Simpson Bay, St. Maarten, Customer Service Mobile Academy, CSMA opened its doors on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 with their immersed, highly anticipated partnership with the Holland House. CSMA is a new, affiliate company that falls under the auspices of Training Professionals International Firm, (TPI) the leading training and development firm that has been a trail blazer in providing accredited trainings and professional development services to some of the biggest companies on the island and throughout the Caribbean. On September 4 – 8, 2017CSMA and the Holland House will provide diverse service industry professionals from an array of business sectors with…
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GREAT BAY – The Progress Committee is not entirely “cautiously optimistic” in its first quarter report as Justice Minister Rafael Boasman said at Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. This appears from the report of which this newspaper obtained a copy. “After many months of insisting in vain for action with the government of St. Maarten the movements of the past quarter seems reason to be cautiously optimistic or, if you want, less pessimistic,” the report states about government decisions. The report indeed mentions that the prime minister expressed his support to the Progress Committee for the measures the minister…
The Progress Committee is a tad more critical of St. Maarten than Justice Minister Rafael Boasman wants us to believe. The report calls the government a bad employer and notes that the country has no access to Actpol – a critical tool for immigration and police work. Maybe it is a good sign that the Progress Committee is “less pessimistic” – one could call that a form of optimism of course. But St. Maarten is not there yet, not by a long shot. The good news is that our minister of justice is well aware of this.
AIRPORT — SXM Airport was on lockdown this afternoon around 3pm after a bombthreat notice came in to police authorities regarding a Jetblue flight B6 77 out of Boston that was scheduled to land at 11:13am this morning and only landed in St. Maarten at 3:07pm. Instead of the scheduled departure time of 7:05am, the aircraft, an Airbus A321, departed Logan International Airport at 11:12am with a four delay. The aircraft was parked on the SXM Airport runway as authorities executed searches and looked into getting the passengers safely off of the aircraft and into a safe holding area where…
GREAT BAY – Born in Brooklyn, New York, and one time St. Maarten resident, Quartishar A. Hodge (36), has self-published a children’s book under the title ‘Where Do Birds Sleep?’. The colorfully illustrated book tells the tale of two birds who journey out to various sleeping spots when it is time for everyone to go to sleep and finally answers the question where do birds go when it is time for sleep. In an interview with this newspaper, the author, known to friends and family as “Tish”, whose family originally hails from Trinidad, tells how she came up with the…
GREAT BAY – The Milton Peters College and Sundial School are celebrating their respective 40 and 50 year anniversary and on Friday, May 26th, they will be hosting a jubilee talent show and art display featuring performances from Rumer, Shakiya, King Kembe, Otmars’ Angels, Rare Diamonds and more. Also performances by present and former teachers, students and staff. This will be take place ‘Under the Tent’ at Princess Port de Plaisance starting at 8pm sharp. Tickets are on sale for $10 US Dollars and available at Van Dorp, Adolphus Office Supplies and from teachers and staff of Milton Peters College…
~ 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…
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…
