PHILIPSBURG – As more information surfaces about Ethegrity Health Consulting and its Chief Executive Officer Fredericka Ford the question becomes increasingly pressing whether it makes any sense at all for the Mental Health Foundation to enter into a $2.4 million contract with this company. In a LinkedIn page that touts Ford’s husband Wesley Mason III as the CEO of Meridian Behavioral Health Systems (MBH), established in Brentwood, Tennessee, a picture appears that shows Fredericka Ford with the text: “She is a billionaire and her name isn’t Oprah.” The same page claims that Ford is on the Spelman College Board of…
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Dear Editor, In 1946, the Netherlands’ three colonies were Indonesia, Surinam, and the former Netherlands Antilles. In 1946, under the United Nations Resolution 66 (I) (UN Resolution 66 (I) all three aforementioned Dutch colonies were listed as Non-Self-Governing Territories. The only way to be OFFICIALLY removed from said list of 1946 is through a United Nations Resolution. Indonesia was officially removed from the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories on the 28th of September 1950 through United Nations Resolution 491 (V). The only way to be OFFICIALLY removed from said list of 1946 is through a United Nations Resolution. Suriname became independent on…
PHILIPSBURG – Ethegrity Healthcare Consulting’s appearance in a parliamentary committee for public health has triggered a tidal wave of questions. Was its director Fredericka Ford in this meeting to provide support or was she there to sell the services of her company? Her presentation had all the hallmarks of a sales pitch. Now it appears that Ethegrity did not fall out of the sky: at least one parliamentarian knew Ford already back in April 2018. On May 2, 2018, an article appeared in The Daily Herald. It featured a photo that showed Fredericka Ford, Wesley Mason and Pat Charles together…
Simpson Bay – After 30 years of service with WINAIR Captain Roger Hodge is retiring. Captain Hodge began his career with WINAIR in 1990 thru 2020, Rogers 30 years of service in our flight department, beginning as a first officer progressing thru the ranks quickly to become our most senior Captain. His many accomplishments as a training instructor, check airman and most importantly sharing his knowledge thru tutoring and developing our junior pilots, providing the example of what it means to be a pilot. Captain Hodge, a pillar in the flight department, provided all our staff the example of how…
By Hilbert Haar If the result of the island council elections in Statia have made anything clear it is that change does not come easy to people. You can take horse to the water but you cannot force it to drink, the well-worn cliché goes. The electorate has spoken and the message is clear: they have lived for twenty years with Clyde van Putten as the controversial leader of the Progressive Labor Party and they want him back. The PLP won three of the five seats in the new Island Council, one more than it did in the 2015 elections.…
ORANJESTAD – “We have to prevent at all cost that the situation on the island from before the intervention reappears after a return to a regular administrative administration,” is one of the observations in the law that aims to address the gross neglect of duties by the island government of Statia.
~ Says: “Free and Fair elections allow democracy to reign.” ~ PHILIPSBURG— “Democracy at work,” were the words, Member of Parliament, the Honorable Grisha Heyliger-Marten used to describe her sentiments after hearing the results of the Island Council elections on St. Eustatius yesterday October 21, 2020. She said, “Part of self-determination is the ability of a people to participate in free and fair elections where their elected officials can serve without fear of attack from forces within our external forces. The people who you elect as your leaders must be the people who lead you, or you risk seeing your…
PHILIPSBURG — On Tuesday, October 20th, 2020, the Alpha Team arrested two men with the initials W.L.H. (42) and S.J.J. (30) in connection with an ongoing investigation. The suspects were arrested for their involvement with a drug smuggling offense that took place earlier this year at the cargo facilities in Point Blanche. W.H and S.J both remain in police custody in connection pending further investigation. The Alpha Team is a joint multidisciplinary team comprised of the Police Department KPSM, the Customs Department, the Immigration Department, the Koninklijke Marechaussee, and the Coast Guard.
By Hilbert Haar Finding the best possible solution in any situation requires first and foremost that you understand and acknowledge the problem. That’s why recovering alcoholics always begin their stories at AA-meetings by stating their name, followed by; “I am an alcoholic.” Recent media reports have established that, without a shadow of a doubt, the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) has some serious issues. So the initiative of chairlady Grisha Heyliger-Marten to call a meeting of the permanent parliamentary committee for Public Health, Social Affairs and Labor on a subject that concerned the MHF seemingly could not have come at a…
PHILIPSBURG — “Bringing mental health problems up for discussion is the best way to break the taboo surrounding mental illness,” says Fredericka Ford, CEO of Ethegrity Healthcare Consulting. Yesterday morning the consultant gave a presentation to Members of Parliament in a subcommittee on health matters chaired by MP Grisha Heyliger-Marten. Ethegrity wants to offer organizational advice for the Mental Health Foundation as well as telepsychiatry for the population of St. Maarten. Two of the MPs took the opportunity to share their own struggles with depression and mood swings with the public. Chairman of Parliament MP Rolando Brison (UP) explained that…
