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Government Meets School Bus Owners

School Bus Owners Association representatives on the left and Prime Minister William Marlin, Minister of Education Silveria Jacobs and Ministry ECYS representatives. (DComm photo)< Read more

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Government Meets School Bus Owners

PHILIPSBURG--Prime Minister William Marlin, Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports (ECYS) Silveria Jacobs and Ministry ECYS representatives met with School Bus Owners Ass Read more

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School Bus Association Not Happy With New Gov’T Rules

Minister of Education Silveria Jacobs. (File photo)

PHILIPSBURG--“Our livelihood is being threatened by the current sitting Government,” read a statement by St. Maarten School Bus Owner’s Association (SBOA) on Monday after it received word about the changes made by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports re-eva Read more

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Jacobs Says Challenges In Public Education Have Her Full Attention

PHILIPSBURG--Education Minister Silveria Jacobs said last night that the challenges in public education have her full “attention, concern and priority.”

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Assaults High Among Youth Crime In Study

PHILIPSBURG--Former Minister of Justice Dennis Richardson commissioned an investigation on juvenile crime on the island because regular concerns have been expressed about the increase in juvenile delinquency in St. Maarten, while the official data from the Prosecutor’s Office and the police does not reflect this increase.

The research was done over a three-month period from December 2014 to February 2015, and was conducted by Emma Merckx and Lieke Buurman, both graduates Master Youth Law Read more

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 It felt like a party walking into Educare’s SXMDOET project. Volunteers assisted in making the foundations playground child friendly, safe, fun and colorful. (Photo credit: Claudia Vingatama-Arrindell)

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PHILIPSBURG – Sint Maarten’s community came out in full force for the second annual SXM DOET event held on March 11th and 12th. Around 1000 volunteers successfully completed 43 projects registered by 30 various organizations from all around the Dutch side of the island Read more

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