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NapbS Actions Counterproductive After 11 Years Of Struggle, Says Richardson

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Justice Anna Richardson says she refuses to further engage in deceitful games played by police union NAPB St. Maarten.

  Richardson took note of an article that was published by the Board of the NAPB on December 20, and an additional statement release by the union on December 21.

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Usp Questions The Benefits Of Strategic Alliance With Schiphol

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – With the season and the projected increase in passenger arrivals to St. Maarten, the board of the United St. MaartenParty is concerned with the lack of measures in placeto manage passenger experience and questions the much-talked-aboutbenefits of the strategic Alliance with SchipholAirport.

Afterall, the CEO of PJIA Brian Mingo makes it a habit to highlight Schiphols level of expertise and experience as far surpassing our local capacity. So one would have expected that a strategic plan would be in place to address future growth and current passenger experience, instead of the reestablishment of a vision already brought to reality by our local experts for 40 million dollars less, President of the USP board Cecil Nicholas said.

Nicholas lamented the long lines outside of the terminal now being experienced by visitors to the country, some 4 years after hurricane Irma. Additionally, he questioned what exactly has been accomplished at PJIA since the government, Schiphol and Ballast Nedam shared a toast in August this year 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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Academy Records 100 Percent School Passes And 96 Percent College Passes

Cul de Sac, St. Maarten — 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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Deviation Of The Budgetary Norms Linked To Approval Note Of Amendments Coho Legislation

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 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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Ottley Says Colombia No Longer Accepts Unvaccinated Patients

~ Urges persons to get COVID-19 vaccination ~

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor VSA Omar Ottley urges persons to take note that Colombia is not accepting patients who are not vaccinated.

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Mp Buncamper Questions Pm On Appointment Of New Vdsm Head.

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – 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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** Travel Requirements Scheduled To Change As Of January 1St 2022; Applicable For Persons 18 Years And Up **

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA) Omar Ottley hereby informs the publicthat, given the rapid worldwide spread of the Omicron variant, SintMaarten will be implementing various protective measures.

With Omicron fast becoming the dominant variant in numerous countries, the following changes to Sint Maarten’s entry protocols will go into effect as from Saturday January 1st 2022 for all incoming travelers to Sint Maarten. 

Unvaccinated persons will require a 48 hour PCR test, while persons who received both doses of an approved COVID vaccine will require a 48 hour PCR test or a 24 hour antigen test 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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Knops: Jacobs Was Incorrect

~About there being a carte blanche for new conditions~

THE HAGUE--St. Maarten Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs erroneously stated that the Netherlands in the future will receive a carte blanche to set new conditions for liquidity support.

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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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Emmanuel Wants Ottley To Investigate Disturbing Reports At Hospital Project

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Monday said that it has been brought to his attention that something is amiss with the ongoing construction/expansion of the St. Maarten General Hospital (SMGH) and has called on Minister of Health Omar Ottley to investigate the matter and inform Parliament and the public accordingly.

Emmanuel said for the past few weeks little to no work has been executed at the project site, with key players in the project reportedly unhappy with the fact that they have not been paid Read more

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Usp: Invisible Savings From 12.5% Cuts Do Nothing For Socioeconomic Hardships

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — President of the board of the United St Read more

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Ministry Of Justice Function Book Established By National Decree

Minister of Justice Anna Richardson signed the National Decree establishing the Function Book on December 20, calling it a monumental day.

PHILIPSBURG--Governor Eugene Holiday and Minister of Justice Anna Richardson have approved and signed the National Decree containing the General Measures, thereby establishing the completed Function Book 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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Emmanuel Wants Ottley To Investigate Disturbing Reports At Hospital Project

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel on Monday said that it has been brought to his attention that something is amiss with the ongoing construction/expansion of the St. MaartenGeneral Hospital (SMGH)and has called on Minister of Health OmarOttleyto investigate the matter and inform Parliament and the public accordingly.

Emmanuel said for the past few weeks little to no work has been executed at the project site, with key players in the project reportedly unhappy with the fact that they have not been paid Read more

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Us Party: Invisible Savings From Cuts Do Nothing For Socio-Economic Hardships

Cecil Nicholas

PHILIPSBURG--United St. Maarten Party (US Party) board president Cecil Nic Read more

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Usp: Invisible Savings From 12.5% Cuts Do Nothing For Socioeconomic Hardships

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – President of theboard of the United St. Maarten Party(USP)Cecil Nicholas on Monday said his boardis baffled overwhyto date the mandatory 12.5% cut imposed by government on civil servants and workers of government owned companies, specifically GEBE andTelem, has notbeen followed up with an instruction to ensure that thesavingsbe used as a supplement to directly offset the bills of every citizen in the country.Headded: Obviously because the savings, a motivation used to impose the cuts, have not materialized and people lives were made harder for nothing.

Nicholas said the budget of country St 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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