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…
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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…
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (January 3, 2018)—Language, Culture and Identity in St. Martin by Rhoda Arrindell, a leading St. Martin linguist, has won the Graphic Design USA Award according to Gordon Kay, editor of the GDUSA magazine. Carole Maugé-Lewis designed the winning book cover for the House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP) title, said Jacqueline Sample, president of the St. Martin indie press. In his letter to HNP in December, Kay congratulated Sample “and the House of Nehesi Publishers on the award-winning performance in our 54th Annual American Graphic Design Awards.” Kay called the design performance by Maugé-Lewis “exceptional.” Prof. Maugé-Lewis is…
The news that Cable TV workers found themselves locked out despite a court ruling in their favor shows the limitations all workers in a post-Irma environment can and will be facing: lifetime employment is a thing of the past. Other than starting their own business to provide the cable tv services that Telem may be willing to make use of, a workers cooperative may be the only solution for the workers to unite themselves under and provide their expertise to the market they have been working all these years in. According to Wikipedia, Cooperatives may be classified as either worker, consumer, producer, purchasing or housing…
PHILIPSBURG – Hurricane Irma has inspired entrepreneurs to bring new products to the island. A prime example is the Envirodome, a portable shelter the Alaska-based company Intershelter produces. A model of the shelter can be seen on the parking lot behind Cost U Less in Philipsburg. The shelters consist of 21 panels and can be assembled in just a couple of hours by three people; no training necessary. At a price of just over $18,600, establishing a village of fifty such shelters for currently homeless hurricane victims would cost the government less than a million dollars and house around 250…
Marigot–Miss Teen Saint Martin 2017-2018; Tasyanna Clifton, made history for being the first contestant from Saint Martin to be crowned Haynes Smith Miss Caribbean Talented Teen Queen 2017-2018. In front of hundreds, Tasyanna demonstrated grace, confidence, intellect and natural talent in every segment at the pageant on Saturday 30th December 2017 at the Marriott ball room in St. Kitts. Tasyanna was competing with contestants from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St Kitts and St Lucia. Besides being crowned Haynes Smith Miss Caribbean Talented Teen Queen 2017-2018, Tasyanna walked away with the titles of best theatrical appearance (which includes speech) and…
