Pinel Island may not be on the Dutch side of the island but the location is still a unique party of our tourism product. Now a developer has announced plans to use this idyllic spot for the development of an ecolodge – twenty huts and a restaurant we have been made to understand. Is this progress? Or is this just another developer ready to make a buck, destroying a piece of natural habitat in the process? No matter how ecological responsible the design is, construction on such a small and endearing islet will put pressure on its eco system that…
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GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Tourist Bureau hosted a VIP welcome reception at the Princess Juliana International Airport to honor Tamillia Chance, a local songstress who competed in the hit reality TV show The Voice Kids. Twelve year old Tamillia was presented with an achievement award by the bureau’s representatives Lisa Noel and Cherinah Franken. She was greeted with live steel pan entertainment, surrounded by fans, family and friends who cheerfully welcomed her. Photo caption: Lisa Noel (left) and Cherinah Franken present Tamillia Chance with an award. Photo contributed
Massive gathering turned up at the Royal Funeral Home and Crematorium to bid farewell to the late Samuel Rueben Augustus Allen Jr. last Friday, October 14th, 2016. Photo caption: Steven Cyrillien, co-worker and long-time friend of Allen Jr. greets Brenda. Photo Today / Milton Pieters PM Marlin at funeral Samuel Allen Jr. “His voice was a reflection of his personality” By Milton Pieters GREAT BAY- The lives he impacted was reflected in the massive gathering that turned up at the Royal Funeral Home and Crematorium to bid farewell to the late Samuel Rueben Augustus Allen Jr. last Friday. Governor Eugène…
GREAT BAY – Three weeks after the parliamentary elections held on September 26, only seven of the 125 candidates who contested the parliamentary elections on September 26, submitted their donation registration to the Electoral Council. Deadline is October 26 The Electoral Council notes with concern that with less than two weeks left before the deadline, close to 95% of the candidates who vied for a parliamentary seat, have yet to comply with the National Ordinance on Registration and Finances of Political Parties. “The remaining 118 candidates are hereby strongly advised to submit their donation registration to the Electoral Council ultimately…
The Electoral Council sent out a rather alarming press release, stating that 95 percent of the 125 candidates that took part in the September 26 elections have not yet registered the donations they received. One would think that the rules of the game are sufficiently known to all those aspiring politicians and that the parties they represented have properly informed them. True, there are still two weeks to go before the deadline, but when just 7 out of 125 have submitted their data, it is tempting to think that most candidates just don’t give a hoot. Interestingly, without registering the…
WILLEMSTAD – After party leader Gerrit Schotte, the number two on the list of Movementu Futuro Kòrsou (MFK), Jacinta Constancia, has also announced that she is prepared to give up her seat in parliament for the duration of an investigation against her if this frees the way for the MFK being part of talks about the formation of the next government. Currently MAN, PAR, PNP and PS have signed letter declaring their preparedness to form the next government. these parties have 12 seats in the new 21-seat Curacao parliament. Schotte’s party narrowly lost the elections to MAN with 12,839 vs.…
BRIDGETOWN – Prime Minister William Marlin, accompanied by the Head of the Department of Foreign Relations Khalilah Peters and the Policy Advisor for Donor Coordination from the Department of Interior and Kingdom Relations Olivia Lake attended the two day High Level EU- Caribbean Sustainable Energy Conference on October 10 and 11 in Bridgetown Barbados. This conference was primarily focused on Caricom/Cariforum and EU relations however the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) as well as the French Overseas Regions (ORs) were invited to partake in this conference. The inclusion of all groupings in the region was to impress that energy supply…
GREAT BAY – The Rotary Club of St. Maarten hosts an evening of poker, Bingo and excitement next week Friday at the Hollywood Casino in Pelican Key. “For those that remember the event last year, it was a great time and a new and exciting way to help raise funds for projects supported by the Rotary Club of St. Maarten particularly in the areas of youth literacy, education, after school programs, and health/nourishment,” the club’s president Henna Budhrani says “Registration for the poker and Bingo tournament begins at 6.30 p.m., along with poker lessons, light snacks and cocktails. A $100…
Two cases stand out in today’s newspaper: the employee that got fired by a supermarket and a girl who got a beating from her stepfather. What do a 37-year-old supermarket worker and a 12-year old kid have in common? Well, for one, they are of course both of the female gender and two, they were both at the receiving end of some sort of violence. This may be a men’s world, as the song says, but sexual intimidation of employees and beating up a girl because she is sucking her teeth at the request to do the washing up are…
GREAT BAY – The investigation into vote buying before the 2014 elections by MP Silvio Matser and twenty others started when investigators got wind of something amiss in the so-called Maas-investigation into three bank robberies that took place in 2014. One of the suspects in at least one of these robberies was Widnor Francis B., who is now also a suspect in the vote buying case. The link between the bank robbery-investigation and the vote buying case came to light in court yesterday, when the attorney for Widnor B., Sharia Bommel, asked the court to provide her with all phone…
