Tax observations and considerations after natural disasters
It is with great admiration for the people of Sint Maarten, and especially the business community of Sint Maarten, that we at Meijburg & Co Caribbean are monitoring the rapid rebound of the Friendly Island. In the following we would like to contribute to the rebuilding of Sint Maarten by providing some valuable considerations regarding tax implications More...
Too good to be true
GREAT BAY – In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma at times stories and announcements came out that seem too good to be true. An example is the announcement by the Windward Islands Bank that clients with a loan in More...
The reason why certain roofs survived hurricane Irma
PHILIPSBURG — Today photo journalist took a series of photographs of buildings whose roofs have withstood the category 6 storm force winds of Hurricane Irma without much of a scratch. You can view these photographs More...
Diary of a hurricane
By Hilbert Haar MONT VERNON – On Wednesday, September 20, at 12.15 p.m. the power came back at our condo in Mont Vernon, just fifteen days after Hurricane Irma devastated the island. I still have no internet and More...
Surviving Irma
by Julie Alcin When a natural disaster occurs, there are two ways one can react: the right or the wrong way. Although there are people who choose to react by breaking into places and raiding everything as if there More...
St. Maarten: what about the children?
PHILIPSBURG –Eveline Henriquez is struggeling with a huge moral dilemma: should she let her children be evacuated or not? “The oldest is old enough to let him leave to go to family in The Netherlands.” More...
Formalities
There are several ways to make a country great and some ways to make sure that this never happens. In that last category fall formalities. This thought crossed our mind when we heard Justice Minister Boasman said More...
A big no-no
The term ‘culture’ is often uses as an explanation for why things are happening in a certain way. It is a weak excuse of course; an attempt to talk something right that is, in fact, totally wrong. Such is the More...
Captain Dino’s plight
The plight of Captain Dino has brought an issue to light that deserves the attention of our decision makers. One of the key questions in this affair, apart from the attempts to get a permit for the chicken wing More...
Talk of the town
The Maximus-trial is the talk of the town in Willemstad. NOS correspondent Dick Drayer shed his light on the case in his blog De Achterkant van Curacao. These are his observations. “Almost four years after the More...
