The silent majority
The gap between politics and “the people’ has been a subject for debate in many countries. This weekend we witnessed the size of this gap on the French side of the island where citizens had the opportunity to vote in the territorial elections. With a turnout of 42.4 percent politics sustained a severe black eye, because almost six out of ten eligible More...
Flight connections
As flight connections between the islands of the former Netherlands Antilles become more cumbersome, many are scratching their heads about the next move. With Insel Air in bankruptcy protection chances are that More...
Financial management
That the country’s financial management needs improvement is old news. But that the books are altered after the fact is something new. Apparently that happened in 2015 if we go by the letter from the Cft to the More...
Apology
Dear Editor, The past week has given us many issues to reflect on or critically dissect to determine where we stand in the greater plan of it all. We have seen with quite some interest the letters back and forth More...
MP Brownbill released
GREAT BAY – United St. Maarten Party MP Chanel Brownbill was released from police custody on Saturday but he remains a suspect in the Emerald-investigation into tax fraud, forgery and money laundering. Four other More...
Dramatic low turnout for first round of territorial elections
MARIGOT – The enthusiasm for the territorial elections on the French side has never been impressive. In 2012, just 52.1 percent of the 17,892 voters went to the polls and yesterday the numbers looked even worse More...
A hungry man
Poverty, bad education and youth unemployment; those ingredients feed the breeding ground for drugs and gang related gun violence in Curacao. This observation, made by NOS-correspondent Dick Drayer after the shooting More...
Badly understood
The United St. Maarten party stands by its arrested MP Chanel Brownbill, the board says in a press statement. That is on a certain level commendable – you don’t drop your friends when they get into trouble. But More...
USp-board stands by its arrested MP Brownbill
GREAT BAY – The board of the United St. Maarten (US) party on Thursday said it stands by and supports its party member and Member of Parliament Chanel Brownbill (see photo) in the current ongoing investigation. More...
Minister Lee hammers on compliance
GREAT BAY – Minister Emil Lee (Labor) made clear once more yesterday that the government is serious about improving compliance in the business sector. Last week, the minister accompanied an inter-ministerial More...
