PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Bryan Giovanni Henson to 15 months of imprisonment, with 3 months suspended and 2 years of probation, for firearm possession on Wednesday. The prosecution had demanded 5 months straight and defense attorney Geert Hatzmann pleaded for an acquittal. It was not the best birthday for Henson when he was arrested on February 6 at the car wash where he worked. That day he turned 34. Ten days earlier, the police received a tip that Henson was carrying a gun and officers had kept an eye on him. But when he was arrested,…
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PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance acquitted four defendants of committing public violence on September 30, 2017, against a man one of them had just thrown out of his apartment. But the court found one of the participants in the brawl guilty of firearm possession and sentenced him to 12 months of imprisonment, 3 months below the prosecution’s demand. The tenant, R.R.S. filed a complaint for threats, destruction of property and ill-treatment against his landlord Tyrone Etienne Meyers, Akkoye Jacques Meyers, Mhalik Ayo Erico O. and Nyheen Roberto Pierre Roumou. The plaintiff had gone to his house after a…
PHILIPSBURG – The long awaited Dutch Quarter sewage project is becoming a reality. Contractor Van Boekel will begin the work with a survey next month and start the actual work in August. The project is scheduled to be completed in a year. But there was one Dutch Quarter resident who did not have a lot of confidence in the story he was told during a town hall meeting at the Dutch Quarter Community Center on Wednesday evening. “Promises, promises, and nothing happens,” he said. Ir. Kurt Ruan, head of New Projects at the VROMI-ministry took the wind out of his…
PHILIPSBURG – Prime Minister Leona Marlin-Romeo remained non-committal to the suggestion that she will stay on her post in the next government. Dutch prime Minister Mark Rutte suggested on Monday with his remark “Leona Marlin and her incoming team” that her appointment as the next prime minister is a done deal. But Marlin-Romeo remained aloof. “I cannot comment on Mark Rutte’s statement,” she said on Wednesday. “However, I cannot state that I will be the next Prime Minister. That is still unknown at this point in time.” Marlin-Romeo said that the screening process and the selection of ministers has to…
PHILIPSBURG – Drastic measures at the landfill: the contract with the current management company, Robelto and Sons will be “amicably terminated,” the appointment of a waste project manager is imminent and the government will beef up security. Minister Miklos Giterson (Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment and Infrastructure) made these announcements at Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. “I assure the people that permanent and viable solutions are underway in dealing with this recurring health hazard,” Giterson said after he had made a reference to the fire that ignited on the dump early Sunday morning. “Right now we are busy with…
PHILIPSBURG – The first emergency repairs funded by the trust fund at the World Bank will begin in June, Prime Minister Leona Marlin-Romeo announced during Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. There is a budget of $55 million for the first project – emergency repairs, disaster preparedness and utilities. Under this program fall repairs to the police station, the fire station and hurricane shelters, urgent school repairs, a new location and equipment for the meteorological department, new ambulances, repair to 500 roofs for vulnerable groups, emergency communication equipment, emergency repairs to electricity and trenching lines, water storage tanks and repairs…
PHILIPSBURG – The development of a concrete action plan to improve children’s protection though their emergency preparedness by each participant, participating institution or department. That is one of the objectives of a 3-day long child protection in emergencies training that will begin on Friday at the University of Saint Martin and continue after the weekend on Monday and Tuesday. Prime Minister Leona Marlin-Romeo met with the director of the Court of Guardianship, Richelda Rodriguez-Emmanuel, and with two UNICEF-representatives to discuss the training program. The Unicef reps are child protection specialist Anna Kroon and child protection in emergencies training consultant Joanna…
PHILIPSBURG –The Police Traffic Department has released information that the suspect in the fatal hit and run traffic accident which took place on Saturday, January 27th 2018, at approximately 4 a.m. on Union Road in the vicinity of Ace Mega Center causing the death of Roy Flanders, who was known to be mentally challenged, has come forward. The suspect in this case had left the scene of the accident and did not report it to the police department. According to a report on 721news.com, the suspect had confessed to his family and they eventually brought it to the attention of…
PHILIPSBURG — On Tuesday May 15th police arrested two men suspected of being responsible for several break-ins in the Philipsburg and Sint Peters areas. The first suspect identified with initials M.J.F has been arrested as a suspect responsible for breaking into several businesses in the Philipsburg area and mainly on the Board walk over the last two weeks. The second suspect identified with initials K.D.S. was also arrested by police suspected to of being responsible for several break-ins in Sint Peters and mainly on Lime Road. K.D.S. was caught in the act while he committing a break-in at one of…
PHILIPSBURG – Around one hundred representatives of local non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) turned out for an information meeting at the Senior Citizens Recreational Center in Hope Estate on Tuesday evening. The objective: to hear more about funding options for social projects by the Dutch Disaster Fund. The fund has €2 million available for projects, of which two-third – around €1.3 million ($1.5 million) – is available for projects in St. Maarten, Saba and Statia. Fleur Hermanides and José Sommers, project managers at the Collaborating Funds gave an explanation to the audience about ways to get access to the funding. The Disaster…
