PHILIPSBURG – The government has to remove the six kiosks it placed on Great Bay Beach in front of the Pasanggrahan Hotel before June 6, the Court in First Instance ruled on Friday. The hotel took the country to court because the kiosks block the view of its guests on the beach. Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs Melissa Arrindel-Doncher stated on December 15 in a public announcement that she had designated three locations on Great Bay Beach as market places for a period of 6 months. The locations are in front of the Pasanggrahan Hotel, in front of the…
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Philipsburg — The leaders of the United People’s Party (UP) and the Democratic Party (DP) have unified under one banner and founded the United Democrats, a powerhouse political movement formed to take St. Maarten through the critical reconstruction phase the island faces in 2018, according to a press release issued on behalf of the party. The press release further goes on to describe the newly formed party, United Democrats, as the historical joining of UP Honorable Member of Parliament Theodore Heyliger and DP Honorable President of Parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams. “If we take a look at the unaddressed realities since the…
Philipsburg — The management of Masters Tax Consulting in the week of January 15 through 22, 2018, will host a seminar emphasizing business recovery after Irma. The main topics are focused on measurement of corporate losses, taxation and specifics to secure cash flow with cost savings/reduction tools. The seminar provides the complete package to withstand envisioned financial adversities and encourages the use of new business techniques to sustain business continuity. For the seminar Masters Tax Consulting has joined forces with Benjamin & Parker Risk Auditors, to detail the grey zones within the Tax Law in regards of damages attributed by…
Dear Editor, I am not a betting man, but what are the odds that the Governor will be able to swear in the Interim Cabinet backed by the new majority of 8 in Parliament after Friday January 5, 2018??? Michael J. Ferrier
Philipsburg — In 2016, local software developer Gamma IT Solutions developed RXPro, a complete AIS system for the distribution of prescription and non-prescription medicines with all necessary functions and complete medical control. The robust pharmacy software is used in Aruba and Curacao, with Gamma customizing the software for each individual country. Most recently, the software was modified specifically for St. Maarten, and Gamma is proud to announce that St. Maarten officially adopted RXPro at the end of November 2017. The SZV Social & Health Insurance introduced Gamma’s RxPro to all the pharmacies in St. Maarten, where the software will offer…
Phillipsburg — The Rotary Club of St. Maarten Mid Isle has announced their president and secretary elect for the Rotary year 2018-2019. Rotarian Denise Antrobus has been named as President Elect and Aernout Kraaijeveld as Secretary Elect. Rotarian Denise said she was honored to be selected to lead this wonderful Rotary Family of Mid Isle during the year 2018-2019. She thanks the committee of past presidents for choosing her to represent Mid Isle during the next Rotary Year. She stated that it is an honor to be elected as their next president and is humbled that they have placed their…
Philipsburg — “It is like the day of yesterday, that I recall the establishment of the Beyond Writing Foundation in 2003, now named Beyond Kultura Events Foundation’s with the most important aim to enhance reading and storytelling amongst the youth”, Loekie Morales stated. “We have accomplished that with tangible results over the course of the years, not only for Sint Maarten, but for the other Dutch Windward Islands and Leeward Island as well.” Morales is the “founding mother” of this foundation and of the Caribbean Living Statues Festivals, as a unique festival with many aims. “Next to embracing our cultural…
PHILIPSBURG – One week after Hurricane Irma struck St. Maarten on September 6 of last year, the transformation of the Le Grand Marché supermarket on Bush Road into a sparkling new Carrefour Market began. It took activities around the clock, 46 containers stuffed with building materials and equipment, not to mention $4 million – but now the Carrefour Market is, as its co-owner Anil Sabnani expresses it, “one of the top supermarkets in the Caribbean.” By Hilbert Haar “We were open from 8 in the morning until 8 at night for our customers and after that from 8 at night…
THE HAGUE – The police officers that were involved in the arrest of Aruban Mitch Henriquez in June 2015 at the Parkpop festival in The Hague have appealed their convictions, their attorneys announced on Thursday. The two officers, identified only as DH01 and DH02 should have been acquitted, the defense reasons. Two weeks ago the court sentenced the two officers to a conditional prison sentence of 6 months, Elsbeth Stoker reports in the Volkskrant. According to the court, the officers ill-treated Henriquez and they are responsible for his death. The judges established that there was no intent to kill the…
AMSTERDAM/ROTTERDAM – The first black party in the Netherlands is a fact. U-buntu Connected Front (UCF) registered in Amsterdam and Rotterdam for the municipal elections of March 2018. But whether the Afro party will be successful, Aziz El Kaddouri of the research bureau EtnoBarometer is doubtful. Analysts are not hopeful about its chances The name of the party, U-buntu Connected Front, comes from Africa and means respect, solidarity and unity. “You are ubuntu if you have self-confidence and stand up for people who are humiliated or oppressed,” explains initiator, Iwan Leeuwin. “Translated to the Dutch situation you end up in…
