Great Bay – The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labour (VSA) partnered with SXM Power Project to provide generators to households without power since the passing of Hurricane Irma. Certain areas within some of our districts such as St. Peters, Sucker Garden, Dutch Quarter, Middle Region, South Reward, Saunders and Bush road were still without electricity, notwithstanding that GEBE is working diligently on restoring electricity throughout the island in order to bring back a sense of normality to all residents. The SXM Power Project, established by the Neus family residing in the United States of America and St.…
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Philipsburg — Three hundred and sixty eight families in St. Maarten benefited from a relief exercise hosted by the St. Maarten Tzu Chi Foundation on Sunday, November 5. The relief activity, which was held at Tzu Chi’s location on the LB Scott Road, was organized to enable the foundation to continue its relief distribution efforts in the country. A total of 33 Tzu Chi volunteers got together to help ensure that the drive ran smoothly. The volunteers lovingly distributed a total of 5,000 (2,272.72 kg) pounds of rice, 690 polo tops, 720 pairs of sandals and 600 packages of cookies to…
Philipsburg — ENGAGE foundation and the Coffee Lounge have teamed up to support the Philipsburg Jubilee Library with a 10 hour read-a-thon. The Read-a-thon is the brainchild of the Engage Foundation, as the foundation strongly believes in the power of literature and its importance in building our nation and empowering its people. The foundation was saddened to learn of the damages hurricane Irma caused to the Philipsburg Jubilee Library. As Andrew Carnegie so fittingly stated “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” The…
PHILIPSBURG — Gracita states: “just recently back home after attending an intense work-shop of the ‘Living University’, this time in Rotterdam, Holland, I am grateful for the overwhelming support extended during the seminars to the People of Sint Maarten in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.” ‘LIVING UNIVERSITY’ WORK SHOP HELD IN ‘BLUE CITY‘ Professor Gunter Pauli together with his team (Javier Morales, Charles van de Heijden) special guest-lecturer, legendary Dr. Anders Nyquist founder of EcoCycleDesign and attendees many who hail from a diverse innovative -professional backgrounds, dedicated part of the sessions to provide hands on solutions to some of the…
Kamau Brathwaite in Liviticus – like the Psalmist in Babylon; like the weeping prophet, a book review by John Robert Lee MARTIN, Caribbean (November 2017)—Liviticus, published in 2017 by House of Nehesi Publishers, is a new collection that is at once a moving confessional poem, in which Kamau Brathwaite writes honestly, frankly, disturbingly on what he calls his “cultural lynching.” He holds nothing back as he cries, like the prophet Jeremiah, about his suffering: “The caul of fat around my liver and the shining budget of my kidneys / are laid out upon the altar of the Lord / surrounded…
Maybe there is some silent diplomacy going on behind the scenes; we don’t know that. But to the public eye it seems right now that St. Maarteners who fled to the Netherlands after Hurricane Irma and who are encountering difficulties registering in municipalities like Haarlem are left out in the cold by the government of St. Maarten. It is bad enough that Haarlem stubbornly denies Irma-refugees their most basic rights as Dutch citizens. The national ombudsman, Reinier van Zutphen, has in the meantime intervened with questions to Home Affairs Minister Kasja Ollongren. But the refugees have so far, and as…
PORT ST. MAARTEN – Port St. Maarten Management is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the first cruise passenger experience on December 4th when the first commercial cruise ship returns to the destination, will be one of discovery for the guests to return on another cruise to the destination in the future. “We want the world to know that we are open for business and the first ambassadors to greet our guests will be our various cruise stakeholders. I want to commend Port St. Maarten management for initiating these sessions to ensure that everyone is on the same page…
GREAT BAY — HNLMS Pelikaan (A804), the logistic support vessel of the Royal Dutch Navy docked at the port in St. Maarten on Monday afternoon. The spokeswoman for the navy in the Caribbean, Canan Babayigit, told stmaartennews.com that the rotating element of marines in St. Maarten is currently on a scouting exercise in Saba and Statia. During this training the marines get to know the environment of the islands. The Pelikaan is currently sailing between the three islands of St. Maarten, Saba and Statia to transport the marines. On Tuesday the Pelikaan placed parts of buoys near Statia. Photo Hilbert…
Grand Case—Each year, the Les Fruits de Mer association hosts the Migratory Bird Festival on St. Martin. The stars of this festival are the birds that travel so far to come here each year, and the wild places and creatures they depend on. This lively cast of characters—birds, crabs, mangroves and the ponds themselves—is featured in the new ebook Pond Life: Reflections. The book is available for free download at lesfruitsdemer.com. “Migratory pond birds—like wading birds and ducks—are common and easy to see on St. Martin,” explained author Mark Yokoyama. “Ponds are also some of the most important places on…
GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending that farmers and the food industry stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals. The new WHO recommendations aim to help preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics that are important for human medicine by reducing their unnecessary use in animals. In some countries, approximately 80% of total consumption of medically important antibiotics is in the animal sector, largely for growth promotion in healthy animals. The WHO message is related to United Nations WHO, World Antibiotic Awareness Week (13-19 November) that kicked off on…
