Businesses in Philipsburg struggle to survive
GREAT BAY — After a slow start of the tourist high season, several stores and restaurants in Philipsburg have trouble paying this month’s rent. Earlier this year Port St. Maarten and the tourism authorities announced that St. Maarten is seeing ‘a cruise boom’ and that the island ‘is leading a Caribbean tourism comeback’. But businesses More...
Hustled and harassed in Philipsburg
GREAT BAY — To visit Philipsburg today is to see how the declining benefits of cruise tourism and lack of government support have turned the city into a hustlers’ arena. Hundreds of street advertisers and More...
Cost-U-Less Grand Opening Saturday September 1st
CUL-DE-SAC — Cost-U-Less, the warehouse superstore, officially reopens on Saturday, September 1; nearly a year after being destroyed by Hurricane Irma and then plundered in the looting that following. Photo More...
Minister De Weever welcomes Koop Avond Thursdays. Calls on consumers and visitors to patronize businesses & stalls
POND ISLAND — Sint Maarten — Koop Avond will kick off on Thursday, June 21, and will continue for a six-week period until July 26. This is an initiative of entrepreneur Bertaux ‘Mr. Rude’ More...
Review LuminAID Packlite Max, a Solar Powered Lantern and Phone Charger in one
ST. JOHN’S ESTATE – The Wizards, specializing in computer repairs and onsite services, is now the official reseller for an environmentally-friendly product that has a very unusual feature: A solar powered LED More...
A haven for the globetrotting gourmet
By Chris Morvan You wouldn’t believe how excited I was to find a dripping, stinking piece of Brie in a supermarket chiller last week. But then you probably haven’t spent the last four years in countries where More...
Gamma’s RXPro software system adopted by St. Maarten’s Pharmacies
Philipsburg — In 2016, local software developer Gamma IT Solutions developed RXPro, a complete AIS system for the distribution of prescription and non-prescription medicines with all necessary functions and More...
Carrefour Market offers 50 percent more products
PHILIPSBURG – One week after Hurricane Irma struck St. Maarten on September 6 of last year, the transformation of the Le Grand Marché supermarket on Bush Road into a sparkling new Carrefour Market began. It took More...
Kim Sha Beach designated as market, activity area for cruise
~ Cruise lines toured area ~ PHILIPSBURG — Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs Mellissa Arrindell-Doncher, in consultation with Port St. Maarten and several cruise lines, has approved the temporary More...
City Furniture opens at new location
Cul-de-Sac — City Furniture has now open its doors at a new location on the L.B. Scot Road across from Cake House Supermarket in Cul-de-Sac. The new location boast a 4500 square foot showroom and convenient More...
