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…
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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…
Seldom do we hear a minister so outspoken – and also so angry – about an issue that touches the core of our community. Minister Silveria Jacobs went all out on Wednesday against the vulgarities that marred the Youth Extravaganza show in the Carnival Village on Monday evening – and rightly so. A show promoted as a youth event that is going to attract kids as young as six should be clean and stay far away from the sexually explicit and vulgar rap that has become the sad standard for a large part of a generation that has lost sight…
Carnival is the season of naughtiness, but one may well ask the question whether the Youth Extravaganza is the proper podium for it. We’d think that chanting Sexy Silveria is in itself harmless enough, but for the Carnival Development Foundation and the police it was one bridge too far, so they pulled the plug on a show that was designed to entertain in particular youngsters. More serious is the report that booth holders were selling alcohol to minors. That can obviously not be a reason to stop a show; it should be reason to kick such booth holders out of…
GREAT BAY- The police had the last say during the latter stages of the 2017 Youth Extravaganza, Black & White event organized by Laugh Out Loud Productions. Police officers came onto the stage after host Dutty Sham had uttered several times the words “Sexy Silveria” directed at the minister of education Laugh Out Loud organizer Andrew Dick, a reporter for the Daily Herald, said that the event was planned since last year and they wanted to do something different that involved about twenty performers. “It was made clear to all performers about vulgarity in their songs,” Dick added. Everything was…
The plight of Captain Dino has brought an issue to light that deserves the attention of our decision makers. One of the key questions in this affair, apart from the attempts to get a permit for the chicken wing shack on Kim Sha Beach, centers on the difficulties locals encounter when they want to get a little enterprise off the ground. The current policy for vending licenses stipulates that these permits are only for citizens who have no other income; the proceeds from the vending permit must be their main income. While this seems to have been inspired by a…
