Sint Maarten Christian Democratic Coalition Accord Signed
PHILIPSBURG-Formateur for the 2018 - 2022 government and leader of the United Democratic Party (UD), Theodore Heyliger officially signed the governing program for his new government on Friday June 22 along with his coalition partner and Leader of ...
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Dear Reader
We will be having a new government on Monday.
Just in time. Because the economy in St. Maarten is at a precarious point.
The limbo effect caused by uncertainty about another possibly super-active hurricane season -
which luckily has been down-played since the actual start of the official hurricane season on June 1st due to the El Niño effect - and the paralyzing effect this has had on business was augmented by the uncertainty of when a new government with a mandate to actually govern would replace the interim-ministers who were handicapped by their temporary status and limited ability to engage in long term decision-making and implementation of critical measures needed to get the economy going.
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Review LuminAID Packlite Max, a Solar Powered Phone Charger
ST. JOHN'S ESTATE - The Wizards, specializing in computer repairs and onsite services, is now the official reseller for an environmentally-friendly product that has a very unusual feature: A solar powered LED lantern that is a phone charger as...
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Governor receives final report from Theodore Heyliger
Philipsburg - Harbour View - On June 22, 2018, His Excellency the Governor of Sint Maarten, drs. E.B. Holiday, received the final report from formateur Theodore Heyliger. The formateur has accepted the commission to form a new government...
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Act. Minister of VROMI calls on boat owners to remove wrecks
POND ISLAND - Sint Maarten - Minister of Justice Cornelius de Weever, who also acts in the absence of the Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (Ministry VROMI), hereby informs all boat owners, that they are ...
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APS to offer 100% financing with no down payment for homes
Signs construction contract for ORYX residences to be completed in 12 months On Monday June 18th, Algemeen Pensioenfonds Sint Maarten (APS) signed the construction agreement with contractor Liccom NV for the construction of its new housing...
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Annual hurricane season clean-up underway
GREAT BAY - Sint Maarten (DCOMM) - Ministry of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Development and Infrastructure (Ministry VROMI), hereby informs the community that the annual hurricane season clean-up has started by the various waste haulage...
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A Delta Plan for St. Maarten
By Hilbert Haar ~ Actions speak louder than words; that thought came to mind during the 7th annual Governor's Symposium, this time with climate change as its central theme. The time to act is now, I heard. The sea level is rising and if we wait ...
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It's not the winning that counts
by Chris Morvan You can tell when the World Cup is on because suddenly the world goes Brazilian. People who you know for a fact have never been within 1,000 miles of Rio de Janeiro have got that distinctive flag flying from their car. And why do...
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Self-insurance as a financial planning option
We wrote an article inspired by the debate about the payout and settlement policies of insurance companies on St. Maarten in the aftermath of hurricane Irma. Should Self-Insurance now be an option worth considering for those who have the resources?
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StMaartenNews.com Police News
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Official information on explicit video-clip
The Police Department is making the following information known. Between June 18th and June 22nd 2018 there has been a video-clip posted and circulating on Social Media regarding two individuals (male and female) involved in a very explicit...
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Reward posted for information
Philipsburg - On June 6th2018 at approximately 12.10 a.m. an armed robbery took place at the Jump-Up Casino in Philipsburg. Three (3) armed men stormed into the casino brandishing a least two (2) firearms. During this robbery two (2) innocent...
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Police seeking help in criminal investigation
Detectives are still busy investigating a criminal investigation called "GUADELOUPE" This investigation is regarding a shooting which took place in the evening hours of December 21st 2017 on Guadeloupe road located in Madame Estate during which...
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Shooting on Union Road
The Detective Department is presently investigating a shooting which took place on Tuesday June 19th in the mid-evening hours on the Union road in the vicinity of the Pet Shop. Police patrols were directed to the scene to investigate what had...
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StMaartenNews.com Government News
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Lee Elaborates On Process For Reconstruction Work Permits
In the Council of Ministers press briefing of Wednesday June 20th, the Minister of Public Health, Social Development & Labor, Emil Lee elaborated on the efforts of the Ministry in relation to the granting of work permits based on AB 2013 nr 73...
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Prime Minister's address to Parliament on NRRP St. Maarten
PHILIPSBURG, June 21, 2018 - Madam Chair, After months of intensive preparations, I'm pleased to present two important documents to Parliament today: (1) the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Sint Maarten, and (2) the Temporary Ordinance...
