No-violence prenuptial
With Carnival heating up the matter of culture becomes once more a topic for debate. What is it exactly? Not daggering in the streets, if we have to go by the St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation. It’s something else – like, people behaving properly. That may be true in an imaginary world, in the real world things go differently. That appeared More...
Who’s next?
That the president of the Central Bank failed the screening by the national security service VDSM is an eye opener. Even more of a wakeup call is that nobody ever thought about ordering such a screening, until Finance More...
Central Bank President Tromp fails screening
GREAT BAY – The suspended president of the Central Bank, Dr. Emsley Tromp (see photo) has failed a screening by the national security service VDSM, Finance Minister Richard Gibson said at yesterday’s Council More...
Dutch elections: Highest turnout in more than 20 years
THE HAGUE – The turnout for the March 15 parliamentary elections was 81.9 percent – the highest in more than twenty years. The Electoral Council announced this on Tuesday when it presented the official election More...
Tarnished triumph
Last week’s general election in the Netherlands was one of the most closely watched in years. But the fact that Geert Wilders’ radical right party failed to make major gains does not mean he has not had an impact. More...
Fluoride: a beneficial poison?
That the Collective Preventive Service recommends the use of toothpaste and mouth water containing fluoride may surprise some readers. After all, fluoride has been at the center of disputes in many countries. Its More...
After the liquidations
Twee days after the fourfold liquidation near Parera on the access road to Punda the police in Willemstad still has no idea whatsoever about what happened last Saturday night. NOS-correspondent Dick Drayer sums More...
Sweet little story
Sometimes a sweet little story like the presentation of the Welcome Baby Bag at the hospital brings home the realization that there are plenty of good-willing people in our community. Stories about violent crimes, More...
Welcome Baby Bag initiative launched at medical center
GREAT BAY – Little Kiandra was not aware of what was going on around her yesterday afternoon in the conference room of the St. Maarten Medical Center, but yet, with her mom Juana the 4-days-old baby girl was the More...
Team Gibbs wins first round
MARIGOT – With 49.2 percent of the vote, Team Daniel Gibbs booked a resounding victory in the first round if the territorial elections on Sunday. A distant second was Louis Mussington’s MJP (13.8 percent) followed More...
