By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – There are strong indications that Frans Richardson, leader of the United St. Maarten party (USp) has been wrongfully admitted to the parliamentary elections on February 26 and that his election as a member of Parliament is invalid. According to article 49 of the constitution, members of Parliament must be a resident of St. Maarten, have Dutch nationality, be at least 18 years of age and not be banned from the right to be elected. Richardson does not meet the first requirement because he lives on the French side of the island.
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PHILIPSBURG – On Tuesday April 3rd, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephanus Blok paid a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Leona Romeo-Marlin at the Government Administration Building. During the meeting, the two Ministers discussed Post Hurricane Irma recovery, border demarcations, French & Dutch cooperation amongst other agenda points. Prime Minister Romeo Marlin also took the time to express her gratitude to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the assistance and cooperation especially with the coordination of evacuations and relief flights immediately after Hurricane Irma. Photo caption – Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephanus Blok paid courtesy visit to Prime…
The Bottom, Saba — On Wednesday, March 27, 2018, the Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba held an official Oath Taking ceremony, for their valued civil servants. The event focused on the importance and seriousness of the Oath of Office and reemphasized that all civil servants must honor their promise and are expected to uphold the rules and regulations of the Saba Government. Tim Muller, The Island Secretary, opened the well-attended event highlighting the beauty of Saba and the unique richness, ambiance and solemn ethnicity that it holds true too. He also thanked the civil servants for their loyalty,…
POND ISLAND – Acting Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications (Ministry TEATT) Cornelius de Weever, recently led a delegation that met with officials from Spirit Airlines regarding airlift into the country post-Irma, and an update on destination hospitality service and infrastructure developments. The objective of the meeting with Spirit Airlines was to maintain a constant dialogue with airline partners and provide them with the information they need to make decisions on restoring their past level of air services as soon as possible. Prior to Irma, Spirit provided weekly flights from Ft. Lauderdale with a 228-seat aircraft. As of…
Focus on addressing the broader and higher revival ideals of our society Oath of Office Ceremony for Parliamentarians Address by The Governor of Sint Maarten, His Excellency drs. Eugene B. Holiday April 2, 2018 Falcon Drive 3, Philipsburg, Sint Maarten Chairlady of Parliament, Prime Minister, Vice President of the Joint Court of Justice, Members of Parliament elect, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, Good morning and a pleasant welcome with Easter greetings to all on this Easter Monday. In particular I herewith extend a special welcome and Easter greetings to the fifteen (15) elected parliamentarians seated alphabetically on…
SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) – “Benjamin & Parker Corporation in its duty to inform the SXM (Ed Sint Maarten) business community on how to manage the 2017 financial statements and the extraordinary calculations necessary to allocate the precise damage suffered hereby presents an article outlining the real time situation, Terrence Jandroep from Benjamin & Parker said in a statement on Monday.“It’s a tragic situation when an unexpected Act of God, results in financial losses. The material losses (physical) are devastating and the physiological impact is enormous however, we must have resilience actions to regain the commercial name brand recognition and market…
PHILIPSBURG – The public prosecutor demanded a higher sentence against Member of Parliament Chanel Brownbill on Thursday than he did against other suspects in the Emerald-investigation: 18 instead of 15 months of imprisonment and a conditional fine of 250,000 guilders. The court will pronounce its verdict on April 17.
By Hilbert Haar Everyone in Sint Maarten shall be treated equally in equivalent circumstances. Discrimination on grounds of religion, belief, political persuasion, race, colour of skin, sex, language, national or social origins, membership of a national minority, wealth, birth or and any other ground whatsoever is prohibited. I did not make up what is written in the first paragraph. It is the text of article 16 of the Constitution of St. Maarten. Why is this important?
PHILIPSBURG – On Tuesday, November 27 at 9 a.m. the currently largest cruise ship in the world will dock in the port of Philipsburg. The Symphony of the Seas will spend the day in port and leave again at 6 p.m. The vessel is part of the fleet of Royal Caribbean; it was delivered to the company last week Friday by STX France at the ship yard of Saint-Nazaire in the western part of France. The Symphony of the Seas will spend its first months in the Mediterranean before it crosses the Atlantic to its future home port of Miami.…
PHILIPSBURG – The public prosecutor demanded 36 months with 6 months suspended and 2 years of probation against Juan L., owner of the Juan Bar in Cole Bay for ill-treatment, human trafficking and the illegal employment of eleven foreign women who worked as prostitutes in the rooms he rented out to them. The prosecution also wants to seize cash worth a bit more than $5,500 investigators found hidden in the defendant’s bedroom in dollar, guilder and euro denominations. The court will pronounce its verdict on April 18.
