Dear Sir, All political positions and posturing are supported by broad supportive beliefs that are held in the communities which the politicians represent. Does this explain how we are ending up with islands in the Dutch Kingdom not being able to make an agreement on a desperately needed liquidity injection from Kingdom partner Holland? Talk to many people in the islands and there is the belief that Holland is trying to exploit a situation in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom which they should not be exploiting. Yes, they will say there has been mismanagement in the Caribbean, but there…
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PHILIPSBURG – Hushang Ansary is not the only one facing a lawsuit initiated by insurance company ENNIA; other defendants in this case include his daughter Nina, his holding Parman International and three others that have played a role in what could be considered as the theft of the century. Here are the key facts, as presented by ENNIA’s attorneys Karina Keizer and Sabine Altena in their petition to the court in Curacao, plus a description of the role each of the defendants has allegedly played in the plundering of ENNIA’s assets.
CAY HILL — Administering two and often more drugs at the same time has been the rule rather than the exception at the Mental Health Foundation for many years. Many patients are given a cocktail of medication. This is called polypharmacy or poly-medication. Last year, this changed with the arrival of two BIG-registered doctors, but only for the group of patients under their supervision. Philipsburg Pharmacy, which supplies medication to the Mental Health Foundation, has been receiving requests from the institution in Cay Hill for more than a year now to order other, new types of medication. These include antipsychotic…
If I keep bringing you sad news, does your mind have the time to be happy? If I am always speaking negative around you, is your mind ever able to process the positive? If I keep spreading bad information, will your mind be ever able to contain the good? If you keep following all that is going wrong during this COVID 19 Pandemic, will you ever be able to see in the consequences all that may be going right? If we only spread news that will be destructive to our people, their minds will be so distracted that they cannot…
PHILIPSBURG – The bitter fight between insurance company ENNIA and its major shareholder Hushang Ansary has resulted in several court cases and there are more to come. From the 200-page petition attorneys Karina Keizer and Sabine Altena have filed with the court in Curacao on behalf of ENNIA emerges the picture of a man who hates criticism and who takes absolute power for granted. Loyalty and trust are more important than competency, according to Ansary, who once pointed out to ENNIA managers that “competence can be replaced.” Ansary has been accused of being the architect of a complex of initiatives…
Dear Editor, People need to be made seriously and individually accountable. It must hurt them ultimately in their own pocket if they so wish to abuse the phone system at their place of work. Read: Unpaid Advice: How Government Can Cut Phone Costs There you have it Minister of Finance. A very simple Strategy and Approach. And we the People of Sint Maarten want you to make public from these Investigative Random Findings where these abusive practices are the most. I am challenging the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister to take this Approach. Present it to the Council…
PHILIPSBURG – The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled on Friday that Alegria Real Estate does not have to honor the rights of timeshare-owners at the former Caravanserai Beach Resort. The timeshare-owners, united in the Timeshare Owners at Caravanserai Association (TOCA) may yet see their investments go up in smoke, after the Court of Appeals had still ruled in their favor in December 2018. The Supreme Court reversed this ruling and has now sent it back to the appeals court for a new ruling. The judgement of the Supreme Court ruling can read (in Dutch) online here: http://deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2020:1499 Kildare Properties…
PHILIPSBURG — “St Maarten’s Government Crazy Phone Bills” is the headline heading up an article on the website of our colleague in the media business, Mervin Hanley of THG News Today. That one certainly caught our attention. The St. Maarten government’s crazy phone bills also caught the attention of Achken R. Richardson, an engineer with years of experience dealing with government. But first some background information to led to this report. During the Council of Ministers’ weekly press briefing on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020, Minister of Finance, Ardwell Irion, informed the media that for the last couple of months the…
PHILIPSBURG — The government, led by Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs, wants a St. Maarten version of the Dutch Individual Health Care Professions Act (Wet BIG). This is stated in the NA-UP Governing Program 2020-2024(*) that was published on September 12th. The BIG ordinance regulates medical liability and determines which actions are reserved exclusively for qualified doctors with specific titles. In the Netherlands, all healthcare providers – doctors, physician assistants, nurses, therapists, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, dieticians – can submit an application to be registered in the BIG register to be able to hold their title. The register is public; anyone can…
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance has dissolved the labor contract of Mark Mingo with the St. Maarten Harbour Holding Company. The company does not have to pay its former director any compensation. The court decision reveals the salary the harbor paid Mingo: 47,969 guilders ($26,798) gross per month – an annual salary of 575,628 guilders ($321,580). Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs earns 21,925 guilders ($12,249) gross per month, or 263,100 guilders ($146,983) per year. After the 25 percent salary cut the Kingdom wants to impose, her income goes down to $110,237 gross per year. Mingo’s salary was therefore almost…
