The beach, pond and dump speak at LU’s St. Maarten Day Assembly
PHILIPSBURG — Learning Unlimited Preparatory School (LU) on Friday held its St. Maarten Day Assembly under the theme “Clean Up St. Maarten” and featured as special guests a beach, the Great Salt Pond and the Philipsburg Landfill more popularly known as the dump. While a majority of the program featured performances LU’s students, three More...
Wever responds swiftly, solves cleaning issue in Betty’s Estate
PHILIPSBURG — One day after learning that the Company contracted to clean the Camelia Road in Betty’s Estate had for unknown reason(s) not done so, Minister of VROMI Chris Wever dispatched an alternate More...
AUC students team up with Tzu Chi and residents to clean gutter
Four doctors in training from American Univerity of the Caribbean (AUC) School of Medicine teamed up with the St. Maarten Tzu Chi Foundation and Pond Island residents last Saturday, October 19, to transform a debris-filled More...
Sint Maarten signed the OCTA Oceans Declaration and Roadmap
PHILIPSBURG — The Government of Sint Maarten signed the OCTA Oceans Declaration and Roadmap in Brussels last week. This declaration highlights common marine priorities amongst OCT’s, encourages blue economies More...
Nature Foundation’s Junior Rangers Prepared for Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance’s Youth Environmental Exchange
PHILIPSBURG — Four selected Nature Foundation junior rangers will represent St Maarten and our environmental issues during the DCNA’s youth environmental exchange to Bonaire on Friday the 25th of October, More...
Kingdom Report Sounds Alarm on Biodiversity Conservation in the Dutch Caribbean
The Kingdom of the Netherlands highlights that of the twenty targets which were set for 2020 only four are on the track of being achieved on time. These results stress the immediate need for action by conservation More...
NAGICO distributes over 2,500 free reusable shopping bags island-wide
GREAT BAY– NAGICO Insurances has decided to help create awareness about being environmentally friendly by providing an opportunity for persons to reduce their usage of single-use plastic bags on our island. More...
Not going solar: how St. Maarten ignored its own energy policy
PHILIPSBURG – On April 24, 2014, the Council of Ministers approved a rather unique document: the National Energy Policy for Country Sint Maarten. The document has an ambitious subtitle: Towards a sustainable development. More...
Climate change: nobody moves
By Hilbert Haar Australia: 400,000.Berlin: 100,000. London: 100,000. Hamburg: 50,000. All of Germany: 1.4 million. St.Maarten: zero. These are just a few numbers highlighting the millions of people across the world More...
St. Maarten appeals dump-ruling
PHILIPSBURG – St. Maarten has appealed the court ruling that orders the government to complete the Fire Suppression Plan for the dump by May 1, 2020. On July 26, the court ruled that the country has to pay a More...
