PHILIPSBURG – With the tenth anniversary of St. Maarten as an autonomous country within the kingdom of the Netherlands rapidly approaching, the discussion about the constitutional status of the island is slowly coming back into focus. In Curacao the Antilliaans Dagblad and Extra commissioned a survey about the current sentiment to Kenniscentrum Curacao, a part of the University of the Caribbean and its results give us an inkling of what the outcome of a similar exercise in St. Maarten could be. Kenniscentrum interviewed 873 voters by phone. Of the respondents, more than 70 percent said they support a referendum about…
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PHILIPSBURG – The government accountants bureau (Soab) audited Finance Minister ardwell Irion’s income and unemployment support programs and found that these programs are mostly executed conform the rules established in the ministerial decree of May 14. There were 340 approved applicants for the income support program; SOAB tested 174 of them; they represent 483,000 guilders of the income support distributed up until July 27. The accountants also looked into 143 of the 282 approved applicants for the unemployment support program. They found that 27 applicants had not submitted a dismissal letter with a company stamp, one applicant submitted a dismissal…
~ Philipsburg Police Station evacuated; prisoners moved to Simpson Bay ~ PHILIPSBURG — Late Monday night, September 28th, 2020, the Philipsburg Police Station was evacuated after an apparent call to the station about a bomb in the building. According to 721news, all police staff was evacuated out of the building. At the time, it was not clear whether there were any prisoners in the police cells and if they were also evacuated. In a broadcast via Facebook, 721news streamed live images of many police officers standing outside the building. It was the changing of the evening shift for the night…
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…
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…
