~ Serenity Estates disturbs the peace in Defiance ~ GREAT BAY – Real estate developer Smart Homes is causing a major headache to pensioner Fernett Payne who has been living peacefully on a property on Defiance Road since 1986. When the developer bought the adjacent plot of land for $470,000 on September 20 of last year, it did not take long before trouble started. The development of what has been loftily dubbed Serenity Estates had disturbed the peace on this quiet location in Defiance. Payne, a 67-year-old pensioner who came to the island from Antigua in 1971, says that activities…
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GREAT BAY – On Wednesday afternoon, May 4th, 2017, the Chief Prosecutor Ton Maan hosted a launching event at the Rhythm and Blues venue across from the Puerta del Sol mall in Cole Bay. The Minister of Justice, Mr. Rafael Boasman, was present and gave a speech addressing all government representatives invited for this special meeting regarding the launching of the project “Asset Recovery Team Sint Maarten”, colloquially known in Dutch as the ‘Afpakteam’ or as the ‘Pluk-me-kaal team’. At a later time in the day, it was made known that the press was also invited to witness this launch…
When you hear the name Asset Recovery Team, you can’t help but be happy. Sounds like a good thing, right? You would think that if your nice expensive car ever gets stolen, the Asset Recovery Team will be the unit to quickly recover and return your car to you. But like we say here in St. Maarten, nothing ‘t’all go so! The Asset Recovery Team Sint Maarten, or ART SXM as the Prosecutor’s Office press release so nicely describes it, has a more sinister objective. The ART is the one to take your car away from you if you cannot…
Mixing drugs with Carnival When you combine alcohol and drugs with dehydration and excessive physical exertion like that of jumping up in a parade like Jouvert, you put a tremendous toll on your body that can even have fatal results. What people tend to over-estimate is their physical ability for endurance. Your body can only take so much. Especially young people suffer from the mindset of thinking they can take anything. The final report is not in yet, so we are still speculating as to what exactly happened to Rachelle Thomas but all indications point to the fact that mixing…
The voice of reason won in Friday’s elections in Curacao but only just. Rhuggenaath’s PAR got the better of the MAN and, more importantly, Gerrit Schotte’s MFK, but the difference with those parties is just one seat. Because the PAR has excluded MFK and Amparo dos Santos party KdnT from a new coalition, he will have to work with MAN and possibly with the new party of Suzy Camelia-Römer to form a majority. Time will tell how long such a combination will be able to withstand the dark forces that are constantly at work in Willemstad to undermine fairly elected…
CAY HILL — TODAY.SX regrets to announce that Rachelle Thomas has passed away. Unofficial reports reaching TODAY.SX have indicated that 20-year-old Rachelle Thomas has succumbed to complications after being hospitalized Thursday following an alleged drugging incident which occurred during the Jouvert jump up. Reports indicate that the young lady passed away tonight of a ruptured vein, which came as a result of apparently being given a drink laced with the drug ecstasy on Thursday during the Jouvert jump up. Subsequently, Rachelle Thomas was admitted to the St Maarten Medical Centre (SMMC), where she was diagnosed and pronounced in critical condition.…
GREAT BAY – Family members and friends of 20-year-old, Rachelle Thomas, want questions answered following an incident, which allegedly occurred on Jouvert morning. According to initial reports, Thomas was allegedly given a ‘spiked’ drink, causing a vein rupture in her brain. It is alleged that Thomas was given a drink which was laced with the drug ‘Extacy’. Friends and family members of the young lady are now turning to social media to send prayers and hope for the best. Today.sx will continue to follow the development of this story on this webpage and will provide information to the public as…
GREAT BAY — According to sources inside the RBC Bank at the Cannegieter Street in Philipsburg, a man robbed a teller of an unknown amount of cash around closing time this afternoon, Friday, April 28th, 2017. The robber took the cash and casually walked out of the bank. The fact that the teller handed over so much cash to the man in such a short span of time drew the attention of the co-workers and as they approached her, she informed them that the man was a robber. The police was quickly on the scene after the incident and the…
GREAT BAY- In the weeks running up to the 2017 Soca Rumble competition sponsored by Tel Cell, expectations were high in the lyrical battle in the Groovy as well as the Power category. Soca rumble competition But only one winner could emerge in each category. King Vers did it with ‘Yap Yap’ after scoring 454 points while Kenyo A Baly who scored 419 points walked away with the Grovy title, with ‘Who Yuh Fuh’ which has been making waves on the airwaves. That win for Baly and King Vers has made them $10,000 richer but only the 1st runner up…
The term ‘culture’ is often uses as an explanation for why things are happening in a certain way. It is a weak excuse of course; an attempt to talk something right that is, in fact, totally wrong. Such is the case with a man from, admittedly, another island, who had sex with a girl of 13, while he was 46. In the book of the court such a relationship violates social-ethical standards. In common language: that’s a big non-no. But look now: according to the court ruling the girl’s mother apparently encouraged the relationship. The girl, vulnerable due to alcohol…
