PHILIPSBURG – Lunteren, the company of former Bada Bing-owner Jaap van den Heuvel does not have to pay Airport Inn Hotel $875,000 in rent arrears, for a disappeared generator and for reconstruction costs for its building on the Sr. Patientia Road in Simpson Bay that was destroyed by Hurricane Irma in September 2017. The court of appeals confirmed a ruling by the Court in First Instance that sentenced Lunteren to pay $16,400 in rent arrears. The costs of the appeal procedure – around 16,000 guilders ($8,940) are for the account of Airport Inn. Lunteren rented the Airport Inn Hotel building…
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~ Racism and bigotry in St. Maarten are unacceptable, says MP Grisha Heyliger-Marten ~ PHILIPSBURG—”The fact that Mr. Hatzmann sees the people of Sint Maarten as “little village people” proves that he is part of the bigger problem,” said United People’s Party Faction Leader in Parliament, the honourable Grisha Heyliger-Marten Wednesday evening. She urgently calls on the St. Maarten Bar Association to state its formal position on Mr. Hatzmann’s press release. Her statement was a sharp reaction to an article published recently by an online blog site. The headline of the online article was “Dean Bar Association welcomes Dutch intervention…
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GREAT BAY — St. Maarten celebrated its 157th anniversary of the Emancipation from slavery with the theme Carrying the torch of the sacred legacy of emancipation. In his speech, Governor of St. Maarten Drs. Eugene Holiday spoke of the emancipation proclamation that came into effect abolishing slavery on July 1, 1863. He stated that “the Emancipation Proclamation marked the trial for the indomitable will of the enslaved men and women on St. Maarten to be free. The triumph which forever redefined our collective destiny and one St. Maarten people,” said Governor Holiday. He described the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation that is…
Believe it or not, there exists an airport called Jackass Aeropark, although it is no longer in use. It is situated northwest of Las Vegas and was named after an area in the Amargosa Valley where wild jackasses once gathered to graze. It was initially listed on the charts with an unpaved runway of first 4,700ft, then 5,000ft, although no one seemed to know how it grew. (Maybe it was because all of a sudden there were two unpaved runways…) Then it was not depicted at all; perhaps it had been closed for unknown reasons. You would think that this…
GREAT BAY/PHILIPSBURG — There is a movement spearheaded by a group of concerned citizens in the community headed by Joseph Lake to rename St. Maarten’s capital from Philipsburg to Great Bay. According to the author and political analyst Joseph Lake, the group has presented a petition to the Chairman of Parliament Rolando Bryson on Friday. Lake explained that one of the reasons for the name change was because John Philips, who the capital was named after, was a slave owner, and the name Philipsburg means Philips town. Lake stated that although John Philips died more than 300 years ago, we…
PHILIPSBURG — Not paying civil servants their full vacation allowance is unlawful, the General Audit Chamber’s chairlady ad-interim Sheryl Peterson writes in a letter to Finance Minister Ardwell Irion. However, if negotiations with the unions result in a justified cut in the vacation allowance, the Audit Chamber is prepared to accept the measure as a matter of solidarity. The government wants to pay out only 50 percent of the 2020 vacation allowance as a part of its efforts to cut the remuneration for civil servants by 12.5 percent; this is a requirement from the Kingdom for receiving continued liquidity support.…
PHILIPSBURG – The Dutch parliament approved the motion of Chris van Dam that asks the Kingdom Council of Ministers to take control of the Pointe Blanche prison for the next five years with a large majority on Tuesday. How State Secretary Drs. Raymond Knops is going to execute the motion remains unclear; Knops said last week that this would involve intervening in St. Maarten’s internal affairs. Attorney Geert Hatzmann, the Dean of the local Bar Association has welcomed the motion’s approval. “The essence of this motion is that the Pointe Blanche dossier is taken away from St. Maarten and that…
PHILIPSBURG — The highly anticipated opening of the Princess Juliana International Airport on July 1, has been deferred to July 15, 2020. The Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs and Telecommunications Ludmila De Weever announced this at a virtual press conference on Tuesday afternoon. She said that the original plan was to open up to the islands of the former Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, the United States, Canada and the European Union. However, because of changes that took place in just a few days regarding the United States, they have decided…
Who is the victim and who is the victimizer? Who’s playtoy in who’s playpen on whose plantation? Country ST.Maarten has been developed as the CARBON COPY of ST.Maarten back in the days of slavery. The roles of the slave masters have been taken over by their descendants. Whereas the slave descendants are chiefly the working class in today’s society. Today’s era is called: modern economic slavery. The “wealth” oops wicked and worthless division is best identified and summarized as: The FORTUNATE FAVOURITE FEW owns practically everything and while predominantly the slave descendants actually fuel the booming, blooming and bustling economy…
