GREAT BAY – Port St. Maarten Management and Supervisory Board representatives were informed about new trends in the cruise industry at Seatrade Cruise Med on Wednesday in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. Carnival Cruise Corporation will be adding four XL LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) powered cruise ships to its fleet. In the meantime, Carnival will add 10 new ships to its fleet by 2018, and an additional nine new ships will be added to its fleet between 2019 up to 2022. Port St. Maarten is represented at the conference by CEO Mark Mingo, Supervisory Board Member Jason Rogers, General…
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GREAT BAY – The White and Yellow Cross Care Foundation broke ground on Thursday September 22 to start the much anticipated construction of its new Elderly Care Homes. Plans for expansion started already in 2014, when a growing waiting list showed the urge for more capacity. Currently 21 seniors reside in the Sint Martin’s Home, which they share with 44 Nursing Home Clients. They will move to the new homes in late 2017. These homes will consist of 3 buildings, with 10 fully equipped studio’s each, catering to at least 30 clients. Each studio has a living room, bedroom and…
GREAT BAY – Telecom providers TelEm and UTS Eastern Caribbean are in talks that should lead to a merger whereby TelEm will hold 60 and UTS 40 percent of the shares, Prime Minister William Marlin said during yesterday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. With his announcement, Marlin addressed concerns expressed by the St. Maarten Communication Union SMCU about the pending sale of TelEm. “I stopped the process of the sale, I pulled up the handbrakes on that one,” Marlin said. “The decision to look for a strategic partner was taken years ago and government needed to revisit that decision.” With…
Austrian company files injunction against outcome bidding process GREAT BAY – When Minister Emil Lee (Public Health) met with the board of social and health insurance agency SZV in December of last year to discuss the hospital project he found that the chairman of the board, Dr. Michel Petit, “was very much protecting the non-bid offer from Vamed.” “He said we should bring in a couple of consultants to verify the price,” Lee said yesterday at the Council of Ministers press briefing. “I was adamant that the right way to go was with an open and transparent bidding process.” Nevertheless,…
That is the suggestion of the prosecution in the summons GREAT BAY – Prison Director Edward Rohan gave MP Silvio Matser in August 2014, when he was a candidate for the United People’s party, a list of eligible voters in the Pointe Blanche prison, it appeared during a pro forma hearing in the Court in First Instance yesterday. Of the 68 eligible voters, 48 voted for the UP in 2014; the other votes went to the National Alliance (12), the US party and the DP (3 each) and one to Jacinto Mocks’ Social Reform Party. The prosecution accuses Matser, who…
Left to right is Sellier, Chin and Govia while they were getting acquainted with the course in Bellevue yesterday afternoon – Photo by Milton Pieters. GREAT BAY- When the 2nd annual Caribbean Mountain Bike Championships peddles off on Sunday in Bellevue, the Friendly Island will have a total of six participants among the field of 41 riders from eight countries. Peter Sellier, the defending Caribbean champion along with his two male team mates Ryan Chin and Christopher Govia from Trinidad & Tobago were among the first to arrive on the island early yesterday. The female rider on the team Candace…
Meeting of the Our Land Matters movement MARIGOT – Last Friday the Our Land Matters movement met with several district leaders, heads of associations and other families to discuss the current status of affairs. The discussion highlighted not only the history of the ongoing debacle with the Beauperthuy properties but also that the manner in which this situation is being handled is considered to be against human rights and unfounded. It also brought about discussion on the lack of concern from the side of the local government. Also highlighted during the discussion was the need to unite and stand as…
Says Louis Mussington. MARIGOT—The French prison system is in dire need of repair and as a result the French Republic is looking at the amount of finances needed to have the Penitentiary in Basseterre and Point-e-Pete fixed permanently, said Louis Mussington in a reaction to the recent death of Mathieu Carty, the teenager who was killed in Basseterre prison after he was arrested for the rape and death of Wendy Montulet. Placing Carty in the prison population was incorrect according to Mussington but he believes that prisons in the Caribbean and in the entire Republic of France are seriously overcrowded.…
Things are shaping up at the new government administration building. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar GREAT BAY – Right on time before the elections, the Council of Ministers will move into the new government administration building on Pond Island tomorrow. The opening ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. Election stunt or not, with the move the building that was ready for occupation in 2008 will finally get its first occupants. The offices of the ministers and their staff are on the fourth floor. On the ground floor, the entrance hall has been neatly tiled and yesterday workers were still busy…
UP-leader Theo Heyliger upset about Masbangu-appeal Billboard of UP-leader Theo Heyliger on Walter Nisbeth Road, with billboards of Finance Minister and NA-candidate Richard Gibson in the background. Photo Today / Hilbert Haar GREAT BAY – The witch hunt and selective prosecution are continuing with yet another appeal filed by the Prosecutor’s Office in the so-called “Masbangu” case, leader of the United People’s party Theo Heyliger said in a press statement. “The Prosecutor’s Office did not succeed once. They tried again and did not succeed. I guess they believe the third time’s the charm in their trumped up attempt to discredit…