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StMaartenNews.com Entertainment News
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Grand Re-opening! Caribbean Cinemas Megaplex 7 in Cole Bay
COLE BAY - Grand Re-opening! Caribbean Cinemas Megaplex 7 at Cole Bay, St. Maarten Caribbean Cinemas announced the re-opening of the Cole Bay cinema complex in St. Maarten, which was closed for 10 months due to the damages caused by Hurricanes...
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StMaartenNews.com Local News
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No Hand Outs visit MLK
Dutch Quarter - The No Hand Outs movement visited the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Primary School (MLK) on Tuesday morning. Trent Webster one of the founding members and chairman visited the Group 7 class as a motivational guest. "This movement is...
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Grace period 2018 @ the Library
PHILIPSBURG - (June 20th, 2018) - It is summer vacation again and the Philipsburg Jubilee Library would like to notify the general public of its grace period. As of Monday June 25th until Saturday July 7th, 2018 the grace period will commence....
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EPIC to Host Sunset Kayak Event around the Lagoon
SINT MAARTEN (SIMPSON BAY) - Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC) is continuing its popular Kayak Tours to start off the summer with a bea...
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Fire department issues fire warning due to dry spell
GREAT BAY - Sint Maarten (DCOMM) - The Fire Department which falls under the Ministry of General Affairs, is calling on the community to be very conscious by not throwing out lighted cigarettes or matches that could result in bush fires due to...
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StMaartenNews.com Culture News
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St. Martin's new Fantasies recommended summer reading ...
GREAT BAY - St. Martin (June 19, 2018) - Fantasies-Love-making poems by Fabian Adekunle Badejo is now a recommended summer reading book in the USA, said Jacqueline Sample of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP), the book's publisher. Small Press...
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Registration Now Open for EXPO section at #SPORTSMATTER...
SINT MAARTEN (POND ISLAND) - The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport in collaboration with the National Sports Institute (NSI) is happy to announce to all Sport, Fitness and Healthy Lifestyle Businesses on the island that the...
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Nature Foundation Visits Several Elementary Schools ...
Last week, during St Maarten Shark Week, Nature Foundation staff visited several Elementary schools to educate children about sharks and their importance to both the natural and human environment. The Foundation visited the following five...
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Department of Culture Hosts Emancipation Day Celebration
Philipsburg - On Sunday July 1, 2018, the Department of Culture within the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (MECYS) will be hosting its Annual Emancipation Day Observances. This year's theme is entitled "The Water Remembers..."....
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StMaartenNews.com Education News
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Ministry of ECYS introduces Safety and Emergency Guidelines
Philipsburg - The official 'Safety and Emergency Response Guidelines for Schools' (SERG) was dispatched this week by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport to all schools as one policy within the larger MECYS Resilience Plan. The...
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StMaartenNews.com Health News
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Children and adults need more exercise
Almost half of the Netherlands four to 12-year-olds are not getting the amount of exercise they should, according to new research into the nation's health by national statistics office CBS. Official guidelines say children should have at least an ...
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A dose of preventive health
I attended the conference 'Kombersa Salfi' (Health Dialogue) organized by Fundashon Prevenshon in celebration of their tenth anniversary. It was a very well-organized event; guests were first warmly welcomed to the foyer, where they enjoyed a...
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CPS Men's Health 2018: Living a healthier life and more...
GREAT BAY - Sint Maarten (DCOMM) - The lack of physical activity is seen as a health threat. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around the world, not enough people are active; one in four adults and four out of five adolescents are ...
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CPS: Get vaccinated against measles and rubella ...
GREAT BAY - Sint Maarten (DCOMM) - The Collective Prevention Services (CPS) is calling on those who plan to travel to the 2018 FIFA World Cup during the next four weeks to ensure that the are up-to-date with all their vaccinations, including the...
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StMaartenNews.com Dutch Caribbean News
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SFC concludes successful working visit to Saba and Statia
Philipsburg - The project advisor of the 'Samenwerkende Fondsen Caribbean or SFC' ('Cooperating Foundations for the Dutch Caribbean') on Sint Maarten, whom caters to the islands of Sint Maarten, Saba and Statia with providing funding...
