carnival. “We will be honoring them on Friday upcoming, right here in the Claude Wathey Legislative Hall for being the initiators (of carnival),” Minister Jacobs said. “It all started with the former, late Lt Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Five members of The Rotary Club of St. Maarten Mid Isle recently returned from the Annual District 7020 Conference and President's Elect Training which was held in the Atlantis Resort in Nassau, Bahamas.

Attendance at this event offered the incoming president and secretaries of all Rotary clubs in the district an opportunity to learn more about Rotary and to prepare for the upcoming Rotary year which starts on July 1, 2016. Incoming president Veronica Jansen-Webster and incoming secretary Kishor Mirchandani attended the conference with Assistant District Governor Louis Wever, President David Antrobus and Rotarian Denise Antrobus.

The highlight of the conference was the awards ceremony in which the District Governor awarded the clubs for the work they have done in their respective communities Read more

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"I will not waste time with critics but instead work with people that can bring solutions to the country’s problems”

PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of VROMI Angel Meyers who just returned from the United States told members of the media that the delegation he travelled with which was headed by Prime Minister William Marlin visited a waste to energy plant in New York in order have such a facility constructed on St Read more

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Parliament Debating No Confidence Motion In Government

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The leader of the main opposition Barbados Labour Party, (BLP), Mia Mottley, Tuesday described the Freundel Stuart government as being “incompetent,” accusing it also of running the country by “stealth” and bringing the island to its knees economically and otherwise.

Mottley, piloting a motion of no confidence in the government, said that the circumstances in which Barbados has found itself cannot be borne for much longer.

“We cannot have a gover Read more

Dutch & French Side Hospital Cooperation Steadily Increasing

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - The recent fire at the French side hospital which caused four wards to be evacuated , is a validation that the French and Dutch side hospitals need to work together, and increase their level of cooperation in healthcare.

Minister of Public health, Social Development & Labor Emil Lee stated: “The recent fire at the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital in Marigot has made a number of beds unavailable Read more

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Leadercast 2016: Inspirational And Transformational

GREAT BAY, St. Martin - Local leaders and aspiring leaders left the Belair Community Center inspired, invigorated and recharged after Leadercast, the world’s largest one-day leadership conference, broadcast LIVE from Atlanta and simulcast to hundreds of locations around the world on May 6th, 2016.

            Leadercast was hosted by Victorious Living Foundation (VLF) which empowers, enlightens and reconciles individuals, couples, families, organizations and communities, for the fourth consecutive year Read more

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Hirsch Ballin Defends Kingdom Parliament

~ Former Minister at first George Maduro lecture ~

LEIDSCHENDAM--Former Dutch Minister of Antillean and Aruban Affairs for the Christian Democratic Party CDA Professor Ernst Hirsch Ballin made a case on Tuesday for the introduction of a Kingdom Parliament in which the Dutch Caribbean countries are duly represented, as well as a Dispute Regulation (“geschillenregeling”). “Havi Read more

Heyliger: ‘Loss Of Cruise Competitive Edge Direct Result Of Govt. Instability’

PHILIPSBURG--No investor wants to have ties with any destination with a constant change of the people in charge and no country can properly develop if policies and plans are changed constantly with the political wind, said United People’s (UP) leader Member of Parliament Read more

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Dutch & French Side Hospital Cooperation Steadily Increasing

Dr. Felix Holiday (general surgeon), Drs. Fenna Arnell( head of the Dept. of Public Health), Mr. Antonio Pantophlet (Manager of patient care, SMMC),Emil Lee (Minister of VSA), Kees Klarenbeek (Director of SMMC), Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- The recent fire at the French side hospital which caused four wards to be evacuated , is a validation that the French and Dutch side hospitals need to work together, and increase their level of cooperation in healthcare.
Minister of Public health, Social Development & Labor Emil Lee stated: “The recent fire at the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital in Marigot has made a number of beds unavailable Read more

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Sarah Concerned About Shrinking Middle Class

PHILIPSBURG--The country’s “shrinking middle class” is cause for concern, says Democratic Party (DP) leader Member of Parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams.

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