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…
Author: The Publisher
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…
Photo caption: This morning a cruise ship (Adventure of the Seas from Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines) passing Little Bay heading towards Great Bay and the port of St. Maarten could be seen from the Cul-de-Sac valley majestically gliding past between the hills of Cay Hill and Belair. Photo StMaartenNews.com. Click to enlarge photo.
Philipsburg — During an official launching event held at the Coffee Lounge on Front Street in Philipsburg, candidate #5 on the National Alliance slate, Anna Rabess-Richardson, explained the reasons why she ended up leaving the USP party. According to Rabess-Richardson she was refused the position of Minister of TEATT because the USP board claimed that after doing their ‘due dilligence’ they found out that her husband, Mark John Rabess, has a case pending against him by the Prosecutor’s Office. Ironically, her husband works as a bailiff, both civil and criminal, with the same Prosecutor’s Office. When informed of this news,…
Philipsburg — Walmart Market 109 Associates and management south Florida pull together during the busy Christmas Holidays and purchased toys/games for children at the Sister Borgia School in St. Maarten. The children were surprised after getting back from the holidays the special gifts presented to them. Special thanks to the store managers, Kevin Perry, Market Manager and Connie Beauperthuy (St. Maarten own) store manager for teaming up with their associates of Market 109 to have a gift drive and make some children even happier. Also thanking Mr. Lloyd Rougier of KFC for aiding with the shipment down to St. Maarten.
PORT ST. MAARTEN – Representatives from Port St. Maarten will leave the island on Friday to attend the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) Platinum Associate Membership Advisory Council Cruise Summit (PAMAC) that will take place from January 13-18 on board Royal Caribbean International Independence of the Seas cruise ship. Port St. Maarten will be represented by Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Directors Fernando William, Alexander Gumbs, Business Development Officer, and Lela Simmonds (see photo), from the Cruise Business Unit. Gumbs will be participating in the destinations presentations related to recovery interventions at the Dr. A.C. Wathey Cruise & Cargo Facility…
PHILIPSBURG – Vromi-Minister Christophe Emmanuel continued his relentless attack on the media – the Daily Herald in particular – during Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed, but if you read the newspaper you are misinformed,” the minister said – and he was not joking. “I ask people to seek out what is truth, what is baseless and what are simply baseless lies.” On Tuesday he had already denied that he had ever filed a complaint against fellow minister Emil Lee, even though the Daily Herald had quoted him verbatim from a…
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance handled several looting-trials on Wednesday. The heaviest sentence was for a man who had made his truck available to transport stolen goods for a neighbor. The court sentenced the man to 4 months of imprisonment and confiscated his truck. The defendant, 54-year old Balisario Garcia, told the court that his neighbor Radamel had asked him to use his truck to pick up some items. Because the truck was new, Garcia said that he would drive it himself, with dire consequences. The public prosecutor accused Garcia and four other defendants of having goods at…
PHILIPSBURG – Unicef Netherlands will make a child protection specialist and an education specialist available to St. Maarten for a period of six months, Minister Silveria Jacobs (education) said at Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. The Unicef Netherlands representative Latoya Charles returned to the island on Wednesday for a follow up to Unicef’s recovery support in education and child support. “Charles helped the ministry to identify areas where Unicef would be able to assist,” the minister said. Student Support Services, the Youth Department and the Court of Guardianship will coordinate activities with key stakeholders. A second project is the…
