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Sandy Ground Bridge To Open Sunday, Ahead Of Schedule

Sandy Ground Bridge

MARIGOTThe Sandy Ground Bridge will re-open this Sunday, September 5, at 8:00am as work undertaken by the contractor SOGETRAS has been completed ten days ahead of schedule without any major difficulties.

  By adapting the execution procedures, the company will be able to carry out the finishing and adjustment work without impacting daytime road traffic.

  President Daniel Gibbs praised the teams in charge of the work for their speed and efficiency Read more

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~ Meeting with President Gibbs and Prefet Serge Gouteyron next week~

 MARIGOT:--- Protestors supported by their unions and the Collectif took more aggressive actions on Friday and called on the drivers of the heavy equipment's block all roads in and around Saint Martin.
The entrance into Marigot thru Bellevue border point, Agrement Round About, Mount Valois, and La Savannah are some of the areas that were blocked completely.
The more aggressive actions started when the strikers and their unions could not reach a consensus with President Daniel Gibbs, on Friday Read more

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Ministry Of Justice And General Affairs Holds First National Youth Delinquency Symposium From Monday - Wednesday

PHILIPSBURG:---The Minister of Justice, Anna Richardson, in collaboration with the Ministry of General Affairs, has organized a National Youth Delinquency Symposium with the theme: A Call to Action; The State of Our Youth.

The community is invited to join the NYD symposium on the Government of Sint Maarten Facebook page.

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PHILIPSBURG:--- On Tuesday, August 31, four civil servants of the Department of Legal Affairs graduated from the University of Curacaos School of Law Sint Maarten Division. The Certified Legislative Lawyer course completed by the civil servants was organized by the Caribbean Center for Legislation in Sint Maarten, Curaao, and Aruba. The aim of the course is to enable the participants to work as legislative lawyers in each of the three Caribbean countries, in principle in any policy area. Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs Silveria Jacobs, Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport drs Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- The Minister of Public Health, Social Development, and Labor, Omar Ottley extends his heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the three (3) victims who passed away due to COVID-19. Much strength to the families during this time.

As of September 2nd, there were twenty-nine (29) persons who tested positive for COVID-19; however, thirty-four (34) persons have recovered; bringing the total active cases to two hundred fifty-seven (257) Read more

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No More Payroll Support For Businesses In Default

Finance Minister Ardwell Irion

PHILIPSBURG--Businesses that failed to live up to the agreement for receiving payroll support will not be receiving any further support for the coming months, Finance Minister Read more

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Minister Of Justice Anna E. Richardson Hosts Justice Sector Essay Contest Winner Ceremony

Philipsburg, Sint Maarten —Today, Monday, August 30, Minister of Justice Anna E. Richardson hosted the Justice Sector Essay Contest Ceremony for 6 secondary school students at the Government Administration Building who all won a chance to spend a day at their chosen department and received certificates of appreciation. Present during the ceremony were Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs, the students, their parents and department heads within the justice sector Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- The work carried out by the Collectivity and its provider Sogetras on the Sandy Ground Bridge has been done without major difficulties.
Everything has been done to activate the site and cause as little inconvenience as possible to users, so that the bridge will be able to reopen to road traffic as of Sunday, 10 days ahead of the forecast work schedule.
By adapting the execution procedures, the company is able to complete the finishing and tuning work without impacting daytime traffic.
Accordingly, the bridge will be reopened to road traffic this Sunday, September 05 at 8 pm.
President Daniel Gibbs salutes the teams in charge of the construction site for their involvement in the service of users.
However, it should be noted that in order to make the installation settings, one-time road traffic closure sessions will be scheduled before 30 September Read more

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Mp Emmanuel: Govt. Too Comfortable With Increasing Tax Burden On People, Businesses

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Christophe Emmanuel on Tuesday said he still cannot understand how a government that professes to care about its people is so comfortable and still unable to realistically tackle the issues that would improve their standard of living, but prefer to look at new ways to inflict more tax burden directly and indirectly upon them.

In this context, the MP referred to the Minister of Finance Ardwell Irions tax-reform presentation on Monday to Parliament as a presentation of nothing Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Member of Parliament (MP) Claudius Buncamper of the USP Faction in parliament voiced his concerns about the report of a firearm and drugs found in a students school bag during a random search by the schools authorities.
According to the article that appeared in the Daily Herald of Wednesday, September 1st, the student is now behind bars.
MP Buncamper, however, turned his attention in this matter towards the Minister of Education, Rudolphe Samuel, who during the 2021 budget debate in parliament, informed parliamentarians of his restructuring plans for schools, including the one where the unfortunate incident took place.
While these plans are yet to be put in place, the MP noted that security services, which the school management requested, have been removed from the school, leaving teachers and students fearing for their safety as fights and brawls take place on the schools premises and on the public roads with no security insight Read more

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Committee Of Public Health, Social Development And Labor To Meet With The Minister Of Vsa To Discuss The Food Assistance Program And Community Outreach Initiatives.

PHILIPSBURG:---The Committee of Public Health, Social Development, and Labor, of Parliament will meet on September 2, 2021.

The Committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 10.00 hrs. in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelminastraat #1 in Philipsburg. The Minister of Public Health, Social Development, and Labor will be in attendance.

