NEW YORK — While attending the International Donor’s Conference in New York, coordinated by the United Nations Development Program, Minister of Justice Rafael Boasman had the distinct pleasure to meet and converse with former US President Bill Clinton during a lunch hosted by the chairman of CARICOM for heads of states and heads of government. Clinton expressed his heartfelt sympathy to the people of St. Maarten for the damage they suffered with the passing of the Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria. Clinton was a speaker at the two days CARICOM-UN pledging conference held in New York on November 21st. In…
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PHILIPSBURG — Ekta Foster-Lachmandas a graduate of St Dominic High School’s Class of 2008 successfully defended her PhD thesis on November 15, before the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen. The title of her dissertation was Host Response to Tuberculosis: Impact of Diabetes and Cellular Metabolism of Immune Cells. Radboud University Medical Center Media Relations Office issued the following summary of Ekta’s thesis: She “has examined host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, integrating immunology and cellular metabolism, in the laboratory of the Experimental Internal Medicine of Radboudumc and the A-star institute in Singapore. Part of her work specifically…
Grand Case, St. Martin—While St. Martin waits for tourists to return, the island’s other seasonal guests have been quietly arriving. Migratory birds travel thousands of miles every year to spend the winter here. The fifth-annual Migratory Bird Festival celebrates these birds from 9am to noon on Saturday, November 25th at Kali’s Beach Bar in Friar’s Bay. The event is free and open to all. “Welcome back! is our theme this year,” explained Jenn Yerkes, President of Les Fruits de Mer, the association that organizes the festival. “We’re welcoming back the birds, and after the destruction caused by Hurricane Irma, we’re also…
~ Deadline to register new political parties November 23, 2017 ~ Philipsburg: The Electoral Council of Sint Maarten hereby reminds any prospective political party that in order to participate in the parliamentary elections on February 26, 2018, it is required to apply for the registration of the party and its reference with the Electoral Council no later than Thursday, November 23, 2017. According to article 16 of the National Ordinance on Registration and Finances of Political Parties: new parties must submit a written application to register the party with the Electoral Council. Together with the application for registration of the…
~ Queen Wilhelmina Library Donation Drive in aid of the Philipsburg Jubilee Library ~ PHILIPSBURG — The Philipsburg Jubilee Library is pleased to announce it has received $900 from Saba’s Queen Wilhelmina Library. Saba’s Queen Wilhelmina Library organized a fundraiser drive held on Monday October 23rd 2017, to assist St. Maarten’s library after the passing and destruction of Hurricane Irma and Maria to the library’s structure. The much needed funds will be used for new materials and activities for children’s programs that will be hosted by the library in the hopes to continue encouraging a reading community among St. Maarten…
SIMPSON BAY — The investigation into the cause of the death of a two years old infant who was ran over by a car on Sunday, November 19th, at approximately 1:30pm in the parking area of Buccaneers Beach Bar and which was done by the police traffic department has resulted to be an unfortunate “traffic accident”. The victim was struck by a car while the driver was reversing but could not see him. The child was treated on the scene by paramedics, but was passed away at approximately 2:45pm later that day. After the in depth investigating at scene of…
SIMPSON BAY – The Simpson Bay Lagoon Authority (SLAC) announces that the Simpson Bay Causeway Swing Bridge has been repaired and resumed daily bridge openings for vessels on Tuesday, November 21. The swing bridge daily opening times are 8.00AM, 10.00AM and 3.30PM. An operational assessment of the Causeway swing bridge was carried out last month by engineers from Hollandia. The swing bridge which falls under the Lagoon Authority has been open to limited marine traffic since the passing of Hurricane Irma on September 6. The Swing Bridge on the Causeway is 220 feet long and weighs 450 tons. The Causeway…
HILVERSUM – Blocked on Facebook, out of a job or publicly unmasked as a racist. These are all scenarios you have to consider if you sent a racist message into the world, Natasja Gibbs reports on Caribisch Netwerk. An increasing number of people, among them Antillean-Dutch, are fed up and they have only one goal: naming and shaming racists. They are the busiest in the period around the Sinterklaas-celebration. “Can’t we just exterminate all niggers? At least that will put a stop to all that whining about racism.” This is one of hundreds of public social media posts that have…
As we at stmaartennews.com like to sometimes take our inspiration from Facebook – most times we take our inspiration anywhere we can get it – we sent our cartoonist James Baggett to the drawing board for this one specially for Mrs. Benders. Her post on Seasonal vs Seasoned Politicians reminded us of the story of a reporter who went out for dinner with two politicians to interview them for their upcoming election. After her night out with the first politician, she reported back to her editor that she thought he was the most interesting person in the world. Everyone in…
Willemstad, Curacao — From November 16th to 19th Pony affiliated members of the Caribbean Zone got together at Lagun Court in Banda Bow in Curacao, for the Pony Annual Baseball/Softball meeting. During this meeting the Pony Caribbean Zone were discussing the results of the 2017 tournaments and planning for the upcoming 2018 events. The Countries of the Pony Caribbean Zone that attended the meeting were Curacao, Santo Domingo, Aruba, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Puerto Rico and St. Maarten. Attendees from St. Maarten were Esmay Thomas, Wilfred James, Nadia Brown and Gabriel Brown.
