THE HAGUE – Two hundred farmers will soon be generating electricity from cow manure and there are plans to recruit 1,000 in four years, reports NOS on Tuesday. FrieslandCampina, the largest dairy collective in the Netherlands, set up a business in September called Jumpstart to channel subsidies to farmers who want to install mono-digesters that break down waste into biogas. Henk Kamp, minister for economic affairs, has committed €150m to the project and turned on the first mono-digester in Friesland on Tuesday morning. FrieslandCampina plans to pay farmers a surcharge of €10 per thousand litres of milk they sell if they buy a…
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THE HAGUE – Driver’s licenses could be available as a phone app in the next few years under plans proposed by the vehicle licensing service. Bas van den Berg, head of the driver’s licenses unit at the RVW agency, said the technology for mobile licenses was in development. ‘You’ll download an app from the store and the details of your driver’s license will be stored in a secure manner,’ he said. The proposal came on the day when paper driver’s licenses officially expired. The Telegraaf reported that around 300,000 old-style licenses had not been handed in, even though drivers risk…
GREAT BAY – Hypnotic Entertainment and JMC Investments have been declared bankrupt by the Court in First Instance yesterday. Hypnotic and JMC (James Martin Carti) operated the former Seaman’s Club brothel in Sucker Garden on a permit it leased from Richbenzwan, but it could not keep up with the $18,000 monthly payments. After several court cases the companies all lost against the permit holder, they sought protection from the court with a request for delay of payments, but yesterday it was over and out.
From our Today Newspaper Online desk: “The Dutch Kingdom Government has approved the re-appointment of Governor Eugene Holiday for another term of six years until 2022.” More details to follow in the next edition of the Today newspaper. Click here>>>
GREAT BAY – TelEm Group and RBC Merchant Bank (Caribbean) Ltd. announced the signing of a $32 million Bond agreement after months of negotiations. The TELeM Group uses the bond issue to finance future capital expenditure and refinance current debt obligations. This bond supplements an €8 million loan obtained from the European Investment Bank (EIB) last year for an island-wide Fibre to the Home project. According to Andrew Boissiere – Vice President Corporate and Investment Banking and TelEm Group Chief Financial Officer Helma Etnel, the bond agreement was officially signed in August 2016 and represents a significant achievement for both…
Work on the replacement of drinking water and sewage lines in downtown Marigot began at the end of July and is now about halfway through the four months that were scheduled for the project’s completion. Photo caption: Workers are busy in the Rue de la Liberté. Photo Today / Leo Brown
WILLEMSTAD –MAN won the elections in Curacao on Wednesday with 16.2 percent of the vote. Behind MAN are MFK (Movementu Futuro Kòrsou) with 16 percent and PAR (Partido Antiá Restruckturá) 15.1 percent. All three parties won four seats in the 21-seat parliament, that will consists of eight factions. The new party KDNT (Kòrsou Di Nos Tur) van Amparo dos Santos won three seats, PNP (Partido Nashonal di Pueblo) and Pueblo Soberano won two seats each and the Movementu Progressivo van Marilyn Moses and Omayra Leeflang’s Un Kòrsou Hustu one seat each. The question is now with which parties MAN will…
GREAT BAY – The appeal of MP Silvio Matser against his conviction for tax fraud with his now defunct construction company Energizer was postponed yesterday afternoon at the request of the defense that wants to hear two additional witnesses. The case will now be heard on December 13, providing that the interviews with the witnesses have taken place before that date. In January 2015, the court sentenced Matser to 24 months of imprisonment for a string of fiscal offenses. Energizer was sentenced to a fine of 4.5 million guilders. Of Matser’s sentence, 18 months are suspended and he’ll have to…
Photo caption: On September 23, striking pro bono attorneys marched to the Ministry of Justice on Illidge Road, supported by several civil law attorneys. File photo Today / Milton Pieters GREAT BAY – The strike of the pro bono lawyers ended yesterday, Cor Merx, chairman of the criminal justice section of the Bar Association announced. “Everyone who had outstanding claims has been more or less paid and that is good to hear. Those who have not been paid in full did indicate that the amount they received was substantial.” Merx noted that the increased tariffs will be applied to the…
GREAT BAY – Pro bono lawyers are still on strike and the effects were felt in court again yesterday when Felix Floyd Crawford appeared before judge Yvonne Vanwersch for handling the prosecution’s demand to strip him of his criminal profits. Crawford insisted on having his attorney Sjamira Roseburg present and the court saw no other option than to postpone the case until November 24. In July, the court sentenced Crawford to 20 years for nine home burglaries, four armed robberies, one count of attempted manslaughter on a police officer and firearm and ammunition possession. Crawford committed his crimes between December…
