Philipsburg — Detectives of the KPSM continue to reach out to the community for information in connection with several ongoing criminal investigations. The latest request is in connection with the ongoing investigation of a shooting which took place on December 21st 2017 opposite the West Indian Village in Dutch Quarter. During this shooting a male victim was shot I his leg by an unknown assailant. After committing this act the suspect fled in a private vehicle. Detectives have spoken to several witnesses however more information is necessary to shed more light on this investigation. Anyone in the community who have…
Author: The Publisher
Dear Editor, I note with interest that persons of very different political hues (The Patriot and Russel Simmons?) are putting their minds to the question of the characteristics and personality of the most suitable candidates the voters should consider for our upcoming election. We regularly read of the need for young fresh “untainted” candidates who would not be tied to the apparently “corrupted” establishment. If we studied the experience over the past seven years we have already had numerous of such younger persons who have succeeded in being elected but in practice their performance has not resulted in the anticipated…
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…
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…
