Sarah: “Egoistic and self serving fight over the backs of the people of St. Maarten”
PRESS RELEASE BY THE LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF ST. MAARTEN NOVEMBER 16, 2017 The signing of the border control agreement reveals an egoistic and self serving fight over the backs of the people of St. Maarten. All is well, that ends well, one could quickly say, following the news that the government of St. Maarten finally signed the agreement More...
HOPE party: “Jacinto was a dedicated man”
PHILIPSBURG — “The news came suddenly and took us all by surprise.” HOPE party leader Mercedes ‘Elektra’ van der Waals-Wyatt stated about when she heard the sad news that party member More...
Gracita: “Rotterdam showed overwhelming support for Sint Maarten and its people in the aftermath of hurricane Irma”.
PHILIPSBURG — Gracita states: “just recently back home after attending an intense work-shop of the ‘Living University’, this time in Rotterdam, Holland, I am grateful for the overwhelming support extended More...
Unpaid Advice to political parties
Philipsburg — We found the following unpaid advice to political parties on Facebook. Good advice that we felt compelled to share with our readership as Postulation Day approaches on Monday, November 13th, More...
The Governor is bound to uphold the Constitution
Dear Editor, On November 3rd 2017, His Excellency Governor Eugene Holiday signed the national decree declaring that early elections would take place on January 8th, 2018. This was a very rash decision, seeing that More...
Minister of VROMI presses on with flagpole project
Dear editor, A few months before Irma, I got a request from the VROMI Minister on his official VROMI Government letterhead (with what appears to be a Black Power fist as part of that official letterhead??), requesting More...
Gracita: “A Sint Maarten ‘Marshall Plan’ is needed now”
PHILIPSBURG — Gracita states: “in the aftermath of hurricane Irma, the statue of ‘One Tete Lokeh’ located at the round-about in Belair is symbolic of our present state of rebuilding efforts. Still More...
Sick and Tired
I’ve lived on this island my entire life. Sint Maarten is the only place I call home. From attending school, being a “good” Methodist, exploring different beaches, watching and admiring the hills, hearing More...
Are We Ready? – Part Two
In most IT textbooks new topics are often introduced with case studies. As a matter of fact, when I was introduced to Business Continuity Planning it was through a case study discussing the effects of Super Storm More...
Without Dutch assistance, next disasters loom
Major disasters and stressful situations tend to bring out the best and the worst in people and the organizations managed by them; public and private, and even volunteer. The indiscriminate nature of Hurricane More...
