Formateur Heyliger: “This was my last election”
By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – Formateur MP Theo Heyliger will not run in the next parliamentary elections. In a reaction to a request for an update about the formation of the new government, Heyliger informed stmaartennews.com: “Well, one thing Hilbert, this is my last election.” ... Some articles are restricted exclusively for our registered More...
Only one of the four commercial developers of Indigo Bay is bankrupt, other projects still moving forward
INDIGO BAY – On Monday, March 12th, a bankruptcy notice was published in The Daily Herald announcing that by decision of March 6th, 2018, the Court in First Instance of St. Maarten declared Indigo Bay Development More...
Nagico’s Imran McSood: “85 percent of hurricane insurance claims settled by the end of this month”
By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – Nagico-director Dwayne Elgin already announced it during a meeting of parliament about insurance issues after Hurricane Irma, and Nagico’s chairman Imran Amjad McSood confirmed More...
“Waste-to-energy won’t bring down electricity tariffs”
PHILIPSBURG – The electricity tariffs for consumers will not go down once a waste-to-energy facility begins to produce power from waste. That says Roy Marlin the former chairman and currently board member of More...
Dupersoy strikes back: “Cee Marlin bullies my mother”
PHILIPSBURG – Kendall Dupersoy contests Cee Marlin’s claims to land in the Keys (See: Cee Marlin fights illegal occupants of his family’s land, first published on February 1, 2018). “Out of the blue comes More...
UPDATED: Cee Marlin fights illegal occupants of his family’s land
UPDATED VERSION: In an earlier version the article stated that Leroy la Paix lives in a house on the Marlin property for which he does not pay a penny. This is incorrect. La Paix’s mother bought the house back More...
Lee Halley says no to eviction
SIMPSON BAY — As the deadline of the court-ordered eviction for Lee’s Roadside Grill & Deep Sea Fishing was yesterday, Thursday, February 1st, StMaartenNews.com visited the establishment and interviewed More...
Louie Laveist calls on interim government to take action to help the mentally ill
COLE BAY – In a breaking news report this morning, 721news reports that the Traffic Department is busy investigating a hit and run that occurred this morning at approximately 5am on Union Road in Cole Bay whereby More...
Haviser’s Orange Movement wants constitutional referendum
By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – Dr. Jay Haviser is on a mission. With the establishment of the Orange Movement he wants to convince the Parliament in St. Maarten to hold a referendum about the country’s constitutional More...
Low-income areas face most difficulty to rebuild after Irma
PHILIPSBURG – “I give clothes and food to the elderly man who lives here”, community police officer Arcella Leonard gestures towards a torn-down home. Within the demolished structure one can see a small room, More...
