GREAT BAY – On Tuesday February 6, 2018, the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Sint Maarten organized a Round Table Conference “Sustainable Financial Government,” with the Netherlands, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Committee for Financial Supervision of Curacao and Sint Maarten Cft. The goal of this conference was to get all parties together and have an open dialogue on the way forward to a financial sustainable Sint Maarten and how progress can be achieved in bringing relief to the people of Sint Maarten in the short term. The main topics discussed was the…
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Philipsburg – On Thursday afternoon a delegation including Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin, Minister of VROMI Miklos Giterson and State Secretary Raymond Knops visited 2 of the 480 homes that have been selected for reconstruction in the Roof Repair Program that is being executed by the Government of Sint Maarten. “I am confident that we are heading in the right direction as the Government of Sint Maarten continues to develop programs that will assist and bring relief to persons in the community”, said Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin following meetings with State Secretary Knops. The objective of the tour was…
PHILIPSBURG – The House of Parliament will sit in an urgent Central Committee meeting on February 9, 2018. The minister of General Affairs as well as the minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor and the minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure will be present. The Central Committee meeting which was adjourned on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 will resume on Friday at 15.00 hrs in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelminastraat #1 in Philipsburg. The agenda point is: Discussion about the current situation at the dump including possible solutions. Members of the public…
Philipsburg — The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) on Thursday released the inspection schedule for all vehicles that will be included in Carnival road events. Annually the foundation, together with the police department, structures a schedule for inspections to ensure that all vehicles are up to code. Band trucks, trailers, float vehicles, promotional vehicles are all inspected before they are allowed to be used in jump-ups and/or parades. “Safety in Carnival is still are first priority,” SCDF president Alston Lourens said. “SCDF road events travels along very narrow road ways with thousands of people as onlookers. These onlookers are…
Philipsburg — The Electoral Council would like to remind all political parties contesting the upcoming parliamentary elections that in accordance with the National Ordinance on Registration and Finances of Political Parties they are required to make their manifestos public in a timely manner. In order for the public to make well-informed decision, the political program of a party should be published around the date of postulation. To date only one party, the Sint Maarten Christian Party, has presented their manifesto for the 2018 elections to the public. According to the articles of association of the respective political parties the publication…
Philipsburg — Last week during the visit of Rotary District Governor Robert Leger and his wife Rosa, the Rotary Club of St. Maarten-Mid Isle donated 75 pieces of school uniforms to SJIB (Stichting Justitiele Inrichtingen Bovenwinden). These uniforms were given to children of Martin Luther King School, Prins Willem Alexander School, Marie Genevieve de Weever School, Oranje School, Sr. Borgia Primary and St. Maarten Vocational Training School. The SJIB-Probation Department occupies a unique and central position in the St. Maarten justice structure. It is the only department that is in contact with the offender throughout the different stages of the…
by Jacob Gelt Dekker Six months after the Van Putten-Statia incident, financial mismanagement, abuse of power, fraud, theft, embezzlement of public funds, widespread corruption and favoritism, personal intimidations, threats and insults, and extensive administrative neglect, caused the Dutch government to intervene with direct rule from The Hague. Van Putten’s worst fears were realized, not by Marines but by parliament; with a sigh of relief, the population of victims may see a temporary end to gangster-rule on the island. In case you missed the incident, Statia’s PLP-leader, and Island Councilman, Clyde van Putten, had egged on his audience at a political…
Philipsburg — The missing 12 year old boy Nathan York who has been missing since Tuesday February 6th has been found. He was found early this morning by his mother in an old abandoned bus close to the home of his father in Middle Region. He was asleep at the time and had on the same school uniform he was last seen wearing. The young boy seemed to be dehydrated and was not answering to questions. It was immediately decided to take him to the hospital to get medical attention. On the way to the hospital his parents met up…
Dear Editor, Today is a black page in the political history of St. Eustatius. Even in the old days, when the Statia government, without significant support from the National government in Willemstad, had to operate with a so called wenselijkheids budget, which was not sufficient to cover the cost of good governance. But what happens now within our government did not take place. Lawlessness, dictatorial behavior, irresponsible expenditures, the practices to silence the opposition, and so on. At that time this did not happen! After 10-10-10, we got a government that was closer to the local administration. Previously, there was…
St. Peters — The ensuing smoke from the fire on the landfill created after hurricane Irma prompted the evacuation of the residents of Pond Island, schools and the persons staying in the temporary shelters, and the Government Building. The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development, & Labor coordinated the evacuation of the thirty-three (33) persons staying at the temporary shelters in the Festival Village and the Little League Ball Park. These persons were safely transported to the Community Center in St. Peters. Shelter services such as the preparation of meals and security are in place at the location. The relocation…
