Over the past couple of months several youngsters have disappeared – temporarily or just forever. In more than one case it was about school children, just like the most recent example, last week’s disappearance of Ezekiel Morris. It would be careless to speculate about the reasons while children do not want to return home, because every case is different. This is certainly true for the two young men who disappeared from the Simpson Bay Resort on December 5 of last year, never to be seen again. The police are still investigation, but people who have not been heard of for…
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You wouldn’t know that there is a new parliament in place if it weren’t for the activities of the one man who did not win a seat: Wycliffe Smith, leader of the extra-parliamentary Christian Party. Since the elections, Smith has produced no less than thirteen opinion pieces to the print media. They drop into our mailbox regular like clockwork once a week. The fifteen elected Members of Parliament have been utterly silent since they were installed last October, making many voters wonder what these people are getting paid for. They are getting a bigger bang for their buck from Smith,…
GREAT BAY – The Court in First Instance sentenced Garfield Junior Barnes on Wednesday to 99 days of imprisonment, with 90 days suspended and 3 years of probation for a burglary he committed in a house on the Valley Estate Road on November 14, 2015. A second defendant, a 15-year old boy, was sentenced to 98 days with 90 days suspended, 3 years of probation and supervision during the probation period by the Court of Guardianship. While Barnes confessed tio his role in the burglary, the 15-year old boy denied everything. “I know nothing about this,’ he said. The prosecutor…
GREAT BAY – The Court in First Instance sentenced Shawn Emmanuel Benders on Wednesday to a 4-month prison sentence for fencing a stolen car on November 29 of last year. Benders was found driving the car with Veon Aaron P. in the passenger seat. The latter was also charged, but the court acquitted him. Benders told the court he had bought the car for $300 and that he owed the seller another $100. The court found no proof that the 22-year old Benders had actually stolen the car. The prosecutor demanded 5 months against Benders and 90 days, with 70…
GREAT BAY – The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labor is currently in the process of organizing a stakeholders sensitization session on National Health Insurance. The sessions begin next week Monday, January 23 and will be facilitated by Professor Wynand van de Ven of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam who has extensive knowledge and experience in health insurance and Dr. Stanley Lalta, who is a researcher at the University of the West Indies with special interests in the area of health financing. Professor Van de Ven has a vast wealth of knowledge on sustainable health care financing as…
GREAT BAY – Vromi-Minister Chirstophe Emmanuel and his cabinet toured the sanitary landfill commonly known as the dump with the Head of the Infrastructure Management department, Claudius Buncamper. The camera crew from the Department of Communication of the Government of Sint Maarten joined the tour to take video footage of the dump. Minister Emmanuel wanted to highlight the severity of the dump and also explain his plans to move forward with the waste-to-energy facility. Buncamper brought forth implementing a municipal waste recovery facility (MRF) which is also a possible solution for the Dump. A MRF is a plant which will…
Dear Theo, There is always a reason for something. Nothing happens “just fo so” as we like to say. It is amazing to me that you are still trying to peddle your sob stories to the public as if we are supposed to feel sorry for you or your family or forever be beholden to your grandfather’s legacy. Why do you think you are entitled to throw a pity party for us every few months? Why do you expect for us to cry a river every time you speak about being so called “persecuted”. It has gotten so bad, both…
GREAT BAY – Kendall Dupersoy has been appointed as the CEO of the TelEm Group of companies, Prime Minister William Marlin said at Wednesday’s council of Ministers press briefing. The telecom provider has been without a CEO for almost eight years, since the departure of interim manager Pieter Drenth in the fall of 2009. Dupersoy previously managed the IT department at the princess Juliana International Airport. He will start working at TelEm per February 1. The shareholder also appointed three new board members: Arnell Brown, John Richardson and Jimmy Challenger. The shareholder still has two vacancies on the board of…
GREAT BAY – In late December 2016 the National Public Holiday schedule was published. Please take note of the error regarding Emancipation Day that was mentioned in the 2017 Schedule. The correct date is Saturday July 1 as stipulated in article 23, paragraph 3a of the Labor regulation. Emancipation Day is celebrated annually on July 1 unless that day falls on a Sunday, in which case Emancipation Day is celebrated on the first next business day.
After 8 years without a CEO, local telecom provider TelEm finally gets a new Chief Executive Officer in the person of Kendall Dupersoy. The selection process has not been without controversy and certainly many within and outside the company have a lot to say about that. However, the Government as the shareholder has a finally made a decision and it is time to get moving with managing the TelEm Group of Companies with one person at the helm who is accountable and can be held responsible for the company’s actions and results. The telecom market is not without perils and…
