PHILIPSBURG, — Member of Parliament Egbert Jurendy Doran made a courtesy visit to the office of the Sint Maarten Development Fund (SMDF) in order to obtain a better picture of the organization’s role in public funding to foundations operating on the island of Sint Maarten. After going out into the various districts over the past weeks, and continuously seeing the urgent needs of the people, MP Doran stated, “I wanted to get a better understanding as to how the various organizations are structured. I therefore started off by visiting the SMDF in order to comprehend what exactly their role is…
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GREAT BAY — Sint Maarten (DCOMM) — It only takes one storm to change your life and community, and therefore as a nation, we need to be prepared, National Disaster Coordinator Fire Chief Clive Richardson said on Tuesday. Office of Disaster Management (ODM), is asking, is your yard ready for the hurricane season? A number of waste haulage companies have published their cleaning schedules especially related to garden and bulk debris and other garbage items that could become a danger to life and property in the event of a hurricane strike. Make sure you separate the aforementioned items (eg bulk…
PORT ST. MAARTEN — Port St. Maarten Senior Management and staff met with Windstar Cruises Executive Sander Groothuis at the Cruise Terminal Building recently to assess the current situation on the Island in preparation for the upcoming 2018-2019 cruise season. Groothuis expressed that he is surprised with the quick recovery throughout the Island and looks forward to homeporting their vessel during the upcoming cruise season. Windstar Cruises homeporting will commence on December 1st, 2018 using Wind Surf that will be offering a seven-day cruise out of St. Maarten. Besides having the Wind Surf homeport on the Island weekly, Port St.…
PORT ST. MAARTEN — Port St. Maarten Senior Management and staff met with Windstar Cruises Executive Sander Groothuis at the Cruise Terminal Building recently to assess the current situation on the Island in preparation for the upcoming 2018-2019 cruise season. Groothuis expressed that he is surprised with the quick recovery throughout the Island and looks forward to homeporting their vessel during the upcoming cruise season. Windstar Cruises homeporting will commence on December 1st, 2018 using Wind Surf that will be offering a seven-day cruise out of St. Maarten. Besides having the Wind Surf homeport on the Island weekly, Port St.…
POND ISLAND — Sint Maarten — Last year on 27 June, the international community celebrated for the first time the Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day. These are enterprises, which generally employ fewer than 250 persons based on international criteria. They are considered as the backbone of most economies worldwide and play a key role in developing countries. Those enterprises, which generally employ fewer than 250 persons, are the backbone of most economies worldwide and play a key role in developing countries. “As Minister for Tourism and Economic Affairs, I would like to take this opportunity to wish the Sint Maarten…
Last week the Board of Police Chiefs, consisting of the police chiefs of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the BES islands, was on a working visit in the Netherlands. The visit of the police chiefs also included a visit to the Royal Marechaussee at Schiphol, the National Operational Cooperation Office (DLOS), Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the Police Academy, the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), the Caribbean info-cel and the High Impact Crimes team (HIC) of the Rotterdam Unit and the Ministries of Justice and Safety and Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations. The mutual cooperation was central to all these visits. On…
POND ISLAND — Sint Maarten — The Board of Financial Supervision of Curacao and Sint Maarten (Cft) will see two of its members namely, Sybilla Dekker and Maria Plantz leaving the aforementioned board. Dekker has been a member of Cft since the summer of 2012. Sybilla Dekker was Minister for Housing, Urban Planning and Environmental Management in the Balkenende II/III cabinet. Plantz has been on the board of Cft since October 1, 2015 and has previously served as vice-chair of the first Corporate Governance Council of Sint Maarten from 2010 to 2014. Plantz has been nominated as State Council for…
Philipsburg – The Department of Culture within the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (MECYS) is pleased to announce that young St. Maarten performing artist Jeremiah David has been awarded with the Department’s first ‘Neville York Talent Scholarship’ in honor of the late and former Department Head of Culture and local musical icon Mr. Neville Chester York. Jeremiah David, a student of Dance since age of 5 at Imbali Center for Creative movement and currently at the National Institute of Arts, is now a 17-year-old student attending the Charlotte Brookson Academy of the Performing Arts (CBA). One month after…
On Tuesday June 26th a missing person report was filed with the police department by Guicindy Glasgow, the guardian of 17 years old Majandra Shanae Danica Duzong also known as Danica. According to her guardian Danica is mentally challenged and resides with her grandmother on A. Th. Illidge Road, Anegada drive #6. The description of Danica is as follows: 1.74 meter tall, average body, brown complexion, brown eyes with brown hair. She was last seen on Monday June 25that approximately 12.00 p.m. on her way to the library. She was wearing black and white stretch pant, red and black tank…
On Friday June 24, 2018, members of the Sint Maarten Lions Club were on hand to donate a cheque for US$ 2,500 to a young Charlotte Brookson student Mr. Jeremiah David. About 1 month ago Mrs. Claudette Forsythe – Labega, the director of CBA, reached on to the Lions Club on behalf of her student requesting a donation to assist Jeremiah to travel to the U.S. where he would attend the Junior Training program at the world, renowned Broadway Dance Center in New York City. The young dancer received a partial scholarship to attend the dance program for a 6-week…
