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Artist Claudio Arnell Unveils New Artwork For Marigot Cemetery

Claudio Arnell revealed his new photographic artwork Digital Vegetal Wall 2 at a gathering next to the Marigot cemetery on Friday evening. In photo: Claudio Arnell (left) and Second Vice President Bernadette Davis (right) unveiling one of the works of art.  (Robert Luckock photo)

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Chokehold Movie Delivers The Message That Domestic Violence Is Unacceptable

The Chokehold cast at the Friday press conference: from left; Simeon Henderson, Enyinne Nwigwe, Director Joel Ayuk (standing), Kenneth Okolie, Oremeyi Kareem, and Sherando Ferril. (Robert Luckock photo).

 MARIGOT--Timed to coincide with International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women, the premiere of locally-produced and -directed film Chokehold, written and directed by Joel Ayuk, took place at Caribbean Cinemas on Saturday night with the main actors in attendance.

Replicating a Hollywood premiere with red carpet, photo calls and a VIP reception, the international cast were dressed to the nines for the occasion.

Among prominent personalities from the community, Vice Presidents of the Collectivit Alain Richardson, Bernadette Davis and Dominique Louisy were present to support the film, as well as Territorial Councillor Martine Beldor.

Anticipating a large turnout, the 1-hour film produced by CANI TV Studios was shown in two theatres Read more

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Gastronomy Village Opening, An Eagerly Awaited Festival Highlight

The Gastronomy Village on the waterfront is declared open on Friday with ribbon-cutting by festival patron Chef Patrick Jeffroy as Tourism Office President Valrie Damaseau (left), President Louis Mussington (centre) and Second Vice President Bernadette Davis (right) look on Read more

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Future Of Former Cultural Centre Discussed At Fq Public Meeting

The Cultural Centre, before Hurricane Irma in 2017. (Robert Luckock photo)

MARIGOT--President Louis Mussington and his elected colleagues, Vice Presidents Bernadette Davis and Read more

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Board Of Institute Of Statistics And Economic Studies Installed

ITSEE Chairman Alain Richardson with Vice President Ida Zin Ka Ieu.

MARIGOT--The first board of directors of Institut Territorial de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques de Saint-Martin (ITSEE) was chosen on June 2 at an election chaired by the boards oldest member, Second Vice President Read more

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Campaign Launched At Lyce To Encourage Waste Sorting

Vice President of the Collectivit Bernadette Davis (third left) talks to a class of Lyce students at Cit Scolaire Robert Weinum at the launch of an awareness campaign on sorting waste and recycling. Looking on are Director of Environment, Water and Energy Laurent Guillaume (left), Charge de Mission Analle Rapy (second left), Davis, Lyce Principal Olivier Saunier (second right) and Vice Recteur representative Stphanie Brouwers (right) Read more

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Expedition Crew Spreads Awareness Of Protecting Oceans From Plastics

Scientist Marion Hingant (left) and Captain Patrick Deixonne in the lab of the Expedition schooner. (Robert Luckock photos)

Information stands were set up on the shoreline next to Marina Fort Louis.

  The 26-metre 7th Continent Expedition schooner visited Marina Fort Louis on May 6 and 7.

MARIGOT--Explorer Patrick Deixonne and his crew of schooner 7th Continent Expedition were at Fort Louis Marina, Marigot, May 6-7 to raise awareness among the public of the urgent need to preserve the oceans and to stress the importance of sorting waste, the first barrier against marine pollution.

The name 7th Continent comes from areas in the worlds oceans where there is a particularly high concentration of plastics driven together by currents, effectively forming their own continents.

This was the sixth educational tour and the very first edition in the Antilles-Guyana region Read more

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Helmet Distribution Comes With Strong Message To Save Lives

President Louis Mussington presents a young man with a helmet, as Director of Cabinet Services at the Prfecture Julien Marie (second right) and Territorial Councillor Raphal Sanchez look on during the distribution in Sandy Ground Friday. (Robert Luckock photo)

MARIGOT--The Collectivit in conjunction with the Council for Security and Delinquency Prevention (Conseil Local de Scurit et de Prvention de la Dlinquance CLSPD) distributed free crash helmets to young people in Sandy Ground on Friday evening.

