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FREEDOM PARTY [Freedom] In The News 2016

Source: 721 News
27 Dec 2016 12:46 PM

Mp Connor Spreads The Joy Of Christmas To Three Organizations

PHILIPSBURG – Member of Parliament (MP) Claret Connor, was spreading the meaning of giving at Christmas time.

The MP delivered cooked turkeys and hams to the I Can Foundation, Key to Freedom Rehabilitation Center and New St Read more


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Source: The Daily Herald
20 Dec 2016 08:19 PM

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REMARKS AT THE SWEARING IN CEREMONY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT

by His Excellency drs. Eugene B. Holiday, Governor of Sint Maarten

Harbour View, Sint Maarten December 20, 2016

Vice-Chairman of Parliament, Members of Parliament, Prefette of Saint Martin and St. Barths, Prime-Minister, Ministers,Vice-President of the Collectivity of Saint Martin,Vice-president of the Joint Court of Justice,Distinguished Guests,

Good Morning,

On September 26th, 2016, the people of Sint Maarten went to the polls and elected a new group of parliamentarians Read more


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Source: SMN-News
20 Dec 2016 12:45 PM

REMARKS AT THE SWEARING IN CEREMONY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT
by His Excellency drs. Eugene B. Holiday
Governor of Sint Maarten

Harbour View, Sint Maarten
December 20, 2016

Vice-Chairman of Parliament, Members of Parliament
Prefette of Saint Martin and St. Barths
Prime-Minister, Ministers,
Vice-President of the Collectivity of Saint Martin
Vice-president of the Joint Court of Justice
Distinguished Guests,
Good Morning,
On September 26th, 2016, the people of Sint Maarten went to the polls and elected a new group of parliamentarians Read more


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Source: 721 News
17 Dec 2016 01:21 PM

Update: “Cuchi’S” Brother Tito Set Free By Judge Of Instruction

UPDATE: ~Arrest procedure deemed unlawful~

BELVEDERE, Sint Maarten (Update 13:45 pm) – Tito Fortune regained his freedom after the Judge of Instruction found there were irregularities in his arrest procedure.

Fugitive Kathron “Cuchi” Fortune’s brother Tito was arrested on Wednesday, December 14, in Belvedere. A search of his home followed, but nothing was found at in the home that could directly incriminate him in the disappearance of the two missing men.

Spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office Gino Bernadina and his lawyer Remco Stomp confirmed to 721news that Tito was set free on Friday, December 16.

721news clarifies the story of his arrest:
On the same day Tito regained his freedom, Police issued a press release stating that they had arrested T.J.F Read more


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Source: 721 News
17 Dec 2016 03:52 AM

Youth Policy Plan Stakeholders Session Organized By Department Of Youth

PHILIPSBURG – The Department of Youth hosted a consultation session with stakeholders to discuss the Integrated Youth Policy Plan (IYP) on Friday, December 9, at the University of St. Martin (USM).

The purpose of the consultation session was to discuss relevant areas concerning youth development on St. Maarten as well as strategies for effective implementation as outlined in the draft document.

Welcome statements were given by Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Culture Youth and Sport Jorien Wuite and head of the Department of Youth Read more


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Source: SMN-News
16 Dec 2016 05:01 PM

Integrated Youth Policy Plan Stakeholders Consultation Session Organized By The Department Of Youth.

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Department of Youth hosted a consultation session with stakeholders to discuss the Integrated Youth Policy Plan (IYP) on Friday, December 9th, 2016 at the University of Sint Maarten. The purpose of the consultation session was to discuss relevant areas concerning youth development on St. Maarten as well as strategies for effective implementation as outlined in the draft document. Welcome statements were given by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Culture Youth and Sport, Ms Read more


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Source: The Daily Herald
10 Dec 2016 06:05 AM

