To make things simpler for the private sector requests for an inspection for an operational license in the horeca-sector (bars, restaurants, hotels) will no longer be accepted at the Yellow Building (Tamarinde Steeg 16) we learn from a press release from the Ministry of Tourism and Economic Affairs. These requests will now have to go to the section economic control. They’re at Cannegieter Street 23. However, before visiting the section economic control, entrepreneurs have to go for the initial application, to the department of economic licenses. Their offices are located at Zoutsteeg 3. We thought that the 21st centrury started…
Author: The Publisher
This Grand Case by Night special about the Grand Case dining scene was printed on Friday, December 9th, 2016, in the paper version of the TODAY newspaper as a 4-page full colour supplement. This supplement was sponsored by Amigo Tours, StMaartenTours.info, St. Maarten Airport Taxi Association, Dutch St. Maarten Taxi Association and Genesis Taxi Service. This supplement is now published permanently online in the RESTAURANTS, NIGHTLIFE and ENTERTAINMENT sections on the TODAY Newspaper Online website with all the hyperlinks active to help increase and improve the websites ranking, findability, visibility and popularity of the aforementioned sponsors. Please read and enjoy this…
GREAT BAY – Cruise Company Princess has to pay the American government $40 million for environmental violations. In 2013, investigators discovered a ‘magical pipe’ at one of the company’s cruise vessels; the pipe was illegally pumping oil into the ocean. ‘Magical pipe’ used to dump oily water into the ocean It appeared that Princess already used this ‘solution’ since 2005 to get rid of water polluted with oil for free instead of paying for waste disposal and processing. In one discharge, the vessel pumped 16,000 liters of oil-polluted water into the ocean, 35 kilometers out of the coast of Great…
In any society the ultimate objective of right thinking political, trade union and private sector leadership should be to design a structure for society so as to ultimately engender happiness among the people that they serve. This means that addressing issues such as net foreign exchange earnings, use of natural resources, education and training, high productivity employment for fair compensation, transportation, health and sanitation, food, clothing and housing is paramount. These may be partitioned into productive sector issues and service sector issues. The productive sectors, which are traditionally the domain of the private sector (structured to do business), grow the…
Princess Cruise Lines is “extremely disappointed in its personnel,” the company said after it received a $40 million fine in a court in Miami for environmental violations that have been going on since 2005. We have never had any illusions about cruise companies and this statement adds to this feeling. We figure that, to install what has been called a ‘magical pipe’ that enables a cruise vessel to dump thousands of liters of oil-polluted water into the ocean, you need to know something about the construction of these huge floating hotels. The personnel members who work on these ocean mammoths…
Marijuana poses a greater mental health risk than any other substance, including class A drugs, according to new research out of Denmark. Regular users of the herb, particularly its super-strength varieties, were found to be 5.2 times more likely to develop schizophrenia than non-users. This compares to 1.9 times more likely in the case of hallucinogenic drugs and 1.24 times for amphetamines. To ascertain the link between marijuana use and schizophrenia, the researchers combed the medical records of more than 3.1 million people. The mass medical records search looked at people diagnosed as being marijuana abusers by doctors and those…
Okay, the numbers are from the Netherlands but a divorce rate of 40 percent is still something that warrants out attention here. The institute of marriage is no longer the rock solid recipe for a happy future, and the divorce rate only tells half the story because many couples don’t even bother and opt for simply living together – yet they do split up as well. The consequences of this trend for any community are devastating; single parent families are struggling to make ends meet and they have less time to spend with their children who are more often than…
GREAT BAY – United St. Maarten party leader MP Frans Richardson has vehemently denied that he is a shareholder of Checkmate Security, saying that he is “in no way, shape or form connected or part of any management team and shareholder” of the company. Richardson stated that the Checkmate-director is a friend of his and that he has known him since he was a child. The term ‘childhood friend’ is incorrect according to the statement, given the fact that Richardson is 15 years older than the Emerald-suspect. We publish the unabridged text of Richardson’s statement today on our Letters to…
GREAT BAY—An employee of the New Love Restaurant says he was harassed by several men and a woman on the Boardwalk early on Wednesday morning. Patrick Pascaud who was born in the Netherlands says he was at work in the restaurant when a white woman asked for his identification card. “Who are you and what do you want my ID card for?” he asked. The woman repeated the question and he again asked her who she was. She did not answer but went away and came back with four men. He claims that when the men came, one of them…
By Hilbert Haar GREAT BAY – The Cadastre office has struggled in the past with incompetent employees and notorious troublemakers, it appears from internal correspondence this newspaper has in its possession. But some of the troublemakers of the past are now part of the Cadastre’s management team. Remarkably, there are no locals in the current management team. Franklin Ch. is from Statia, Robert B. from the Netherlands and Marcia P. is from St. Lucia-Anguilla descent. The Cadastre appointed one employee, identified as Austin Ph. in 2011 as a surveyor, after having worked as an assistant before. But in the course…
