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~ State and COM said no permits were issued to block public beaches.~

MARIGOT/PHILIPSBURG:--- A businessman at La Samana Hotel identified as Craig has illegally blocked off the access to a public beach claiming he has received authorization from the state and local government to block off the beach for his private use.
A net has been placed in the water preventing chartered boats and tourists from accessing the beach behind La Samana. Several boat captains that operate chartered tours told SMN News that Craig informed them that they are not allowed to enter behind La Samana beach because they were granted permission to privatize the beach for their own operations.
SMN News contacted the Prefecture of Saint Martin requesting information regarding the permission given to Craig, the American businessman, The communication department said that La Samana and the businessman were not given any permission to block off the beaches that are public beaches Read more

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El Ministro Francs De Ultramar Visita Saint Martin Y Saint Barths

MARIGOT, Saint Martin El Ministro Delegado para los Territorios Franceses de Ultramar, Jean-Franois Carenco, inici el sbado una visita de tres das a St. Martin y St. Barths. Fue recibido en el Aeropuerto Internacional Princess Juliana (PJIA) por el prfet Vincent Berton antes de que la delegacin se dirigiera directamente a Oyster Pond y Babit Point, donde se les unieron el presidente de la Collectivit Louis Mussington y la segunda vicepresidenta Bernadette Davis.

Esta fue la primera visita oficial de Carenco a las dos islas del norte desde su nombramiento en junio 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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Vice Presidents Formed Group To Obtain Information.

~ Enough is Enough and it's better late than never, we were fooled to give up power.~

Marigot:--- Five members of Team Gibbs and members of the Territorial Council have formed a group in order to obtain information from the President of the Collectivity Daniel Gibbs. Those that formed the group are Sofia Codrington Carti, Maude Ascent Gibbs, Annick Petrus, Yawo Nyuadzi, Romeo Piper, and Bernadette Davis.
Also part of the press conference was Steven Patrick who supports the initiative but said he will not be joining the group because he felt that the forming of the group took place way too late while there were signals of lack of communication over two years ago Read more

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