Court Finds Wilders Guilty Of Inciting Racial Discrimination

AMSTERDAM--Strong reactions have erupted after right-wing politician Geert Wilders was found guilty of inciting racial discrimination against Dutch Moroccans in a court on Friday. Wilders was condemned for his actions leading a Party for Freedom PVV rally calling for “fewer” Moroccans in March 2014 -and now has a criminal record- but he received no punishment from the three judges.Read more


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Source: SXMIslandTime
01 Dec 2016 04:42 AM

Thousands Of Cubans Gather To View Caravan Bearing Fidel Castro’S Ashes

MATANZAS, Cuba — When the motorcade carrying Fidel Castro’s ashes approached this northern shore town’s Freedom Plaza on Wednesday, the crowd lining the sidewalks, benches, rooftops, balconies and even window bars started to chant his name.

“Yo soy Fidel!” (“I am Fidel!”), hundreds of people shouted in Spanish. “Viva Fidel!” (“Long live Fidel”).

Some carried Cuban flags, many held smartphones to record the moment, and a few cried Read more


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HOPE
Source: 721 News
29 Nov 2016 11:30 PM

Victorious Living To Feature Artwork Of Local Artists At Awards

COLE BAY – The countdown is on for Victorious Living’s Leader Worth Following Awards on December 3.

At this first Leader Worth Following Awards, VLF will recognize and award Dame Asha Stevens-Mohabier, Ambassador Alicia Liverpool, and posthumously, Officer Gamali Benjamin as leaders worth following. Mhakeda Shillingford, Jim Housen and Roy Cotton, Jr., who were among the finalists, will also be recognized at this event.

Keynote speaker for is certified John C Read more


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Source: 721 News
15 Nov 2016 02:00 AM

Usa: Citizens’ Right To Film Police Activity In Public Places

Organizations, media support citizens’ right to film police activity in public places in the United States

MIAMI, Florida (November 14, 2016)—The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today added its support to the insistence that American citizens’ right to film and photograph police activity in public places must be protected under the free speech provision contained in the country’s First Amendment.

This right was denied in February this year to two citizens from Philadelphia by a federal judge who ruled that the action of filming and photographing police officers is not a matter covered by freedom of expression, unless the person doing so is actively participating in the event that is being recorded.

The case is related to two separate incidents that occurred in 2013 and 2012 in which those concerned, Rick Fields and Amanda Geraci, were approached or detained for filming or taking photographs of police officers.

At an initiative of the organization Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 32 United States and international organizations and media came out in support of the Fields and Geraci case against the City of Philadelphia with an amicus brief in which it is argued that the videos and photographs made by private individuals, as in this case, are for the news media a very important source for informing the public about matters of news interest.

The amicus brief adds that “many stories are not only enhanced by citizen-generated content, but may well have never been told without it.”

In that same sense IAPA President Matt Sanders and the chairman of the organization’s Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, Roberto Rock, felt that this an issue of great relevance.

Sanders, of Deseret Digital Media, Salt Lake City, Utah, explained that “the importance lies in the fact that precisely the content in social media with kind of denunciations by citizens have on many occasions been turned into the source of news for the media.”

For his part Rock, of La Silla Rota, Mexico City, Mexico, added that “it is imperative that there be encouraged and protected the right of all citizens – not just journalists – to freedom of expression in order to disseminate and seek information, as is contemplated in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

The amicus brief also declares that the judge’s decision differs from the position of senior United States judicial authorities that have recognized the right contemplated in the First Amendment to photograph and record on video police in public places, independent of the purpose or intention of the citizens.

In addition to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the IAPA supporting the amicus brief were the American Society of News Editors, The Press Association, Association of Alternative Newsmedia, Association of American Publishers, Inc Read more


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Source: 721 News
10 Nov 2016 11:09 PM

Address Of Pm William Marlin On St. Martin Day

Fellow St. Maarteners, Brothers and sisters, Family all.

Many rains ago, when I was a teacher, I asked my class to write about what St. Martin Day meant to them. One shy, little boy, whose name I can’t remember now, wrote in his assignment the following: “St. Martin Day is the day for the people of this island to come together as family and enjoy each other and remember those who have gone before us.”

