A legal review of the issues surrounding Prescriptive Rights by Attorney at Law Mr. Reynold Groeneveldt brought to you by StMaartenNews.com. PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHTS I. Introduction: By means of the procedure of Prescriptive Rights one can obtain ownership of a portion of immovable (real estate) property and or movable property. One can acquire property by inheritance, donation or through a special legal title such as a transfer on account of a sale and purchase or by acquiring a title to the land by means of prescriptive rights. The articles of law regulating Prescriptive Rights are to be found in Book 3…
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PHILIPSBURG — Serial killer Kathron Fortune won’t see the outside of a prison for a very long time (and most likely never), after the Common Court of Justice sentence the 45-year old on appeal to a life sentence for killing Luis Sarante Diaz and Edwin Rosario Contreras in a hotel room at the Simpson Bay Resort on December 5, 2016. The Court in First Instance initially sentence Fortune to life imprisonment in a ruling on June 5, 2019. The defendant appealed the verdict. The appeals court notes in its verdict that Fortune has shown no regrets for his actions and…
PHILIPSBURG — The national ordinance that regulates the ceiling for salaries in the (semi-)public sector is not in line with the decision of the Kingdom Council of Ministers of September 24 of last year. On February 25 the Council instructed St. Maarten to amend the text of the legislation before May 1 and to send the amended ordinance for advice to the Council of Advice. This appears from a letter about the provision of liquidity support State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen (Kingdom Relations) sent to the Dutch parliament. The Kingdom Council of Ministers made standardizing top salaries in the (semi-)public…
THE HAGUE — While the three BES-islands (Statia, Saba and Bonaire) receive millions from the Dutch government, the autonomous countries St. Maarten. Aruba and Curacao have to make do with observations from State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen (Kingdom Relations) about their well-known problems and about their responsibilities based on their autonomous status. This appears from a letter Van Huffelen sent to the Dutch parliament after her recent visit to the Caribbean. In St. Maarten (and in Curacao and Aruba) Van Huffelen encountered “a combination of resilience, opportunities and serious concerns about daily life.” She notes in her letter that a…
THE HAGUE — State secretary Alexandra van Huffelen (Kingdom Relations) makes €35 million available for the preservation and restoration of nature on the BES-islands. This comes on top of the structural annual provision of €5 million for infrastructural projects, another €2 million (in 2022) for measures to strengthen the local governments and a structural contribution of €30 million (to achieve common objectives). A total of €72 million ($78.5 million). This appears from a letter Van Huffelen sent to the Dutch parliament after her recent visit to the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom. The 16-page letter deals with Caribbean Netherlands (Saba,…
PHILIPSBURG — On October 10, the second 6-year term of Governor Eugene B. (the B stands for Bernard) Holiday comes to an end. During the past twelve years the Governor has functioned as the unflappable representative of the crown, the guardian of the Constitution and a supporter of youth sports development, notably through the Governor’s table tennis cup. On October 10, St. Maarten will have a new governor. Who that will be is anybody’s guess. The names of several candidates are already circulating. Among them is attorney Jason Rogers, the former chairman of the Central Voting Bureau. Stepping into the…
We’ve all heard of Stockholm Syndrome. If you have seen the Netflix series Money Heist, you know that hostages fall in love with their captors. St. Maarten seems to have its own form of Stockholm Syndrome. I call it Robin Hood syndrome. Let me explain. St. Maarten will cost the Netherlands billions. Of course, the Netherlands has come up with a new way to justify the costs of those many billions in Sint Maarten in the coming years by setting up the COHO, the Caribbean Body for Reforms and Development. In the meantime, the Netherlands will also saddle the coming…
PHILIPSBURG — The General Audit Chamber asked the government in December 2020 – by now more than fourteen months ago – for the appointment of a third board member but in spite of repeated reminders in the course of 2021, the post still remains vacant. Currently, Alphons Gumbs is the chairman and Mandy Daal-Offringa is a board member. The term of deputy board member Sheryl Peterson expired on June 25, 2021. All this appears from the 2021 annual report of the Audit Chamber. As usual, the institution did an excellent job by delivering this report to the Governor and the…
PHILIPSBURG — The government can no longer sell immovable assets exclusively to one party without making the intention to do so public beforehand. The office of the Dutch Country Attorney Pels Rijcken arrives at this conclusion in a factsheet it produced at the request of the Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations, Hanke Bruins Slot after studying the arrest of the Supreme Court in the Didam-case. StMaartenNews.com reported about this arrest in November of last year (see: Supreme Court ruling affects long lease-rules in St. Maarten). Pels Rijcken agrees in its factsheet with an observation former Justice Minister Roland…
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