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PHILIPSBURG: --- Justice workers will receive a 25% advance payment as early as today April 26th, 2023, Minister of Justice Anna Richardson announced at the weekly press briefing on Wednesday. The Minister said that the Council of Ministers met with the unions over the weekend to discuss and determine the particulars of the payments which are based on the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2019.
Justice workers already received 50% advance payments based on the 2019 MOU, after receiving this 25% it will bring the total payment to 75% while the other 25% will go towards the payment of taxes and other dues owed to the government or USZV Read more

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Jacobs: Children Under 15 Do Not Belong In A Jump-Up

PHILIPSBURG--Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs on Wednesday issued a firm call on parents to take their responsibilities seriously, stating that children under the age of fifteen should not be participating in jump-ups.

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PHILIPSBURG:--- Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs has a stern message for parents of underage children that are attending the carnival jump-up. Jacobs said that she has seen the videos of the opening Jump Up that was held last weekend and took note of the children that were part of the jump. She made clear that children under 15 do not belong in a public dance party (JUMP UP) Read more

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Man Who Lost Foot Had Jumped Into Water To Swim To Water Taxi

A screen grab of the scene after the man was pulled from the water.

 PHILIPSBURG--The tourist whose lower right foot was severed by the blades of a water taxi propeller during a horrific accident on Tuesday, had jumped into the water and was swimming to the vessel when he was sucked under the back of the boats platform resulting in the mishap.

He did not fall between the boat and the pier while either exiting or embarking the vessel as was previously reported to this newspaper by police spokesperson Ethelwoldus Josepha on Tuesday.

A video of the incident shows the man, a passenger of the Ubersoca Cruise that had been visiting the island, swimming to the water taxi and when he attempted to climb onto the back of the boat he slipped off, was sucked under the boat, which led to screams by persons on the boat Read more

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Pm Jacobs States Personal View: Financial Independence Before Actual Independence

Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs was the only minister present at Wednesdays live Council of Ministers press briefing.

PHILIPSBURG--Prime Minister Silveira Jacobs believes that St. Maarten should attain a level of financial independence where it can take care of itself and its people before striving for actual independen Read more

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Four Countries Sign Mutual Regulation

Prime Ministers Evelyn Wever-Croes of Aruba (left), Gilmar Pisas of Curaao (second from left), Silveria Jacobs of St. Maarten (right) and State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Digitalisation Alexandra van Huffelen (second from right) holding up the Mutual Regulation that they just signed in The Hague on Tuesday. (Ministry of BZK photo)

THE HAGUE--The legal basis for a sustainable collaboration to execute reforms in the public sector of the Dutch Caribbean countries has been created with the signatures of Prime Ministers Evelyn Wever-Croes of Aruba, Gilmar Pisas of Curaao, Silveria Jacobs of St Read more

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St. Maarten, Unops Ink Host Country Agreement

Front row from left: Ayana Tyrell, Legal Policy Advisor, Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Sint Maarten; Anna Richardson, Minister of Justice; Silveria Jacobs, Prime Minister of St Maarten; Lilian Nyangaya, Chief Finance Office, UNOPS; and Jessica Naish, Senior Executive Associate to the Executive Director, UNOPS.

PHILIPSBURG/COPENHAGEN--Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs and Acting Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Jens Wandel signed the Host Country Agreement, which is a treaty that establishes the cooperation framework for the implementation of projects headed by UNOPS in St Read more

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Grisha Suggests Independent Vetting Of Kingdom Laws Before Kingdom Conf.

Independent MP Grisha Heyliger-Marten.

PHILIPSBURG--In a comprehensive and detailed letter to Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs on Monday, independent Member of Parliament Read more

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~With the establishment of a UNOPS office in Sint Maarten, the first project to be developed under this cooperation framework will be the design of the Sint Maarten Rule of Law Facilities~

COPENHAGEN, Denmark:--- The Honorable Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs of Sint Maarten, Ms. Silveria E. Jacobs, on behalf of the Government of Sint Maarten, and Acting Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Mr. Jens Wandel signed the Host Country Agreement, which is a treaty that establishes the cooperation framework for the implementation of projects headed by UNOPS on Sint Maarten Read more

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3,908 De-Registered In Civil Registry Clean Up

Source: The Daily Herald

PHILIPSBURG — A total of 3,908 persons have been de-registered from St. Maartens Civil Registry as part of the clean-up process of the registry.

Members of Parliament (MPs) received the information from Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs, who was responding to a question during the public meeting of Parliament on the 2023 budget last week.

Jacobs said the project to clean up the Civil Registry began in September 2022 and entails the clean-up of the basic administration system Read more

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