Quartermaster
Dear Editor, The matter of meeting (or not) with the quartermaster recently gained some traction again. The Chairlady of Parliament in responding to the question whether she met with the Quartermaster during his visit to St. Maarten in February, explained: Yes, an invitation to meet was extended to me via the Representative of the Dutch Government in More...
Trickling of transparency
Dear Editor, When a government carefully and consciously decides to withhold information from the people or selectively inform them of what and how much they should know democracy suffers. It is also extremely dangerous More...
Short term contracts
Dear Editor, It is important to give the public a refresher as to why the process to amend book 7A of the civil code is underway. The intention to amend Book 7A of civil code is to protect the employees or workers. More...
Daggering
Dear Editor, The St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) is not a supporter of what it terms “overly suggestive” chants that’s disguising as music recently and will ask the authorities to crack More...
Whirlwind
Dear Editor, A lot of indignation reigned during the discussions on the appointment of a quartermaster by the Dutch government and rightfully so. The Dutch Minister (Plasterk) has however remained undeterred More...
Lee’s Roadside Grill
Dear Editor, Lee Halley, as a young man, had a vision, a dream to someday have his own fishing charter business on the same land and water where his father, brothers and many Simpson Bay fishermen kept their fishing More...
Open letter to Theo Heyliger
Dear Theo, There is always a reason for something. Nothing happens “just fo so” as we like to say. It is amazing to me that you are still trying to peddle your sob stories to the public as if we are More...
Better prepared
Dear Editor, I must commend our parliamentarians for raising the budget debate in the Central Committee a notch higher this year. Compared to the debate on the 2016 budget, parliamentarians were better prepared More...
Tension at TelEm
Dear Editor, The SMCU wants to point out that TelEm is still without a CEO after the parliament election of September 26. The prime minister mentioned right before the election that three new members would be More...
