Recycling bins placed in St. Peters
ST. PETERS — Wastefactory Sint Maarten, in collaboration with the annual SXM DOET project, installed two recycling bins in the community of St. Peters. The St. Peters Emergency Organization Group (SPEOG),via a press release, would like to extend words of thanks to Wastefactory Sint Maarten and Tes Verheij for the stationing of two recycling bins More...
No construction freeze for the Red Cross
PHILIPSBURG – Businesses and shops in Philipsburg are closed, schools in Front Street and Back Street are closed. The silence in the city is broken only by sporadic traffic and the crowing of roosters. Except More...
Sint Maarten Lions Club received “UNSUNG HEROES” Award
On Monday, November 11, 2019, the Sint Maarten Lions Club was one of the recipients to receive the UNSUNG HEROES award by the director of the St. Maarten in Retrospect Foundation (SIR). The occasion marked the More...
Rotary celebrates World Interact Week, commemorating the first club
PHILIPSBURG — Every year, in the week of 5th November, Rotary celebrates World Interact Week, to commemorate the founding of the first Interact club in 1962. Interact Clubs are Rotary’s youngest leaders, More...
Hurricane shelter project closes in January – and its residents have nowhere to go
PHILIPSBURG – The shelter former Minister Emil Lee established in Sucker Garden after Hurricane Irma is scheduled to close down by the end of January next year. There are still forty hurricane-victims in the More...
Dr. J. Foundation urges community to donate to the Hurricane Irma Reintegration Program
COLE BAY — After Hurricane Irma struck Sint Maarten on September 6th, 2017, people were left homeless – wondering where to go. Now, two years later, there remains about 40 people living in a shelter. More...
Ombudsman releases short film on Home Repair
PHILIPSBURG — On Friday, October 25 at 11:00 AM the Ombudsman released the short film to complement the report: ‘Home Repair. A revelation of a social crisis’. The turnout at the Bureau was successful. More...
Ombudsman presents community Outreach report on the progress of Home Repair to Parliament
PHILIPSBURG — In 2019, the Ombudsman Gwendolien Mossel and her team embarked on an initiative with the objective of reaching out to the general public, in particular, the most vulnerable in the society. Over More...
Minister of VROMI Chris Wever tackling beach cleaning one at a time
PHILIPSBURG — Minister of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Development and Infrastructure (VROMI), the Honorable Christopher Wever says, “there is no time to joke about the environment especially More...
Marie De Weever new Mortgage Custodian for the Kadaster
Photo Caption: Marie De Weever was sworn in as a Mortgage Custodian for the Kadaster on St. Maarten by his Excellency Governor Eugene Holiday on Tuesday morning. She has a wealth of experience about the inner workings More...