That simple answer stuck in my mind up till now because it captures the essence of what we are supposed to be celebrating today Read more


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Source: SMN-News
09 Nov 2016 09:53 PM

Fellow St. Maarteners,
Brothers and sisters,
Family all.

Many rains ago, when I was a teacher, I asked my class to write about what St. Martin Day meant to them. One shy, little boy, whose name I can’t remember now, wrote in his assignment the following: “St. Martin Day is the day for the people of this island to come together as family and enjoy each other and remember those who have gone before us.”
That simple answer stuck in my mind up till now because it captures the essence of what we are supposed to be celebrating today Read more


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Source: SXMIslandTime
09 Nov 2016 09:27 PM

Pm William Marlin St Martin Day Address

PHILIPSBURG St. Maarten - Fellow St. Maarteners, Brothers and sisters, Family all. Many rains ago, when I was a teacher, I asked my class to write about what St. Martin Day meant to them. One shy, little boy, whose name I can’t remember now, wrote in his assignment the following: “St. Martin Day is the day for the people of this island to come together as family and enjoy each other and remember those who have gone before us.”

That simple answer stuck in my mind up till now because it captures the essence of what we are supposed to be celebrating today Read more


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Source: SXMIslandTime
04 Nov 2016 08:02 AM

Historic Film Made In Barbados Will Have World Premiere In Toronto On November 12Th!

TORONTO, Ontario - ERROL BARROW:FREEDOM FIGHTER will screen for the first time on Saturday, November 12 at 8 p.m. at INNIS TOWN HALL CINEMA, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto.

This docudrama is a passionate story about the courage of one man who relentlessly preached a gospel of economic self reliance and self respect to the people of his native country Barbados and the Caribbean. He defied the status quo, confronted racism and classicism, fought colonial oppression and selflessly led his people to political and economic freedom Read more


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Source: 721 News
27 Oct 2016 09:49 PM

Charges Draw A Bleak Picture Of Sex-Business

By TODAY NEWSPAPER

GREAT BAY – The suspects in the Parrot-investigation are charged with exploitation, robbing prostitutes at the Casa Blanca brothel of their freedom and firearm possession.

From the summonses it appears that they recruited woman as barmaids, waitresses or exotic dancers and that they put them to work in prostitution through coercion, violence, threatening with violence, fraud and by misleading them.

The women had to pay $50 up to $60 a day, or $500 per week for a room they had to share with others and where they had to live and work.

Casa Blanca charged the women with $1,500 up to $3,500 for their labor contract, work permit and airfare to St Read more


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HOPE
Source: SMN-News
10 Oct 2016 12:40 PM

Fellow St. Maarteners,
Residents of our beautiful island,
Ladies and Gentlemen.

Six years ago, St. Maarten embarked on a new constitutional journey with the attainment of the status of the autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was a journey that started with the referendum of 2000; a journey that took a whole decade. Six years ago, we lowered the flag of the Netherlands Antilles forever and kept our own flag flying. We had arrived at 10-10-10 full of pride, full of enthusiasm and eager to meet the high expectations of our people.
Critics of that achievement may point to the fact that those expectations have not been fully met Read more


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UPP
SMCP
Source: SXMIslandTime
23 Sep 2016 05:29 PM

Up Party Urge Citizens To Let Democracy Reign In Wake Smcp Candidate Stoning

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten — The United People’s party has issued a call on the community to “let democracy reign in our country” following the stoning of the candidates on the St. Maarten Christian Party SMCP in Belvedere, Wednesday night.

Leader of the UP Party and Member of Parliament Theodore Heyliger said he and the rest of the UP Board and candidates were utterly shocked and disappointed to learn that such malevolent behaviour could be mated out by people on the “friendly island.”

