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Common Court of Justice reports surplus in 2022

PHILIPSBURG — The Common Court of Justice closed 2022 with a positive balance of 1,330,000 guilders (around $743,000); this amount will be added to the court’s general reserves. During the past five years the court saved 8 million guilders (around $4.4 million) by giving back incidental solidarity contributions to the countries and by adjusting More...

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By The Publisher On Thursday, June 1st, 2023
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MP Peterson criticizes process for public tenders

PHILIPSBURG — Public tenders falling under the authority of the Ministry of Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (VROMI) have once again become a bone of contention. In 2022 the More...

By The Publisher On Friday, May 26th, 2023
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Seven local detainees transferred to the Netherlands

  PHILIPSBURG — The limited availability of cell capacity at the Pointe Blanche prison is costing the government a fortune. The Volkskrant reported in November 2019 that the 31 detainees that were at that More...

By The Publisher On Sunday, May 21st, 2023
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CIBC FirstCaribbean announces Realtor of the Year Award

PHILIPSBURG — CIBC FirstCaribbean introduced the Realtor of the Year Award during special client events it held recently in the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Barbados. The bank announced that a similar event More...

By The Publisher On Sunday, May 21st, 2023
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Law enforcement requires substantial investments

PHILIPSBURG — The Law enforcement Council made fifty recommendations in 2022 to improve the situation at the police force in St. Maarten. Eleven of them have so far been ignored, and five have been partially More...

By The Publisher On Thursday, May 18th, 2023
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Tax office has no grip on ex officio assessments

PHILIPSBURG — If you have ever wondered why the tax administration continues to publish dozens upon dozens of tax warrants in the National Gazette, you can find the answer in the latest audit report of the More...

By The Publisher On Saturday, May 13th, 2023
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Concerns about the future of Claude Wathey’s statue

PHILIPSBURG — The old Government Administration Building will finally be demolished by a company called Limitless Infrastructure at a cost of approximately 660,000 guilders ($368,715). A ceremony to “celebrate” More...

By The Publisher On Saturday, May 13th, 2023
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Retribution or Sinister Agenda

Dear Editor, Again and again, prosecutors operating in this territory are embarrassing our judicial system. They went on a house searching rampage, again, under the pretext of “fraud, forgery and taking bribery”, More...

By The Publisher On Saturday, May 13th, 2023
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Cft satisfied with intended budget amendments

PHILIPSBURG — The government expects a budget surplus of 4 million guilders ($2.2 million) in 2024, 9 million ($5 million) in 2025 and 15 million ($8.4 million) in 2026. This projection appears from a letter More...

By The Publisher On Saturday, April 29th, 2023
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Ministry of Justice takes on tedious and monumental task diligently

~ The amount of data being processed is equivalent to doing a census ~ PHILIPSBURG — Why does it take so long before the Ministry of Justice had completed all the necessary information about its staff members? More...