PHILIPSBURG – On behalf of the Government of Sint Maarten, Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin extends heartfelt condolences to the family, colleagues, friends, the staff and all the children in the care of the late founder of the I Can Foundation, Ms. Cassandra “Debbie” Gibbs. “Sint Maarten has lost a great community leader and advocate for the fostering of youth. Ms. Gibbs immense contribution to her cause of saving youth at risk, will never be forgotten, my thoughts goes out especially to the children and the community of Dutch Quarter,” said Prime Minister Romeo Marlin. Over the years, the I…
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PHILIPSBURG – Two days after the I Can Foundation orphanage in Dutch Quarter marked its 23rd anniversary, its founder Cassandra ‘Debbie’ Gibbs unexpectedly passed away, leaving the staffers who found her body last Friday morning in shock. With Gibbs, St. Maarten has lost an icon of immeasurable value. “Today I lost a friend who meant so much to the SXM community. My heart goes out to all her children and her family, friends, staff and colleagues,” Myriam Haar, who worked in the recent past with several of the I Can-children through a volunteer emotional coaching program, wrote in a Facebook…
~ Features roadside peanut hustler in first video interview~ PHILIPSBURG — StMaartenNews.com is excited to announce that a new video series entitled “SXM Side Hustles” is launched today, bringing awareness to the people of St. Maarten about side hustles that can bring in a little extra money without having to quit their regular paying jobs. The launch includes the first video interview with a roadside peanut hustler name Mr. Herman. This is a part of the SXM Side Hustles publication. Through the new publication, StMaartenNews.com will introduce topics that are not usually taught anywhere, like practicing group economics, crowdfunding, solidarity…
GREAT BAY – Minister of Justice, Cornelius De Weever, and Chairman of the Board of the VKS, Franklyn Richards, on Tuesday morning signed an agreement for the deployment of VKS Officers for the House of Detention and Prison Point Blanche. “The Voluntary Corps of St. Maarten (VKS) has been supporting and will continue in carrying out its duties supporting building the community of St. Maarten,” said Richards. The agreement signed between the two entities states that the VKS should deliver members of the Voluntary Corps on a daily schedule to the Point Blanche Detention Center as determined by the Director…
That human behavior is unpredictable is a fact. With all the smart inventions predicted in Star Trek – from the Universal Translator, to the Medical Tricorder and the Communicator – all nicely wrapped up today into one device called the Smartphone – successfully predicting human behavior remains a challenge. Don’t believe me? Answer me this: has anybody ever seen anyone taking a selfie in Star Trek? Who could have predicted that human behavior. Also, who could have ever predicted with all the commotion leading up to his successful election campaign result in 2016 and the turbulent track record of having…
By Hilbert Haar Politics is a dirty game and everybody and his uncle knows it. So when somebody gets in the way of a hidden agenda, the spin doctors and people who are ready to do their bidding come out of the woodwork. In St. Maarten, the vehicle of choice for slander and backstabbing has always been the SMN-News blog. Feed the blog a story with scandal written all over it and you are in business. Recently, the radio show of Fernando Clark has fallen into the same trap. Radio shows and blogs are no longer about truth and transparency…
PHILIPSBURG – “The Ministry of VSA rocks and I am very proud of my staff,” caretaker Minister Emil Lee said at the end of his candid interview with Andrew Dick. Lee dismissed allegations made against him and others on Bibi Shaw’s notorious blog SMN-News as ‘nonsense.’ The stories that appeared on the blog seem to be part of an orchestrated smear campaign against Lee that erupted after Parliament passed a motion of no confidence against him – presented by his coalition partner MP Luc Mercelina – with an 8 to 7 vote. “Seven out of eight coalition members were happy…
PHILIPSBURG – The court case against country St. Maarten and the manager of the landfill, Robelto&Son is near its conclusion. The plaintiffs, Barbara Cannegieter, attorney Camiel Koster and his law office BZSE have asked the court for a ruling that is now expected to be delivered in two weeks time, on July 26. The plaintiffs filed an injunction against country St. Maarten and Robelto&Son, the company that managed the dump, in July 2018, demanding measures within three months. The centerpiece of the injunction is an article in the civil code (5:31 BW); it stipulates that the owner of a parcel…
PHILIPSBURG — Member of Parliament for the United Democrats UD party, Tamara Leonard, recently saw her first amendment law being passed in Parliament during the budget debate on Tuesday, July 2, 2019. On the night of the aforementioned date, chairman at the time, MP Claude “Chacho” Peterson, tabled the amendment motion submitted by MP Tamara Leonard. This happened just before the voting on the 2019 budget. Leonard, who took the opportunity to motivate her vote on the motion, explained that the submitted law amendment called for funds to be reserved to provide public schools with a pilot project with a…
ST. PETERS — KPSM Detectives are at this time investigating another robbery with the use of violence which took place on Monday July 8th after 8 p.m. in the Retreat Estate and St. Peters area. According to reports the incident took place while the victim who is a Venezuelan national was on his way home riding his scooter with groceries from a supermarket in the area. He was suddenly attacked by an unknown person who ran out of the dark, wearing black clothing and a hoodie over his head. This person struck the victim to the side of his head…
