PHILIPSBURG – The situation at the St. Maarten Academy PSVE (Preparatory Secondary Vocational Education) remains volatile now that the board led by former Justice Minister Roland Duncan has refused to remove principal Lavern Nelson from her position. Minister Wycliffe Smith (Education) has stepped in and produced a report that takes the school board to task. The tension between principal, teachers and other staff is sky high. While Smith’s report does not shy away from identifying the place of teachers and staff in the hierarchy of the school organization, he puts most of the blame on the school board and its…
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PHILIPSBURG – The board of the Foundation for Academic and Vocational Education (FAVE) has to pay 94,000 guilders gross ($52,514) to guidance counselor and job training coordinator Zeynep Sabahoglu for firing her without a valid reason. The board also failed to ask permission for the dismissal and it did not award Sabahoglu compensation. The guidance counselor initiated a lawsuit against the school board after her dismissal. FAVE came with its own lawsuit, demanding that the court dissolves the contract without awarding the counselor compensation. Sabahoglu won both procedures. Sabahoglu started working for FAVE on August 1, 2009, and she had…
By Hilbert Haar The case of the dismissed guidance counselor Zeynep Sabahoglu by the Foundation for Academic and Vocational Education (FAVE) shows once more how irresponsible the board members of such organizations are when it comes to their responsibilities. While the court saw no other option than to dissolve the labor contract (based on “changed circumstances” and not on any reason presented by the board) it ordered FAVE to pay the counselor 94,000 guilders gross (around $52,000) in compensation. According to the 2018 budget, FAVE receives 12,893,092 guilders in subsidies from the government in 2018. That money is earmarked for…
GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten – Ministry of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Development and Infrastructure (Ministry VROMI), announces that there will be interruption with the traffic flow on the Cole Bay road due to work being carried out in connection with the road paving/patching 2018 project. Weather permitting, work will start during evening and overnight hours on Monday, November 12th, 2018. Motorists are asked to pay keen attention to the works for their own safety and the safety of the workmen. The project is expected to be completed within a few days. The community will be further informed as the road…
Photo caption: This year saw the joint participation of five law enforcement agencies in the 31st annual Sint Maarten’s Day Around the Island Relay Race. A total 22 men and women from the Sint Maarten Coast Guard, the Police Force of Sint Maarten (KPSM), Royal Dutch Marines, the Customs Department and the Public Prosecutor’s Office competed in 2 teams. As a unified team of colleagues the group ran this 11 leg route through the South and North sides of the island. In completing the relay race together the different law enforcement agencies showed their dedication, strength and teamwork which are…
PHILIPSBURG — Police patrols, Paramedics and Police Traffic Department on Sunday November 11th at approximately 08.35 a.m. were sent to Sucker Garden Road in the vicinity of the York’s property to investigate a traffic accident involving a four-wheeler with license plate R-189 ridden by a female. On the scene paramedics attended to the 18 year old victim identified with M.C.S. and transported her to the Sint Maarten Medical Center for further treatment but shortly after was pronounced dead. The victim died of the injuries she sustained during the accident. According to witnesses the victim lost control of the four-wheeler while…
Philipsburg — The Sint Maarten Police force is well aware of the increase in the number of school fights that have been taking place within the last few months and would like to send a stern warning to all students and parents that there will be severe consequences for such actions. The KPSM police have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to school and gang fights and are pleading with all parents to get involved in trying to alleviate this rapidly growing problem by talking to their children about the dangers of getting involved in fights. Penalties vary from…
Today, Friday, November 9, 2018, as a pre-St. Maarten Day gift, a complimentary container filled with a delicious and tasty breakfast combo consisting of two johnny cakes, a croissant, saltfish, boiled egg, tuna, cheese, fresh fruits and salad with a sprinkling of raisins was delivered to StMaartenNews.com. Breakfast is the best meal of the day. So we highly recommend you try this delicious breakfast treat. Contact Kreative Juices Catering to order your own breakfast combo. You will be pleasantly surprised.
~ Minister Lee says asthma medication Ventolin is not covered by SZV ~ PHILIPSBURG – An asthma patient has sounded the alarm over the lack of proper medication in St. Maarten, warning that the situation on the island is becoming “extremely serious.” Among the concerns are sharp increases in emergency room visits and in the number of people suffering from asthma due to the fires at the dump. The patient informed stmaartennews.com that she had to travel all the way to the pharmacy in Maho to get Ventolin nebules for her nebulizer – a device for the administration of medication in the…
PHILIPSBURG – When current Member of Parliament Theo Heyliger (United Democrats) was minister of Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment and Infrastructure he accepted $300,000 in bribes from the Dutch consultant Ronald Maasdam, who is currently detained for this matter in the Netherlands. This appears from the summons against Maasdam, who was scheduled to appear in court in Philipsburg on Monday, November 6. While Heyliger has not been charged with bribery in the Maasdam case it is not the first blemish on his political career. On November 28, Heyliger has been summoned to court as a suspect in the Catfish-case. In…
