Windward Roads to complete sewage system in Dutch Quarter
PHILIPSBURG – Wndward Roads deal with the public prosecution in the Larimar corruption case is finally coming to fruition. The Larimar-trial examined the activities of several companies, among them Windward More...
Lack of refinancing-agreement could cost St. Maarten millions
PHILIPSBURG – If the government does not manage to reach an agreement about the refinancing of the corona-loans with the Netherlands before October 10, it could cost St. Maarten’s treasury an additional More...
Government has to pay Bearing Point one million for canceled IT-project
PHILIPSBURG -The government has to pay 1 million guilders ($558.659) in damages to Bearing Point Management Consultancy (BPMC), the Court in First Instance ruled on July 7. The amount is an advance payment on damages More...
Van Huffelen puts Ennia-pensioners at ease
PHILIPSBURG – The 30,000 Ennia-clients in St. Maarten and Curacao do not have to worry about their pensions. This appears from the statement State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen (Kingdom Relations) made More...
Former Minister Oduber is one of the suspects in the Flamingo-investigation
ORANJESTAD – The public prosecutor’s office in Aruba is going to prosecute former Minister Otmar Oduber for “fraudulent practices,” dossierkoninkrijksrelaties.nl reports. After he left the Aruban More...
Second MP sounds the alarm about situation at the airport
PHILIPSBURG – Independent MP Grisha Heyliger-Marten has expressed her concerns about “ongoing issues” at the airport in a letter to Minister Arthur Lambriex (Tourism, Economy, Transport and Telecommunication). More...
One SXM dissatisfied with king’s slavery-apology
PHILIPSBURG – The One SXM Association is not satisfied with the apologies King Willem-Alexander offered on July 1 during the commemoration of the end of slavery 160 years ago, in 1863. The association More...
Winair welcomes three new supervisory board members
PHILIPSBURG – Melinda Hoeve, Jimmy Challenger, and Jeroen Scheelbeek have been appointed as new members to the supervisory board of directors of Winair, the company announced in a press release. The other More...
No support for motion to give St. Maarten more time to repay liquidity loans
THE HAGUE – St. Maarten will not get more time to repay the loans for liquidity support it received from the Netherlands during the corona pandemic. A motion by Green Left MP Kauthar Bouchallikh to give the More...
Central Bank warns of economic and social catastrophe if Ennia-crisis is not resolved
PHILIPSBURG – “Not finalizing a resolution strategy for Ennia could trigger a run-off of international reserves and cause a deep economic and social crisis,” the Central Bank of Curacao and St Maarten More...