The agenda point is:
Food assistance program and community outreach initiatives (IS/646/2020-2021 dated May 10, 2021)
This meeting was requested by MP S.A Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- The Sint Maarten Lions Club donated a pair of eyeglasses to two students from two primary schools on Saturday last. The two proud recipients were 8-year-old Dulcianna Browne of Sister Borgia school group 5 (grade 3), and Nehemiah de Weever of Marie Genevieve de Weever school of group 4 (grade 2) primary schools. Making the presentation was President of Sint Maartens Lions Club Ms. Linette Gibs and Chairman of the Health Committee Lion Richard Gibson Jr Read more

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Digital Covid Certificate (Dcc) Now Live

PHILIPSBURG--The Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor VSA Omar Ottley announced the launch of the Digital COVID Certificate (DCC) during the live Council of Ministers press briefing on Wednesday.

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~ People criticize government and Minister of Justice they have done --- Richardson.

PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of Justice Anna Richardson shared serious concerns over the arrests of several students who have been busy breaking the law since the reopening of schools.
The Minister said that a student has been arrested for narcotics possession and a pellet gun while in school, another was arrested for narcotics possession in school while two students are in police custody for causing serious bodily harm to another student Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- The Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, (VSA) Omar Ottley hereby informs the public of the launch of the Digital COVID Certificate (DCC). The Digital COVID Certificate is an EU initiative that will help citizens move freely and safely within the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic. The EU Digital COVID Certificate contains a QR code with an encrypted signature to protect against falsification Read more

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Teen Times Welcomes Delinquency Symposium, Re-Submits 2013 Report

Teen Times re-submitted its 2013 report on youth delinquency to the Ministry of Justice.

PHILIPSBURG--The writers of the youth publication Teen Times on Monday welcomed the initiative by Minister of Justice Anna Richardson to host a national youth delinquency symposium and have re-submitted its 2013 report on the same subjec Read more

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Marlin Suggests Aps Financing For New Parliament Building

MPs during Mondays meeting.

PHILIPSBURG--Given the existing burdens facing the country, National Alliance (NA) Member of Parliament (MP) William Marlin suggested on Tuesday that the legislature consider financing the constructi Read more

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Broker: Real Estate Tax For Non-Residents Can Damage St. MaartenS Reputation

PHILIPSBURG--Introducing a real estate tax on non-residents, who purchase property in the country can severely damage St. Maartens reputation as a trustworthy destination to invest in, says real estate broker Arun Jagtiani, of Island Real Estate.

  Jagtiani was at the time responding to part of a presentation made by Finance Minister Ardwell Irion in Parliament on Monday regarding tax reform for the country Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Christophe Emmanuel on Tuesday said he still cannot understand how a government that professes to care about its people is so comfortable and still unable to realistically tackle the issues that would improve their standard of living, but prefer to look at new ways to inflict more tax burden directly and indirectly upon them.
In this context, the MP referred to the Minister of Finance Ardwell Irions tax reform presentation on Monday to Parliament as a presentation of nothing Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Last Saturday, August 28th, District Governor, District 60B, Lion Claudio Buncamper PMJF presided over his 1st Cabinet Meeting(virtual) of the Lionistic year 2021-2022 which began on July 1st. The Meeting was hosted by the Sint Maarten Lions Club at the Lions Civic Center, making history for the Club which celebrated its 50th anniversary of service last year.
In her welcome remarks to the virtual delegates, President of the Sint Maarten Lions Club, Lion Linette Gibs expressed that the Sint Maarten Lions Club, the home Club of the District Governor, was honored to have had the opportunity to host the 1st Cabinet Meeting and wished everyone a fruitful and successful meeting.
The meeting which took place via Zoom and the world wide web via YouTube covered various topics, including presentations of financial and administrative reports of the district and discussions on initiatives for membership growth as well as service projects planned for the Lions and Leo Clubs in the more than 20 English-speaking islands of the Caribbean that form District 60B Read more

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Exclusive: Attorney At Law Safira Ibrahim Resigns From Nv Gebe Board Of Directors.

~ SBOD is now a minority board with two members.~

PHILIPSBURG:--- Attorney at Law Safira Ibrahim submitted her resignation from the board of directors of NV GEBE. Ibrahim was contemplating on whether or not to resign since last week, it was expected that she was going to submit her resignation prior to the court hearing on Friday, however, SMN News has been reliably informed that the resignation letter was submitted on Monday.
Currently, the SBOD of NV GEBE consists of two members namely the chairlady Nina Diaz and Conrad Richardson, the two members attended the court hearing on Friday where the plead notes of the plaintiff were not presented to the court but was leaked by WhatsApp over the weekend, including the resignation letter of former board member Kenneth Serrant.  The articles of incorporation of the Government-owned company clearing state that the SBOD must have at least 3 members or a maximum of 7 members.
The Shareholder heard the SBOD on Friday after the court procedures Read more

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Mixed Reaction To IrionS Tax Reform Presentation

PHILIPSBURG--There was mixed reaction from Members of Parliament (MPs) to the tax reform presentation delivered by Finance Minister Ardwell Irion on Monday.

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Today, Monday, August 30, Minister of Justice Anna E. Richardson hosted the Justice Sector Essay Contest Ceremony for 6 secondary school students at the Government Administration Building who all won a chance to spend a day at their chosen department and received certificates of appreciation. Present during the ceremony were Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs, the students, their parents, and department heads within the justice sector Read more

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ImfS Fad Recommends Gaming, Real Estate Tax, Excise Duty On Diesel, Unhealthy Items

Finance Minister Ardwell Irion in Parliament on Monday.

PHILIPSBURG--A number of recommendations from the International Monetary Funds (IMFs) Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) for new tax areas that can be introduced in St. Maarten are currently under discussion.

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