International Women’s Day reflections
by President of Parliament, Sarah Wescot-Williams International Women’s Day, March 8th, is a day to reflect on the achievements of women all around the world as well as ponder on the goals and objectives yet to be achieved that would bring us closer to gender parity on all levels and in all spheres. The IWD 2018 theme is Press for Progress, an urgent More...
Topper’s Rhum wins USA Todays’ 10Best Rum Distillery Award
ST. MAARTEN’S VERY OWN TOPPER’S RHUM DISTILLERY WINS USA TODAY’S 10BEST RUM DISTILLERY AWARD World’s Best Tasting Rhum Handmade in St. Maarten PHILIPSBURG, SINT MAARTEN – FEBRUARY 9, More...
NYT mentions Sint Maarten in its 52 Places to Visit in 2018
POND ISLAND – The New York Times (NYT) Travel section featured “52 Places to Go in 2018” as part of a starter kit for escaping into the world, and the Caribbean came in as number four under the banner “Tourism More...
JetBlue celebrates 10 years of service to St. Maarten
ST. MAARTEN – JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) marked the 10th anniversary of service to St. Maarten with local festivities that included its customers, crewmembers and business partners at Princess Juliana International More...
Venezuela unilaterally closes border with the ABC islands for 72 hours
ORANJESTAD – Venezuela unilaterally stopped all air and sea traffic with the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao) for 72 hours, CaribischNetwerk reported on its website on Saturday. On Aruba this measure More...
IOI expresses sympathy to the governments and people of the Caribbean, and pledges support to the regional Ombudsman institutions
Philipsburg; In separate letters directed to the Prime Minister of Sint Maarten, Mr. William Marlin and the President of Parliament, Mrs. Sarah Wescot-Williams, the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) expressed More...
SXM Airport re-opens on October 10, 2017
GREAT BAY — Minister of Tourism & Economic Affairs Mellissa Arrindell-Doncher on Wednesday announced that Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA/SXM Airport) will open to accept all commercial flights More...
Bakker Recycling subject of money laundering probe
GREAT BAY – The nerves are raw at Bakker Recycling on Pond Island after the police raided the place yesterday morning at the request of Dutch judicial authorities as part of a large-scale money laundering investigation. More...
Cruise line heavily fined for environmental violation
GREAT BAY – Cruise Company Princess has to pay the American government $40 million for environmental violations. In 2013, investigators discovered a ‘magical pipe’ at one of the company’s cruise vessels; More...
Zika no longer international public health emergency
GREAT BAY – Following a meeting of its emergency committee on Zika, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said that the infectious disease and its associated consequences no longer present a public More...
