By Hilbert Haar The interim government that will take office on Monday is, as some may agree with me, a curious bunch. For the first time in its history, the country will have a ship jumper in the seat of the prime minister – Leona Marlin-Romeo. I remember vividly, because I was there, how our designated interim PM said at a press conference hosted by United St. Maarten party-leader Frans Richardson to kill rumors that she was going to jump ship: “I am not going anywhere.” Not too long afterwards, Marlin-Romeo left the USp and joined a coalition with the…
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Philipsburg — His Excellency Governor Eugene B. Holiday delivered his New Year’s Message on Friday evening at his New Year’s Reception on the Captain Hodge Wharf for dignitaries and invited guests. The Governor’s New Year’s Message is as follows: Ladies and Gentlemen, Good evening and welcome to this New Year’s reception. To begin this NEW YEAR, Marie-Louise and I, are pleased to extend warm greetings and best wishes to you and to the people of Sint Maarten. May our coming together from various sections of our community this evening, serve to help reignite the progress our country needs in the days,…
GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – The Collective Prevention Services (CPS), a department of the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour, is calling on the community to practice hand hygiene and cough etiquette in order to prevent the spread of influenza. Symptoms of the flu include sudden onset of fever, cough (usually dry), headache, muscle and joint pain, sore throat and a runny nose. The cough can be severe and can last two or more weeks. Most people recover from fever and other symptoms within a week. However, influenza can cause severe illness or death in high-risk groups…
By Hilbert Haar Much has been said and written about the violation of constitutional rules related to the upcoming elections. Those violations have occurred because our lawmakers got lost in the way they have established those rules. It feels like an innocent factual observation in article 59 of the Constitution that Nomination Day – also known under the more Christian term Postulation Day – has to take place between 80 and 90 days before the term of the current Parliament ends or before the date when the Parliament is being dissolved. The constitution also establishes that, when the government decides…
PHILIPSBURG – A man with two aliases who is currently detained in the Pointe Blanche prison saw an attempt to regain possession of items the prosecutor’s office confiscated twice, strand in the Court in First Instance on Friday. Spas Iliev Tsokinov is according to court documents also known as Miguel Rodriguez and as Angel Reyes. In 2017, Tsokinov was held on suspicion of using a forged passport. On that occasion, the prosecutor’s office confiscated several passports, ID cards and driver’s licenses, as well as two credit cards, a bank card, two laptops, a hard drive, two cell phones , a…
Harbour View – On January 12, 2018, His Excellency the Governor of Sint Maarten, drs. E.B. Holiday, received the updated final report from formateur S. Wescot-Williams. The formateur has accepted the commission to form an interim new government supported by a majority in Parliament comprised of the UP-fraction, the DP-fraction, and Member of Parliament C.E. Brownbill. The new government consists of Ministers who are committed to the promotion of the wellbeing of Sint Maarten, who will amongst others give priority to concluding the development of a recovery plan, to the agreement with the Netherlands on the financing of the recovery…
Willemstad/Philipsburg — The recruitment campaign ‘Lawyer in the Caribbean’ of VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne was awarded the ‘Gouden Toga’ (Golden Robe) for 2017. This award for the best legal recruitment campaign is presented annually by the Dutch legal magazine Mr. On Friday 5 January 5, managing partner Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer and associate Vincent Abbing received the ‘Gouden Toga’ in Amsterdam. The winner of the ‘Gouden Toga’ is chosen every year by a jury of experts in the field of HR and Communication. This year’s jury included, amongst others, a lawyer and a professor of Organization and Legal Services. Other nominees for…
by Jacob Gelt Dekker The cable media may have exhausted you with micromanagement gossip accounts of a dysfunctional President of the United States, so for a change, join me for a very brief review of to-be-expected-global-conflicts. We have two triangles, one in Africa, and one in the Middle East. You may argue that another continental one lingers in Asia, but hey, everything is always potentially ready to blow up. So I will ignore Rocket-man in North Korea with an economy, a GDP, about 50% of the city of Amsterdam. The African triangle may become the end of our world The…
Dear Editor, Through this medium I would like to comment on the article in The Daily Herald on Wednesday Jan 10th on the visit of the presidents of the first and second chamber, Mrs. Ankie-Broekers-Knol and Mrs. Khadija Arib. Councilman van Putten is quoted as saying that the meeting was constructive and meaningful. At the same token he accused the opposition party, whose members also attended the meeting, of having a malicious approach by spreading one-sided, misguided, and baseless information. Such accusations in my humble opinion do not categorize under the heading of constructive and meaningful. On the other hand,…
Simpson Bay — Sint Maarten’s most important wetland, Mullet Pond, was cleared of the massive houseboat that sank after Hurricane Irma on Wednesday. With the help of local dive company Atlantech Divers the Foundation was able to remove the houseboat to a location outside of the conservation zone. “We are so very grateful to the team from Atlantech Divers Jaco Pieterse and Mason Chadwick for their assistance in removing the houseboat,” commented Tadzio Bervoets, Nature Foundation Manager. The Foundation previously cleaned and restored sections of Mullet Pond as part of the organization’s environmental response post hurricanes Irma and Maria, however…
