Click on the image to enlarge… Hurricane Irma Update: Now a Category 4 storm
Author: The Publisher
GREAT BAY — Hurricane Irma is strengthening and is now a Category 4 hurricane and is moving towards the west at 13 mph. Make your final preparations because this is not good news for St. Maarten. This is a category 4 storm heading our way. More news and details to follow soon… UPDATE On the twenty-second anniversary of Hurricane Luis, St. Maarten is once more in the eye of the storm as Hurricane Irma approaches. The last update from the National Hurricane Center at 8 p.m. Monday night described Irma as a dangerous hurricane. Preparations within the warning area should…
UPDATED — The National Hurricane Center in Miami named Irma a category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour and higher gusts. At 11 a.m. on Sunday, the system was located at 17.7 N – 48.4 W. St. Maarten coordinates are 18.0425 N – 63.0548 W. Based on these coordinates, the system was 38 kilometers south of St. Maarten and 1,622 kilometers to the east. Moving at a speed of 22 kilometers per hour, it would take the storm around 74 hours to reach St. Maarten’s longitude. That puts the arrival of the storm at around…
WILLEMSTAD — The moratorium awarded to the struggling Curacao-based airline company Insel Air, whereby temporary suspension of payments was granted on March 14th of this year, has been extended until August 31st, 2018, during a creditor’s hearing held on Friday, August 25th, in the Court of Justice on the Wilhelminaplein in Willemstad, Curacao. One of the main reasons for the extension granted is the proposed strategic alliance between Insel Air and the Colombian airline company Avianca. Another reason is the proposed re-starting of service with a MD-80 jet aircraft to St. Maarten, Santo Domingo, Suriname and Jamaica. According to the…
The Police Department, the Public Prosecutors Office and the Minister of Justice are confirming the capture and arrest of Kathron Fortune a.k.a. “Cuchi” after receiving the information from the Royal Police Force of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The arrest took place on Saturday July 29th on the island of Saint Kitts. The Minister of Justice has been informed of this new development and the police department and prosecutors’ office is informing the entire community that they continue to work diligently on the escape of this extremely dangerous escaped convict. Details and other information regarding the arrest of “Cuchi” are unavailable…
Dr. Jay Haviser, archaeology students from SABARC (Saba) and SIMARC (St. Maarten), and members of Les Fruits de Mer departed Sunday, July 23rd, for the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA) conference in St. Croix with support from AirStMaarten.
CUL-DE-SAC — Another family on St. Maarten is mourning the loss of a young man. Gary Zorilla, 23 years, succumbed to his injuries in the St. Maarten Medical Center after being involved in a fight in Cole Bay Thursday night on July 20, 2017. 721news.com was live at the crime scene and reported that a group of young men with prior problems encountered each other around 10pm at the Bush Road Gas Station. A fight broke out and the patrons at the gas station called the police but the police did not arrive on time and the two groups split…
I enjoy drinking beer. Nothing beats coming up from a dive doing research in the Marine Park or after a long day in the office, ordering an ice-cold beer, and downing it in just a few swallows. I also enjoy beer because it is in my genes, with my father being Belgian I have no choice, and I enjoy the complexity of flavors, the variety, the history and the camaraderie that goes into having a few beers with friends. I do not enjoy the headache the following morning when a few turns in to too many. Unfortunately, on Sint Maarten,…
GREAT BAY – Port St. Maarten has a representative at the 20th Annual General Meeting of the Port Management Association of the Caribbean (PMAC) in the Cayman Islands. The meeting began yesterday and concludes tomorrow. Yesterday, the PMAC opened with an executive committee meeting followed by a strategic session and welcome reception in the evening. Today, opening remarks will be delivered by the chairman followed by internal organizational business matters. Tomorrow there will be a number of technical sessions. Port Management Association of the Caribbean delegates will review the Strategic Plan 2013-2017 and create an upcoming plan as it relates to 21st century continuous…
There are several ways to make a country great and some ways to make sure that this never happens. In that last category fall formalities. This thought crossed our mind when we heard Justice Minister Boasman said yesterday that “formally, the Miss Lalie Center does not exist.” The finer points related to this remark are to be found on our front page today. In the real world, the situation is that we have what former Justice Minister Dennis Richardson liked to call a youth care center. That sounds a tad friendlier than youth detention center – because that’s what it…
