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,…
Author: The Publisher
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.
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Leando Aslem Prince on Wednesday morning to 10 months of imprisonment for the possession of a firearm and ammunition. Police officers caught the 26-year old defendant in November of last year near the Crystal Club on Soualiga Boulevard when he ran into an alley next to the club, briefly bent down and ran away.
PHILIPSBURG — The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) is ready to host two exciting nights of social commentary from some of the islands most veteran Calypsonians. The Nagico Senior Calypso Competition is back and following hurricane Irma and the political upheaval that followed, the SCDF expects the singers to deliver strong messages through their Calypso’s. The foundation announced on Thursday that 16 singers are registered to compete in the Calypso elimination which is slated to be held on April 16. Ten of the 16 will advance to the finals on April 26 where each will try to dethrone the…
Up to this day, the existing constitutional and political dilemma between the island of St. Eustatius (“Statia”) and the country of The Netherlands (“Holland”) has been approached as an “or/or” issue, as a choice between two premises which many among us believe to oppose each other: democracy and practicality as incompatible end goals (quod non). The reality of the chances for success in this matter however may earlier and better be found in answering the question how to properly balance these two premises in a way which is most beneficial to the Statia people. In order to soonest accomplish that…
PHILIPSBURG – Minister of Finance Mike Ferrier has expressed his irritation about a letter from financial supervisor Cft that contains complaints about deadlines St. Maarten is not meeting with regards to the 2018 budget and the annual financial accounts going back to 2013.
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced an 18-year old boy to 80 hours of conditional community service and to mandatory anger management training for a stunt he pulled on December 16 of last year. The probation office describes Quimarni Dereushay Adonis Brown as a quiet boy who can explode when he perceives injustice. Hence the court’s decision to send the boy to anger management training. In November, the police initially failed to stop Brown when they spotted him driving a scooter. The then 17-year old escaped the police by driving recklessly, without a helmet and without insurance, it…
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance suspended on Wednesday morning the pretrial detention of a 21-year old defendant who stabbed a man to death on December 5, 2017, after an argument about parking space.
