Minister Johnson spinned the Vidanova airport-funding story
PHILIPSBURG – Financing a US pre-clearance facility at the airport is not part of a refinancing proposal by Curacao-based pension fund Vidanova, as Minister Stuart Johnson (Tourism and Economic Affairs) claimed in an announcement published on September 6 in The Daily Herald. Johnson’s claim that the airport is “nearing full default towards its More...
Towers timeshare owners have MP Brison’s attention
PHILIPSBURG – Member of Parliament Rolando Brison has invited Leona Peterson Naude, the spokeswoman for the disgruntled timeshare owners at The Towers at Mullet Bay to testify to the parliamentary inquiry committee More...
A very bad idea
An Exposé by Hilbert Haar Hilbert Haar exposes for the second time the moves of the 'shadow government' on St. Maarten and their spies within the Leona Romeo-Marlin II cabinet. Hilbert Haar also exposes and debunks More...
Emergency measure for Banco del Orinoco N.V. imposed at the request of the CBCS – UPDATE
WILLEMSTAD, PHILIPSBURG — The Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS) was forced, in view of deficiencies at Banco del Orinoco N.V., to petition the Court of First Instance of Curaçao to adopt More...
NIPA and MIC-IT sign One-year Extension Agreement
CAY HILL — The National Institute for Professional Advancement (NIPA) has partnered with Trinidad-based MIC Institute of Technology (MIC-IT), initially under a one-year contract slated to end December 2019, More...
94 persons graduated NIPA’s Carpentry, Masonry, Property Maintenance, Plumbing and Electrical Installation Training Programs
CAY HILL — On Thursday, September 5, 2019, the campus of the National Institute for Professional Advancement, NIPA, was the site of the graduation of the second cohort of the St. Maarten Emergency Income More...
Johnson links MP Richardson to BTP
PHILIPSBURG – Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs Stuart Johnson admits in veiled terms in a letter to attorney Sjamira Roseburg that Member of Parliament Frans Richardson is in some way involved with the 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...
SHTA’s Reflections on Recovery Progress two years Post-Irma
PHILIPSBURG — As we pensively anticipate the anniversary of Hurricane Irma, after witnessing Dorian’s destruction of the Bahamas, we reflect on how little meaningful progress has been made not one but a More...
Prime Minister Romeo Marlin calls on country to observe a moment of silence on 906
PHILIPSBURG – In observance of the second anniversary of the passing of Hurricane Irma, Prime Minister the Honorable Leona Romeo Marlin addressed the nation. “To the people of Sint Maarten, our residents and More...