The UP party issued a press release on Thursday in which Heyliger was quoted saying, “Since the time of my grandfather the late Dr Claude Wathey, our country has had a proud and healthy political campaign Read more


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SMCP
Source: 721 News
22 Sep 2016 02:30 AM

Unknown Culprits Attacked Smcp Candidates And Supporters With Rocks During The Public Meeting On Wednesday Night

~SMCP attacked at Belvedere public meeting -party refuses to be silenced~

BELVEDERE, Sint Maarten — The St. Maarten Christian Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of projectiles and missiles that were hurled at party candidates during a meeting in Belvedere on Wednesday night.

At about 9:15 pm huge rocks were flung over the perimeter fence of the Belvedere Community Centre from a dark area sending party supporters and onlookers scampering for cover Read more


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SMCP
Source: 721 News
22 Sep 2016 02:30 AM

Unknown Culprits Attacked Smcp Candidates And Supporters With Rocks During The Public Meeting On Thursday Night

~SMCP attacked at Belvedere public meeting -party refuses to be silenced~

BELVEDERE, Sint Maarten — The St. Maarten Christian Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of projectiles and missiles that were hurled at party candidates during a meeting in Belvedere on Thursday night.

At about 9:15 pm huge rocks were flung over the perimeter fence of the Belvedere Community Centre from a dark area sending party supporters and onlookers scampering for cover Read more


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Source: The Daily Herald
15 Sep 2016 05:08 AM

Minister Opposes Re-Division Of Coast Guard’S Expenses

THE HAGUE--Dutch Minister of Defence Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert advised on Wednesday against the two motions of Party for Freedom PVV in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament to have a new division key for the expenditures of the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard.

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HOPE
Source: SXMIslandTime
09 Sep 2016 01:31 AM

Prime Ministers Of Barbados & Jamaica Hold Talks

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart and Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness today discussed the state of bilateral relations between the two countries via telephone.

The discussions took place against the background of two recent incidents related to Jamaican travellers to Barbados and came a day after Prime Minister Stuart received the Letter of Introduction of the new non-resident High Commissioner of Jamaica to Barbados, His Excellency David Prendergast, at his Ilaro Court residence Read more


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HOPE
Source: SXMIslandTime
09 Sep 2016 12:28 AM

Tzu Chi Continues Rice Relief, 611 Bags Of Rice Given To 605 Families

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - The St. Maarten Tzu Chi Foundation continued its massive “love rice” relief distribution programme in August donating 611 bags of rice to 605 families around the island in that month.

The foundation estimates that the number of family members that will benefit from last month’s relief is almost doubled at 1,735. Each bag of rice weighs 10 kilograms. August rice distribution brings the total amount of rice Tzu Chi has distributed since the programme started just over two months ago to1,141 bags of rice to 1,084 families.

  The relief effort in August was possible thanks to the participation of the foundation’s committed volunteers who set aside time to visit families in the various districts to make the distribution Read more


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Source: 721 News
23 Aug 2016 06:41 PM

Freedom Of The Seas Cancels Due To Anticipated Inclement Weather In The North Eastern Caribbean

PORT ST. MAARTEN – Port St. Maarten has been informed that the scheduled visit of Freedom of the Season on Thursday, August 25 has been cancelled due to the anticipation of inclement weather expected in the North Eastern Caribbean in the coming days.

The measure was taken out of abundance of safety by the cruise line Royal Caribbean for their passengers, crew and the vessel.

Port St Read more


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Source: SXMIslandTime
07 Aug 2016 12:47 PM

Regional Media Group Urges St Vincent To Rethink Cybercrime Legislation

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The regional umbrella media group — the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) — yesterday expressed concern about a push by St Vincent and the Grenadines to address legitimate issues associated with harmful online content through legislation.

The ACM said that such a move “tramples on important principles associated with freedom of expression and freedom of the press”.

It noted that some of its international partners, including the International Press Institute (IPI), Reporters Without Borders, and the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD), have recently addressed in fair detail offending sections of the Cybercrime Bill of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

“We endorse their positions on such matters Read more


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