Philipsburg — Last Sunday the Simpson Bay Lagoon clean up event organized by the Sint Maarten Nature Foundation and Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC) received a massive turn out with more than one hundred volunteers coming together to make a difference for the Simpson Bay Lagoon. The collaborated event was initiated through the ‘A Bit at a Time’ initiative of Mason Chadwick; with volunteers already showing great on-going effort in cleaning up the Simpson Bay Lagoon. ‘We removed wood, fiberglass, zinc, boat parts, garbage, plastics and various other objects from the entire coastline from Dinghy Dock Bar up to…
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Philipsburg — Students from the Gulliver Middle School in Miami, with the Support of Hollywood Casino, joined forces with renown Ocean Cleanup Organization 4Ocean and the Sint Maarten Nature Foundation in cleaning up beaches and wetlands in Sint Maarten. The Students organized the cleanup activities especially experiencing the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma and on their own initiative traveled to the island with representatives from 4Oceans to assist the Nature Foundation with its ongoing beach-cleanup campaigns. 4Ocean is a global movement that allows anyone from anywhere to join and help in ocean trash removal efforts worldwide. With overwhelming response from…
PHILIPSBURG – The action Book Storm, initiated by several librarians in the Netherlands to support the damaged Philipsburg Jubilee Library, has become a nationwide initiative that ends at the end of January. All Dutch libraries support the action through FOBID – the Forum of Dutch Libraries. At the end of December, Book storm had generated €4,850; the royal library will more than double this amount to €10,000 ($12,000) and transfer the funds to St. Maarten at the end of this month. There have been initiatives across the Netherlands to help the library. The Bijlmer Park theater in Amsterdam organized on…
PHILIPSBURG – All political parties are good to go for the February 26 parliamentary elections. On Tuesday afternoon, the Central Voting Bureau approved all the necessary paperwork during a brief public meeting at the parliament building. The Central Voting Bureau examined all the documents and related information parties submitted on Nomination Day. With the exception of the submission of the United Democrats, which was flawless, the bureau found discrepancies with all other parties. While these discrepancies are seemingly details – a wrong address, an incorrect date of birth, a missing decree of registration at the Electoral Council – the Central…
by Hilbert Haar Holding elections is a seemingly simple affair. You establish a party, if you have them you put the maximum of 23 candidates on your list and you are good to go. But during every election we see parties stumble over simple rules. The Central Voting Bureau kindly describes these mistakes as discrepancies. Shocking they are not, most of those discrepancies, though eyebrows ought to go up when a party forgets to submit the decree that confirms its proper registration with the Electoral Council. That prize went this time to the St. Maarten Development Movement and to a…
GREAT BAY – As a follow-up to a unanimous decision of the newly installed incoming Council of Ministers (COM), a delegation consisting of Minister of Finance, Michael Ferrier, Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor, Emil Lee, Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure, Miklos Giterson and Deputy Minister Plenipotentiary Hasani Ellis, were given a tour of the Sint Maarten Airport Terminal Building (ATB) in the afternoon of Monday, January 15, the same day the Council was sworn in. Prior to his departure to Curaçao for his first ‘Justitieel Overleg (JVO)’, Minister of Justice Cornelius de Weever,…
Simpson Bay — The Atrium Resort has taken steps to remediate the outflow drainage at its resort and has also cleaned the area of debris at the Old Simpson Bay Bridge. “We were very happy to see that after discussions with representatives at the hotel the discharge issue was remediated and the drainage was halted. The resort also cleaned up the area of trash and debris immediately behind the resort at the old Simpson Bay Bridge. We are especially grateful for this since this is also included debris illegally dumped, including pallets from a nearby supermarket and from contractors who…
Philipsburg — The Detective Department continues the investigate the case into the fatal stabbing of a man identified with initials D.W.W. which took place on Saturday November 18th 2017 at approximately 07.40 p.m. on Genip Road in Sint Peters. The suspect in this case identified with initial F. was arrested shortly after the incident. Investigators have spoken to several witnesses however they would like to have more information from persons who witnessed what took place. If anyone has information that can shed more light on this investigation should get in contact with police department by calling 54-22222 ext. 223 or…
Philipsburg — The Special Unit Robbery of KPSM is requesting assistance from the community in connection with an ongoing armed robbery investigation. This armed robbery took place at the Texaco Starmart located on Welfare road on November 27th 2017. The suspect entered the establishment on that day dressed as a construction-worker and committed his act taking an undisclosed amount of cash. After committing this act the suspect fled the scene. No suspect has been arrested or identified in this case as yet and the police department is asking everyone in the community who has information in connection with this case…
By Hilbert Haar With around forty days left until February 26, six political parties are gearing up for the elections nobody wanted on February 26. We know who they are: the United Democrats (UD – Theo Heyliger and Sarah Wescot-Williams), the National Alliance (NA – Silveria Jacobs), the United St. Maarten party (USp – Frans Richardson), the People’s Progressive Alliance (PPA – Gracita Arrindell), the St. Maarten Christian Party (SMCP – Wycliffe Smith) and the St. Maarten Development Movement (SDM – Benjamin Ortega). But do we know what they stand for? Until the emergence of the SMCP St. Maarten did…
