PHILIPSBURG – One of the more forward thinking entrepreneurs on Front Street is Nick Maley, the iconic artist who stood at the basis of the Yoda character in the Star Wars movies. Maley’s Star Wars museum survived the onslaught of Hurricane Irma but he nevertheless spent time, energy and money on a serious upgrade of his storefront, as the picture with this article shows.
Author: Hilbert Haar
Hilbert Haar
Independent writer, journalist, photographer, former managing editor of the TODAY Newspaper on St. Maarten and main writer for StMaartenNews.com.
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PHILIPSBURG – The Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten temporarily appointed Leila Matroos-Lasten to the function of director secretary and José Jardim to financial economic director on Monday. The appointments were necessary to prevent that the Central Bank ends up without leadership after ad interim President Alberto Romero retires this Friday, November 17.
SCHIPHOL – Mitch Henriquez most likely died in June 2015 from an acute stress syndrome that resulted in heart failure. Three experts who studied the case said that on the second day of the trial against two police officers who were involved in the arrest of the 42-year old Aruban at the Parkpop festival in The Hague. The pathologist of the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) who earlier mentioned strangulation through a choke hold as the cause of death adjusted her findings.
PHILIPSBURG – With an 8 to 1 vote the Parliament passed a motion on Friday that resolves to discharge Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs William Marlin of his duties with immediate effect and to install Vice-Prime Minister Rafael Boasman as the Prime Minister. The motion also resolved to call on Governor drs Eugène Holiday to formalize and effectuate this decision of Parliament with immediate effect. The Parliament met in a Central Committee setting on Friday morning to continue with a meeting that was adjourned on Thursday afternoon when Prime Minister Marlin took his leave for an urgent meeting…
