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PHILIPSBURG:--- After 11 years the Function Book for Justice workers has been approved confirmed Minister of Justice Anna Richardson on Monday.
The Minister of Justice said that the function book took 11 long years since St. Maarten became a country within the Kingdom. Minister Richardson further explained that the new legislation will be published in the Landscourant (National Gazette) in the very near future Read more

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Minister Ottley And His Team Bring Christmas Cheer To Dutch Quarter

VSA Minster Omar Ottley spent the day Saturday helping to bring holiday cheer to children, families and the elderly during a special Community Fun Day at the De Weever property in Dutch Quarter. Ottley is pictured handing out gifts to excited children at the event.

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First Omicron Case Detected On Island

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor VSA Omar Ottley urges all persons who are not vaccinated, to seriously consider doing so.

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Mp Emmanuel To Govt: I Warned You About Coho And Conditions

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel wasted no timeon Fridayto point out that the government of St. Maarten has once again demonstrated its deceit by withholding vital information from Parliament and not being transparent when it comes to the COHO.

Additionally, the MP said its laughable that the government of St. Maarten is all of a sudden acting shocked over provisions in the COHO construct that would severely limit St Read more

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Mp Emmanuel To Govt: I Warned You About Coho And Conditions

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — Independent Member of Parliament Christophe Emmanuel wasted no time on Friday to point out that the government of St. Maarten has once again demonstrated its deceit by withholding vital information from Parliament and not being transparent when it comes to the COHO.

Additionally, the MP said its laughable that the government of St. Maarten is all of a sudden acting shocked over provisions in the COHO construct that would severely limit St. Maarten and infringe on the country autonomy.

Emmanuel made his comments during the Central Committee meeting of Parliament to discuss the 2022 budget Read more

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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 the 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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No Response To Govt. Yet On Miss World Concerns

Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs.

PHILIPSBURG--The Government of St. Maarten has not yet received a response from the Miss World Organisation on concerns about Spain-born, locally-raised Lara Mateo, who was scouted and registered by a licence holder in Guadeloupe and accepted to represent Dutch St. Maarten at the Miss World pageant.< Read more

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Mp Buncamper Concerned About Pjia CooS Dismissal

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — During Mondays central committee meeting of parliament, independent member of Parliament, Claudius Toontje Buncamper fired off a number of questions to the minister of general affairs, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs.

MP Buncamper claimed that he understands that Aruba will be phasing out the 12.5% deduction from civil servants income by 6.25% in 2022 followed by another 6.25% in 2023, and asked the prime minister if she can indicate to parliament when St Read more

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New Chief Prosecutor Appointed For Sint Maarten

THE HAGUE/PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — Prosecutor Hieke Buist has been appointed as Sint Maartens new Chief Prosecutor as of January 1, 2022. The Kingdom Council of Ministers formalized her appointment in its meeting of Thursday, 13 December 2021.

Buist was appointed on the recommendation of Dutch Minister of Security and Justice Ferdinand Grapperhaus and St. Maarten Minister of Justice Anna Richardson.

Buist will succeed current Chief Prosecutor Mirjam Mol who has completed her three-year term as chief prosecutor Read more

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Unemployment Key Focus For Ministry, Says Ottley

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor VSA Omar Ottley says combatting unemployment remains a focal point for the ministry next year.

Ottley gave Members of Parliament (MPs) an overview of the ministrys plans of approach with regard to unemployment in St. Maarten in Parliaments Central Committee meeting on Tuesday.

Ottley said this plan consists of a comprehensive approach in key areas: improvement of the regulatory environment, focus on creating job opportunities and creation of an online portal.

The ministry is implementing the labour legislation and policy-approved Civil Code New Title 10, Book Seven of the Civil Code, replacing Book 7A Read more

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New Chief Prosecutor Appointed For Sint Maarten

THE HAGUE/PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten (16 December 2021) – ProsecutorHiekeBuisthas been appointed as Sint Maartens new Chief Prosecutor as of January 1, 2022. The Kingdom Council of Ministers formalized her appointment in its meeting of Thursday, 13 December 2021.

Buistwas appointed on the recommendation of Dutch Minister of Security and Justice FerdinandGrapperhausand St. Maarten Minister of Justice Anna Richardson.
Buistwill succeed current Chief Prosecutor Mirjam Mol who has completed her three-year term as chief prosecutor Read more

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Pjia Board Calls Meeting To Fire Hyman, Mps Concerned

MIchel Hyman

 PHILIPSBURG--An Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) set for December 23, which has as an agenda point the termination of Michel Hyman as Managing Director of the airport, has caught the attention of Members of Parliament (MPs) Claudius Toontje Buncamper (US Party) and Christophe Emmanuel (independent), wh Read more

Pond Island:--- TelEm Group technicians in the Outside Plant (OSP), along with several TelEm Group contractors, recently completed a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) training course and earned certificates of achievement for their efforts.
The training centered on various aspects of fiber optic installation that are essential to TelEm Group continuing with the rollout of the FTTH infrastructure throughout St. Maarten. This is most important since the works of the main contractor, KNC Networks, is quickly coming to an end later this month.

