GREAT BAY — Although seventy five percent of SOL Limited has been sold to the Parkland Fuel Corporation which is said to be North America’s fastest growing independent marketers of fuel and petroleum products, it will not affect the employees in the region. SOL regional manager David Antrobus stated that “although Parkland Fuel Corporation is a Canadian company, the SOL group of companies will continue to be managed from the Caribbean with its head office in Grand Cayman,” said Antrobus. He explained that what has been sold to Parkland Corporation is the entities and as a result the employees will…
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GREAT BAY — Guyanese who have not renounced their former nationality to obtain the Dutch passport will be able to do it through the office of the Honorary Consul to Guyana Cleveland Beresford whose office is situated on Back Street, Philipsburg. “This is not a new requirement by the Dutch Government,” said Beresford. This has been the requirement for a number of years and persons who have obtained the Dutch Nationality are advised by letter from the Dutch Government that they must relinquish their former nationality to become a Dutch citizen. He explained that it was challenged by Dutch citizens…
By Hilbert Haar Well, well well. Hear hear. The appeals court has acquitted Maria Buncamper-Molanus and her husband Claudius of quite some charges in the so-called Eco Green-investigation. Terms like ‘no crime was committed’ and ‘I have done nothing wrong’ will start singing around again. And of course, it is a fact that the court ruling favors the beleaguered Buncampers in many ways. That they established a bogus company called Eco Green to avoid paying taxes over rental income from a piece on land on Soualiga Boulevard is not against the law, the court ruled. Like everyone else, the Buncampers…
PHILIPSBURG – The Common Court of Justice has sentenced former Public Health Minister Maria Buncamper-Molanus and her husband Claudius to a 25,000-guilders fine and 240 hours of community service each for tax fraud with their bogus company Eco Green. The appeal against the verdict from the Court in First Instance still paid off, because the conditional 12-month prison sentence it imposed is now off the table. The appeals court acquitted the Buncampers of most charges but held the couple accountable for filing incorrect tax returns for Eco Green – a company of which Claudius Buncamper and Maria Buncamper-Molanus were the…
Philipsburg — The Ombudsman, Dr. Nilda Arduin, has started a systemic investigation at the level of the functionally responsible Minister, into the procurement process/Procurement Management Policy of Princess Juliana International Airport Operating Company N.V. (PJIAE) and the application of same in practice. The transparency of the pertinent procedures and policies at the level of the functionally responsible government body for PJIAE, i.e. the Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication (TEATT), who is also the shareholder representative, is being queried. Considering the nature of a complaint filed with the Ombudsman against PJIAE, and PJIAE having been identified and listed…
Philipsburg – WINAIR recently took delivery of 3 new GPU’s (Ground Power Units) and 4 tugs in order to handle its own flights and those of its growing 3rd party customers in St. Maarten. WINAIR daily operates 37 Twin Otter flights and 5 ATR flights from its hub at PJIAE in St. Maarten and provides ramp and passenger handling services to Air Antilles, Seaborne Airlines, Sky High Aviation, Air Cargo Carriers (Holsum Bread AC). In addition, WINAIR also offers charter services to health insurance agency ZVK, numerous FBO’s and to the general public, thereby bringing the Caribbean closer than ever. “With…
~ MP Doran’s request honored by Council of Ministers ~ Philipsburg — Member of Parliament Egbert Jurendy Doran requested a tour of the hurricane shelters on Sint Maarten during the Central Committee meeting on August 3, 2018. The Prime Minister stated then that she had no reservations therewith, and on Friday, October 12th, Members of Parliament had the opportunity to visit 3 of the 13 listed establishments that were reportedly adjusted and prepared by Government in such a way that they should be able to function as shelters in the event of a catastrophe. In a previous press release dated…
By Hilbert Haar On a Wednesday morning, I get up at 5.45 a.m. We’ll be on the road again today and I start thinking that we ought to slow down a bit. Nine countries in the not even one hundred days since we left St. Maarten at the end of June starts to feel like a useless exercise to get into the Guinness Book of Records for visiting as many countries as possible in the time I still have left on this earth. But hey, this is not a bucket list of a dying man – we have plenty of…
By Hilbert Haar Super typhoon Magnkhut has missed Hanoi and barreled into southern China, so Myriam and I feel confident traveling back up north with the intention to visit the mountainous region of Sapa. Big mistake; more about that later. First, I’ll take a little step forward to the Sunday night when we arrived in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. This is the ninth country we visit on our trip that began on June 26 when we left St. Maarten for Europe. Since then, we have been in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Poland, Russian, Mongolia, South Korea, Vietnam and Laos.…
PHILIPSBURG — The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) will produce a children’s coloring book for Carnival 2019 as one of the many projects to mark the 50th Anniversary of Carnival. The foundation is actively trying to re-vive the youth participation and interest in cultural aspects of Carnival and has chosen to so starting with the children in elementary levels. President of the SCDF Alston Lourens said the coloring book will feature about 15 pages of Carnival icons and things typical to Carnival. Well known Carnival artists and other stakeholders will be depicted as well as Carnival trucks, something representative…
