GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – The St. Maarten Fire Department on Thursday responded to two fires. At 9.38 AM the Fire Department received a call about a small fire which turned out to be Ambulance on fire in front of the St. Maarten Academy PSVE School in Ebenezer. The Fire Department arrived on the scene at 9.48 AM. The driving time to this location is approximately 8-12 minutes. Due to the materials and equipment present in the ambulance, the fire spread rapidly and created a lot of smoke. The presence of magnesium in the ambulance created a serious reaction…
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GREAT BAY – “It is clear that attorney Merx and Mr. Matser do their best to avoid this case,” Judge Dirk Gruijters noted drily when MP Matser failed to show up for a pro forma hearing in the Court in First Instance yesterday. The case at hand is about accusations of vote buying during the 2014 elections. The no-show of Mater and Merx has a history. On September 21, when he was due to appear in court five days before the parliamentary elections, Matser was a no show as well. The prosecutor said at the time that, when a bailiff…
GREAT BAY – When his 12-year-old stepdaughter sucked her teeth on April 4 at the request to do the washing up, her 51-year-old stepfather Sylvio Martina lost it and he slapped the child in her face; shortly afterwards he hit her on her legs with a belt. That cost him 80 hours of community service, of which the court suspended 20 hours yesterday. “This time it is just community service, but you must understand that you absolutely cannot do this. Prison guard or not, next time I’ll send you to Pointe Blanche,” Judge Dirk Gruijters told the defendant. Martina will…
GREAT BAY –Supermarket Le Grand Marché has to keep paying an employee it fired on the spot on July 11 her salary until the labor relationship has legally ended. The employee, D.H., worked as a produce handler for the store since 2007 and told the court that she and other workers have had to endure sexual intimidation and harassment by a supervisor in this department for the past five years. On July 11, the 37-year-old employee attempted to help a colleague who had been bullied by the supervisor. The supervisor then turned on her, because she was not doing her…
WILLEMSTAD – The Prosecutor’s Office received a report of a possible threat with a firearm by the Director of the Curaçao Intelligence Service (VDC) Michael Römer. Given the seriousness of the allegation and the position of the person concerned, the Attorney General asked the National Detective Agency on October 11 to proceed with a factual investigation. The purpose of this investigation is to find out what actually happened and to determine if there is a suspicion of a criminal offense. The prosecutor’s office emphasizes that there is no question at this time of a criminal investigation. No one is considered a…
BREAKING NEWS — HOUSE ON FIRE — News just reached our TODAY ONLINE NEWSPAPER desk that a fire broke out in the shanty neighborhood in the Cay Hill area in the vicinity behind the well-known Cake House Road. It is said that huge smoke can be seen billowing from the fire source. However, a fire official says the area of the source of the fire is not easily accessible for the fire trucks. Photo by Milton Pieters Photo caption: Photo taken from screenshot of videoclip. Video provided by Milton Pieters Above is the videoclip uploaded to us from our photo…
The call by attorney Geert Hatzmann for the establishment of a victim’s fund is a just one and one may well wonder why this call to action has to come from an attorney while successive governments and all Members of Parliament have been quiet on this issue for the past six years. The money to support victims is there. The minister of justice has a crime fund at his disposal that is funded with assets seized from criminals. While we do not know how much money there is in this fund at the moment, as far as we know the…
BREAKING NEWS – Ambulance captured on camera after fire damage on its way to an emergency call in Ebenezer this morning. Judging from the photo, the ambulance has incurred extensive fire and smoke damage as a result of an apparent engine fire and can be considered a total loss. A neighbor confirmed that this took place in the street next to the Academy’s P.S.V.E. school in Ebenezer. In an invited statement from the head of the Ambulance Department, Mr. Cylred Richardson stated that they are presently busy making a report on the fire incident with their ambulance. Richardson told our…
PHILIPSBURG – You may agree that GREE is a well-known brand name in St. Maarten when it comes to air conditioning units. However, what you may not know is that GREE HOME now has a new line of household appliances that are being marketed under the brand name MIDEA. GREE has a new store in Philipsburg that opened in February this year and is doing business under the name GREE HOME. The retail store not only carries the complete line of GREE AC products, accessories and supplies, but also the new line of MIDEA house appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, washing machines,…
BELIZE (CMC ) — Belize tourism officials say that for the past 15 consecutive months the industry has been experiencing “record breaking increases” in overnight arrivals monthly. The Belize Tourism Board (BTB) said that the sector had been recording double-digit increases of as much as 33 per cent growth. “We are now nine months through 2016 and the tourism arrival figures continue to show this upward trend, closing off this third quarter with an incredible 26.9 per cent increase for the month September 2016 over September 2015. “Overall, the first nine months of 2016 recorded a total of 293,622 overnight…
