Formateur Heyliger: “This was my last election”
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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.” LOGIN TO READ MORE... THIS IS A PREMIUM ARTICLE. YOU NEED AT LEAST More...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...