Have taxes been paid?
Reports coming out of Curacao indicate that well-known people on St. Maarten allegedly received millions in payments over a number of years from companies linked to ENNIA Insurances. These payments supposedly were made using primarily insurance premium monies paid by premium holders at these ENNIA related companies. The reports indicate that these More...
Mullet Bay once again takes center stage
No one on St. Maarten, living and working on the island in the 70s and 80s, was not affected by Mullet Bay in one form or another. Every family had at least one or more relatives that worked at Mullet Bay. Many More...
Challenges facing the new CBCS President
by Emsley D. Tromp I am writing this note risking stepping on toes. However, the only way to avoid stepping on toes is to stand still. Standing still will come at greater cost to the reputation and the credibility More...
Central Bank spends millions on effort to rescue ENNIA
PHILIPSBURG/WILLEMSTAD – The court in Curacao has increased the advance payment to the Central Bank for expenditures related to the restructuring of insurance company Ennia to 15 million guilders, the Antilliaans More...
Central Bank counters complaints by Ennia’s supervisory board
PHILIPSBURG – The Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten (CBCS) is not happy with a letter Faroe Metry, president of the supervisory board of insurance company Ennia’s operating units, wrote. The Central Bank More...
Acting President of CBCS attends introductory meeting with Mr. Ansary
Willemstad/Philipsburg – At the request of the Minister of Finance of Sint Maarten Perry Geerlings, the Acting President of the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS), Bob Traa attended an introductory More...
Getting Mullet Bay out of its funk
By Hilbert Haar In different words, MP Wescot-Williams criticized the proposal to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into Mullet Bay the same way civil law attorney Wim van Sambeek did in an article stmaartennews.com More...
Timeshare owners at the Towers of Mullet Bay revolt
PHILIPSBURG – More than two hundred timeshare owners at The Towers at Mullet Bay have appealed to Member of Parliament Rolando Brison to investigate the “misappropriation of the property of timeshare owners More...
Minister of VROMI Chris Wever tackling beach cleaning one at a time
PHILIPSBURG — Minister of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Development and Infrastructure (VROMI), the Honorable Christopher Wever says, “there is no time to joke about the environment especially More...
Time for appropriate action
By Hilbert Haar Giving back Mullet Bay to the people – the lofty objective behind MP Rolando Brison’s proposal for a parliamentary inquiry into the state of affairs with the location of the former Mullet Bay More...