President of the Collectivit Louis Mussington, Second Vice-President Bernadette Davis, Territorial Councillors Martine Beldor and Raphal Sanchez were joined by the Prfectures Director of Cabinet Services Julien Marie to deliver to an assembled group of youngsters a strong message on safety and protection when riding two-wheelers.

Davis reminded that three deaths alone this year from two-wheeler accidents have plunged families into mourning.

You are the new generation; you have to contribute to the country and build it Read more

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Mussington Team Marks Year In Office With Major Review

Winning team. Front row, left to right: Michel Petit, Bernadette Davis, Dominique Louisy, Valerie Fonrose, Annick Ptrus, Audrey Gil, Raphal Sanchez, Bernadette Venthou-Dumaine, Steven Cocks, Martine Beldor. Back row, left to right: Alain Richardson, Daniel Arnel, Valrie Damaseau, Louis Mussington Read more

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Tri-Partite Agreement Signed For Clean-Up Of Grand let

President Louis Mussington (centre), Nature is Key President Juliette Irish (left) and Conservatoire du Littoral representative Anne-Marie Bouill (right) during the signing. Looking on is Collectivit second Vice President Read more

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French Overseas Minister Visits St. Martin, St. Barths

Minister for the French Overseas Territories Jean-Franois Carenco (left) discusses the Sargassum threat at the ferry departure area in Cul-de-Sac Bay with Prfet Vincent Berton (right), Prfecture Secretary-General Fabien Ss (second right) President Louis Mussington (third left) and Vice-President Bernadette Davis (second left) Read more

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Second Vice-President of the Collectivit Bernadette Davis. (Robert Luckock photo)

MARIGOT--Second Vice-President of the Collectivit Bernadette Davis is reluctant to talk about tourism, given it is not part of her already very demanding cadre de vie (living environment) portfolio, but consented to impart some of her thoughts on the state of the French side while discussing other subjects in the news.

  A tourism industry veteran for many years and former French-side tourism office director, Davis admitted she is very concerned that hotel and room inventory on the French side is severely depleted and that outside investors are as elusive as ever.

  Currently the only positive hotel opening news is Le Beach (new name pending) on the road to Sandy Ground, set to re-open in October 2023 following a 40-million-euro renovation Read more

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First Sargassum Steering Committee Installed As Members Met Wednesday

At the Sargassum press conference on Wednesday were (from left) head of the Collectivits Environment Department Laurent Guillaume, Vice-President of the Collectivit Bernadette Davis, Secretary-General of the Prfecture Fabien Ss, and Florian Mioni, responsible for the biodiversity mission with DEAL. (Robert Luckock photo)

MARIGOT--As foreseen in the national plan 2022-2025, the first Sargassum Steering Committee for St Read more

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Mussington: WeVe Lost Control Of The Management Of Semsamar

Opposition Councillors Louis Mussington and Bernadette Davis. (Robert Luckock photo)

MARIGOT--Opposition leader and Movement for Justice and Prosperity (MJP) President Louis Mussington spoke out Tuesday to reporters on what he described as the devastating consequences of implementing a new management structure for Semsamar which ironically, he said, led to operational cost skyrocketing, chiefly due to high salaries of new executives, compared to cost before 2018.

Mussington claimed a victory when the administrative court ruled in his favour on February 13 and annulled two Territorial Council deliberations that he had challenged Read more

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Chinese delegation impressed with island’s ‘beauty, ethnicity’

MARIGOT--“The competitive nature of the global market place demands that we act global and think global. We must sell our assets of stability, ease of access and ease of doing business.”

Those were some of the remarks made by Founder and CEO of Invest Caribbean Now (ICN), Felicia Persaud, in her keynote address at Friday’s exclusive invitation-only conference in the Chamber of Commerce on the theme “Investing in St. Martin’s Tourism Product”.

“Partnerships, collaborations, linkages, networking…that’s the key to the success of businesses, economies, governments, because from where I sit there is no way that any government on any island is smart enough to do it alone,” she added Read more

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