While the grass is growing, the horse is starving
Dear Editor, We are about over a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact of this disease on our island nation has been nothing short of disastrous. The impact has meant 2134 confirmed infected cases with 27 deaths. Thousands have been pushed into poverty. Equivalently, thousands of jobs have been lost. This can be clearly reflected in the claim More...
Pro Soualiga response to StMaartenNews.com review article
Dear Editor, Please find a reply to your article entitled “Pro Soualiga Twists old study to fit its agenda“ Firstly, Pro Soualiga does not have its own agenda. Pro Soualiga is merely stating what the More...
Unfair incarceration
Dear Editor, The practice of locking people up for questioning has got to stop. Taking innocent people out of their beds at all hours and locking them up is inhumane and should be unlawful. Everyone is presumed More...
WICSU-PSU union says “Communication is Key!”
The WICSU-PSU Union read with much dismay the press release “All draft function books to be submitted by December 23” which appeared in the Daily Herald on Wednesday December 16, 2020. The article informed More...
Pro Soualiga Foundation: “UN Security Council Labels Netherlands’ Actions Worse Than Hitler.”
In order to receive the third tranche of liquidity support, the Dutch government recently asked the Government of St. Maarten to distance itself from comments made by various Members of Parliament regarding More...
2020 Christmas holidays address from MP Buncamper
~ 2020 Christmas holidays address from MP Buncamper of the USP faction in Parliament ~ Fellow citizens of St. Maarten, as the Christmas holidays draw near, I am certain that many of you, like myself, may be in More...
Another Public Holiday, Really?
Dear Minister Panneflek, Do we REALLY need another public holiday for our businesses to stay closed or have to pay overtime if we chose to open anyhow? Why did the COM not just give THEIR employees the day off More...
Pro Soualiga Response To “Decolonization Was Completed In 1955”
Dear Editor, In February of 2018, the Kingdom of the Netherlands submitted a Written Statement to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) where they declared in paragraph 2.5 that “the right to self-determination More...
For the record…
Dear Editor, I just read a letter sent to His Excellency Governor Eugene B. Holiday by Renate Brison, Secretary of the Pro Soualiga Foundation that starts with: “Pro Soualiga, on behalf of the population of More...
How to preserve our monuments historical heritage
By Achken Roberto Richardson Supposing Government wants to preserve building monuments, then the Country should be the owners of these properties, a policy which I can understand and do support, given the culture, More...