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Refinery seeks temporary operator to replace PDVSA
WILLEMSTAD - The public company Refineria di Korsou (Curaçao Refinery) is seeking a company to immediately replace Venezuela's state-run PDVSA as operator of the 335,000-barrel-per-day facility, which has been largely idled due to a lack of crude ...
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Dutch Sandwich 2.0: the most successful and dangerous...
"Helmin Wiels is neither the first nor the last they killed" By Nardy Cramm, blogger and chief editor of Knipselkrant Curacao WILLEMSTAD - Recently it is exactly 25 years ago that the then prime minister Maria Liberia-Peters and the minister of...
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State Secretary Blokhuis visits the Caribbean
State Secretary Paul Blokhuis (VWS, Health, Welfare and Sport ) will visit a number of care facilities on Saba and St. Eustatius from Thursday June 21st to Wednesday June 27th, 2018. All health care, elderly care and child welfare in the...
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ACM Adjusts maximum variable electricity tariffs on...
The fuel needed to produce electricity has become more expensive. That is why the Authority for Consumer & Markets (ACM) has increased the maximum rate that the distributors, Water and Energy Company WEB N.V., St. Eustatius Utility Company N.V. ...
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Hotel website Booking.com moves into new territory,...
Amsterdam-based Booking.com is expanding its activities with the aim of becoming a complete travel 'department store.' Customers from around the world will be able to book flights, attractions, food and drink offerings as well as local travel...
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Minister signals shift to train travel; two million trips...
Some two million journeys between the Netherlands and nearby European cities will be made by train rather than plane within the next five years, if junior transport minister Stientje van Veldhoven has her way, the NRC said on Friday.
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Consumers group hauls 1,000 fake websites from the net
Dutch consumers lobby group Consumentenbond has succeeded in forcing a further 1,000 fake websites targeting Dutch consumers offline since March, the organisation said on Thursday. SIDN which registers domain names in the Netherlands told...
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Work in progress: retirement age in the Netherlands up
People in the Netherlands retired on average five months later in 2017 than they did in 2016, as the state pension age continues to rise. Last year, the average retirement age was 64 years and 10 months, the national statistics agency CBS said on ...
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Eighth Oil Discovery Made Offshore Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Thursday June 21, 2018 - US oil giant ExxonMobil has announced it has struck oil offshore Guyana yet again this time at the Longtail-1 exploration well. This represents eight out of ten successful exploratory wells for the...
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Barbados Government Seeks Access to Loans from IDB
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday June 21, 2018 -Prime Minister Mia Mottley says her Government will seek to access millions of dollars in loans that had already been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), but which the former...
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3 Questions for the CEO: Anthony Ali of Goddard Enterprises
This week we hear from Anthony Ali, CEO of Goddard Enterprises 1. You have a unique perspective from where you sit. What excites you most about the region? And what depresses you? I'm excited about the region's prospects.
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New Telecoms Company in Barbados Facing Possible Takeover
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday June 21, 2018 - Less than a year after setting up shop in Barbados, telecommunications company Ozone Wireless is facing possible takeover by its competitor Flow. Online newspaper Barbados Today said it had been...
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Weather Forecast: Sunday to Tuesday
DATE ISSUED: Saturday June 23, 2018 @ 18:00 LST (22:00 UTC) VALID UNTIL: Sunday evening (18:00 LST) June 24, 2018 ...A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ST. MAARTEN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE... WEATHER: Tonight through Sunday evening: Partly...
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Motorbike gang member arrested for firing anti-tank missile
A 41-year-old motorbike gang member has been arrested for firing an anti-tank missile at an office block housing the Panorma and Nieuwe Revu magazines late on Thursday evening. The man, who was arrested at 6am, is said to come from Woerden and,...
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One woman dead, policeman injured in fire in Utrecht...
One person was killed and a police officer seriously injured after fire broke out in a block of flats in the Kanaleneiland neighbourhood of Utrecht on Thursday evening. Video footage shows the police officer climbing out of a second floor window...
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Dutch students win robot world football cup
The Netherlands might not be present at the World Cup in Russia but students at Eindhoven University of Technology have taken the world RoboCup title after beating a Portuguese team 1-0 at the final in Montreal. It is the fourth time the...
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D66 Thom de Graaf to head up Council of State advisory body
Thom de Graaf, a former D66 minister, Nijmegen mayor and a current senator, has been appointed deputy president of the...
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