TelEm Group CEO, Mr Read more

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~MP Buncamper is concerned about PJIA COOs dismissal.~

PHILIPSBURG:--- During Mondays Central Committee meeting of parliament, Independent member of Parliament, Claudius Toontje Buncamper fired off a number of questions to the minister of general affairs, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs.
MP Buncamper claimed that he understands that Aruba will be phasing out the 12.5% deduction from civil servants income by 6.25% in 2022 followed by another 6.25% in 2023, and asked the prime minister if she can indicate to parliament when St Read more

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Unemployment Key Focus For Ministry, Says Ottley

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor VSA Omar Ottley says combatting unemployment remains a focal point for the ministry next year.

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Paris Court Of Justice Throws Out 6-Year Case Against Semsamar

SEMSAMAR President Yawo Nyuiadzi (centre), Director General Laurent Pinsel (left) and lawyer Sbastien Schapira (right) discuss the dismissal of the SEMSAMAR case.  (Robert Luckock photo)

MARIGOT--The St. Martin-based mixed capital company SEMSAMAR has learnt that a six-year investigation into the companys alleged misappropriation Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- On Monday, December 13th the Latin artist Johan Misiedjan from Belgium arrived in Sint Maarten on promotour.
It is the intention that his management team will start an intensive promotion of his music through the media in various Caribbean countries.
The singer of Surinamese origin scored 16 number one hits in his mother country and was number one in the national top 40 of Suriname for no less than 13 weeks with his last bachata hit Mi lobi wi. This hit was also number 1 for three weeks at radio Stanvaste in the Netherlands.
Johan Misiedjan has already released 3 albums and is working on his fourth Read more

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Minister Ottley And Simpson Bay Resort Signs Off On Food And Beverages Training Center

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten — On Monday December 13th, the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, Omar Ottley was invited to deliver a speech at the launching of the Simpson Bay Resort’s food and beverages training center. Minister Ottley signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the Simpson Bay resort on Friday December 10th, which branches off of the Ministers incidental work policy with the aim to strengthen the local work force.

The MOU documents the collaboration agreement between the Simpson Bay Resort and VSA’s National Employment Service Center (NESC), to facilitate the proper training for St Read more

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Quelques Informations Sur Les Festivits De Nol Et Du Jour De LAn :

Illumination de Nol par la Collectivit de Saint-Martin
Nous vous informons que la Collectivit de Saint-Martin a procd, ces derniers jours, la dcoration et lillumination du territoire pour les ftes.
La socit Getelec Elec a pos des nappes lumineuses, rue de la rpublique et langle des rues Kennedy et du Gnral de Gaulle. Les 4 ronds-points ont t illumins (motifs 3D sur les giratoires), 3 sapins gants fabriqus sur le territoire ont t installs lentre de Sandy Ground et de Grand Case Read more

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Wuite Suggests: Make Climate Change An Affair Of Kingdom

Daphina Misiedjan presents as Jorien Wuite (left) looks on.

THE HAGUE--Should climate change become a matter that needs to be regulated at a kingdom level? That was the main question to a mixed panel of politicians and scientists during last weeks InterExpo congress and trade mission in The Hague.

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~ Says support is only given to Miss Saint Martin Committee.~

PHILIPSBURG:--- First Vice President Valerie Damaseau said in an invited comment that the Saint-Martin Tourist Office was not contacted by anyone representing Lara Mateo as the Miss World contestant representing Sint Maarten or Saint Martin.
The First Vice President made clear that the only committee the French Tourist Office supports and rallies behind is the Miss Saint Martin Committee. Damaseau said she does not know who is financing Lara Mateo and she also does not know how she was chosen to be a Sint Maarten contestant Read more

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Your Invited To The Community Fun Day Event On December 18.

PHILIPSBURG (DCOMM):--- Minister Omar Ottley and the Department of Community Development, Family & Humanitarian Affairs (CDFHA), proudly announce and invite the public to a Community Fun Day on Saturday, December 18 at the De Weever Property in Dutch Quarter.

The family fun day kicks off at 10.00 AM to 4.00 PM. There will be a childrens corner, lots of popcorn, cotton candy, a bouncy castle, face painting, Santa Claus, and visitors can win various prizes Read more

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2021 Christmas Scramble At Mullet Bay Golf Course

MULLET BAY, Sint Maarten – It was a peculiar sight on Saturday on the Mullet Bay Golf Course with 84 golfers scattered over Mullet Bay Golf Course in decorated carts, wearing Santa hats and dressed in colorful Santa outfits. But it was a great tournament with serious efforts being made to win.

The annual Santa Scramble organized by the St. Maarten Golf Association was again a tremendous success. This charity event was enjoyed by a good amount of 21 teams of four players each.

After a fierce battle and lots of fun the winner of this years Santa Scramble was the team of Ludovic Brun, Shim Cohen, Jenny Marzi and Alin Brun who ended the 18 holes stroke play event with a total score of 60 low net.

Second prize was won by the team of Tony Lake, Tom Grato, Louis Grato and Joel Soulie with a total score of 61 Read more

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Minister Ottley And Simpson Bay Resort Signs Off On Food And Beverages Training Center

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – On Monday December 13th, the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, Omar Ottley was invited to deliver a speech at the launching of the SimpsonBay resorts food and beverages training center. Minister Ottley signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the Simpson Bay Resort on Friday December 10th, which branches off of the Ministers incidental work policy with the aim to strengthen the local work force.

The MOU documents the collaboration agreement between the SimpsonBayResort and VSA’s National Employment Service Center (NESC), to facilitate the proper training for St Read more

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