Philipsburg — On Friday morning November 3rd, the mother of a 14 years old student came to the Police Station to discuss an incident that occurred. She stated that on Thursday November 2nd her son was attending class at a secondary school and later in the afternoon he started to feel unwell and needed medical attention. He was taken to the Sint Maarten Medical Center where he was treated. It turned out that he was possibly drugged by an unknown person (or persons). The victim was allowed to go home the next day and his condition is stable. This is…
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Philipsburg — The Special Robbery Unit of the Police Department is presently investigating an armed robbery at the Chinese Supermarket Fresh Pond on the Sucker Garden Road. The incident took place on Saturday November 4th at approximately 15.00 p.m. The call came in to the Emergency Dispatch who immediately sent the police patrol to investigate what had taken place. On the scene the officers spoke to the victims and several witnesses. According to the information that was gathered is that one young man with a handgun threatened the employee with his weapon and took an undisclosed amount of cash from…
PHILIPSBURG – “As a minister that believes in being accountable to the people and based on recent accusations by the Prime Minister, I am in the process of requesting that SOAB, Government’s Accounting Bureau, perform an audit of the receipt and distribution of relief goods by Government and in particular the Ministry of VSA,” Minister Emil Lee (Public health, Social Development and Labor) states in a press release. “I am truly disheartened. It is so sad that in a time when the people need help and hope, politicians would fabricate stories for political gain. After working so hard after Irma,…
PHILIPSBURG – Recent accusations that Minister Lee is delaying the payments to truckers, heavy equipment operators and workers that are cleaning up the island after hurricane Irma, are simply not correct, Lee said in a press statement. “The accusations are a shameful attempt to look for a scapegoat that allows them to diffuse blame as well as serving a political objective of tarnishing the reputation of Minister Lee.” “I have absolutely no problem paying companies or workers that have participated in cleaning up the island. I am not the cause of delaying payments to the cleanup crews. Actually, the sooner…
PHILIPSBURG – During the month of October, Be The Change Foundation, through their online crowd funding platform, raised a total of USD$500 for Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC) Foundation’s project to plant native species around St. Maarten, following the disastrous effects Hurricane Irma wreaked on the island’s biodiversity. Prior to Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the Foundation conducted assessments to better understand what native plants need to be introduced to each of three sites (Cay Bay, Sentry Hill and Little Key) to increase biodiversity. Funds raised by Be The Change donors will be used to help source more plants to…
Elton Jones made an interesting observation in his opinion piece submitted to us which we published as a column on our website under the title “Vengeance”. He wrote and we quote: “It appears that the previous coalition members had assigned their signature to an agreement to dissolve Parliament should there be instability caused by ‘ship jumping'”. So as the Dutch saying goes ‘afspraak is afspraak’. Agreement is agreement. Certain coalition members of the NA-DP-USp combination did not live up to that agreement and therefore per the agreement, Parliament was dissolved after a ‘ship jumper’ caused the government to be given…
Philipsburg — On Thursday November 2nd and Friday November 3rd a total of 59 inmates that were housed at the Point Blanche Prison were relocated to detention centers in Curacao and the Netherlands. 28 of these inmates were relocated to Curacao and the remaining 31 relocated to the Netherlands. The relocation of these inmates is in connection with repairs and reconstruction work which has to be done at the Point Blanche prison due to the damage caused by hurricane Irma. The relocation of the inmates was previously announced to the public via a press release sent out by Norman Serphos…
When I sat down last week to put an article together it was with certainty that by this week we would have been placed under curatorship by the colonial masters, based on their expressions and an antiquated law. However today reality is completely different, as our (mis) leaders depending on which side you take, have taken the charade a bit further and we are now on the threshold of no responsible or respectable governance. Anything done regardless of the good intentions in a haphazard and improper way will continue to fail and fail miserably. This country within a country experiment…
POND ISLAND — Dean of Academics at the University of St. Martin, Mrs. Genève Phillip-Durham, is no longer employed with or affiliated with the University of St. Martin as of October 31st, 2017. So began an email message to our newsdesk containing a 3-page scan of a resignation letter from Mrs Genève Phillip-Durham herself addressed to the board of USM. The resignation goes into immediate effect and reads as follows…
Philipsburg – The Dominica Foundation St. Maarten (DFS) invited all Dominicans residing on St. Maarten/St. Martin to join them as they celebrated Dominica 39Th Independence Anniversary. The celebration was held on Sunday, November 5th, 2017, with activities kicking off with a church service at the Roman Catholic Church in Philipsburg at 8am. All Dominicans were encouraged to attend wearing their traditional/folklore outfit. Click here to read the further details of this invitation…
