SABA/PHILIPBURG — In January of 2018 the school board of the Sacred Heart Primary School in Saba determined that raising the bar in teaching standards and investing in their teacher’s professional development was an ongoing priority. Unanimously the board voted to implement the Teachers of Promise (T.O.P.) Program. The program was written and designed by Teach Institute, Training Professionals International Firm’s Education Arm, (TPI) and commences on March 26 – May 26, 2018. Twenty-four school professionals will complete the course, comprising of teachers, school leaders and teacher’s assistants. Each of the participants will receive a “globally accredited” certificate upon completion issued…
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Simpson Bay — Tuesday March 27th, Axxess Marine formally presented a $10,000 cheque to Sister Regina Primary School during a live interview with Dr. Soc on Island 92 Radio in which company CEO Dennis Fokke discussed Axxess Marine’s commitment to the rebuilding of the island and its passionate support for the team members, associates, friends and colleagues in the yachting industry who call St Maarten home. Seven months ago, on September 7, 2017, Axxess Marine launched an emergency relief fund to support the people of St. Maarten after the devastating impact of Hurricane Irma. Shortly thereafter the company also donated…
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance handled the cases of four suspects in the Emerald-investigation on Tuesday and the demands from the prosecution against all four were identical to those issued in February against two other suspects: 15 months of imprisonment and a conditional fine of 250,000 guilders, combined with 3 years of probation. The court will pronounce the verdicts on April 17.
Philipsburg — At the end of the deadline, Monday, March 26, 2018, at 18:00 hours, eighty-eight (88) of the ninety-three (93) political candidates, who contested the recently held parliamentary elections, have formally submitted their donation registration. Two (2) candidates have not finalized the registration online nor have they provided the Electoral Council with any information regarding their non-compliance. These candidates are: Christopher Emmanuel (NA) Roberto Arrindell (NA) Two other candidates concluded the registration online with no possibility to make any more adjustments. However, they failed to submit the signed register of donations to the Electoral Council as is required by…
Great Bay — The just concluded Post Irma Survivor Road Race which took place Sunday morning, March 25th, 2018, was not intended to serve as a reminder of the bad experiences of the devastation caused by hurricane Irma. Instead it was a way of demonstrating that the hunger to be still competitive was very much alive in a post-Irma environment. The four category event which was organized by MO Trouble Cycling Club in collaboration with the St. Maarten Cycling Federation (SMCF) attracted quite a gathering in the vicinity of the western end of the Causeway bridge. There were intervals between…
PHILIPSBURG — On Saturday, March 24th, 2018, the theater show Moana was opened by the show’s director, Susha Hien, who recounted how initially their first choice was to do Beauty and the Beast, but the Beast got cast to do another show. Then the choice fell to Moana. Susha had not seen the animated Disney movie, but when she was halfway into the first half of the show, she called choreographer Ihndhira Marlin and said they had to do Moana. There was no doubt about it. After the experience the island went through with hurricane Irma, this was the right…
Great Bay — In the field of Judo, the name Bell certainly rings a bell on St. Maarten. We are talking about Michaelangelo Bell, one of the athletes that has been selected to compete in the Central American & Caribbean Games (CAC) that will be held in Barranquilla, Colombia, from July 15th to August 3rd, 2018. For Bell and the other athletes that have been selected, this is just the beginning on the road to the Olympics and by extension a historical achievement for those that will be representing the friendly island for the first time at that level. Bell,…
Simpson Bay, St. Maarten – Just over a month following the opening of its Temporary Departure Pavilion, the Princess Juliana International Airport – SXM can now boast of the successful completion of its Temporary Arrival Pavilion. The experience will be sure to bring comfort to our arriving passengers, as they enter via the newly constructed pavilion. The new Arrival Pavilion has been constructed adjacent to the Departure Pavilion, which will once again centralize the traffic flow in the common public parking area. It is accessible at the C-gates bus parking area on the airside. The Arrival Pavilion is slated to…
By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – Hurricane Irma put the Rainforest Adventure Park to the test in September of last year but the project withstood the monster storm perfectly even though the wind speeds at the top of Sentry Hill must have been out of this world. Irma hit St. Maarten with sustained wind speeds of 185 miles (298 kilometers) per hour with higher gusts reaching 225 miles (362 kilometers). Rainforest’s chief engineer John Dalton says that sustained wind speeds of 200 miles per hour were the minimum design specification for the cable lift that leads from Rockland Estate up to…
PHILIPSBURG – Gerardo Antonio O.V. walked out of the courtroom a free man on Wednesday morning after his attorney Geert Hatzmann successfully defended him against accusations of looting in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in September of last year. The public prosecutor demanded a 4-month prison sentence, 2 years of probation and 120 hours of community service, but the court acquitted the defendant.
