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A serious Plan B
By Hilbert Haar The St. Maarten Christian Party was the first to present its political manifesto on Thursday and the document contains some interesting points. I’m going to focus on one hot potato: the salaries More...
Christian Party wants cut in politicians’ salaries
PHILIPSBURG – The St. Maarten Christian Party (SMCP) wants to reduce the salaries of members of Parliament by 15 percent – therefore, from $11,539 a month to $9,808. If a motion in Parliament to this extent More...
Missing manifestos
By Hilbert Haar With around forty days left until February 26, six political parties are gearing up for the elections nobody wanted on February 26. We know who they are: the United Democrats (UD – Theo Heyliger More...
SMCP and PPA leaders on Endorsement Day
Pond Island – On Monday, January 8th, Endorsement Day, four parties were required to garner 142 signatures in order to have their political party registered for the upcoming February 26th elections. The final More...
Ninety three candidates for February elections
PHILIPSBURG – It is hard to say whose support was more impressive – that of the newly formed United Democrats (UD) or that of the National Alliance (NA) – during Nomination Day for the February 26 elections More...
A new political powerhouse
By Hilbert Haar The February 26 elections will see the rise of a new political powerhouse if the numbers stmaartennews.com analyzed are any indication. The merger of Theo Heyliger’s United People’s party with More...
Our choice for Person of the Year 2017
Our nominations for Person of the Year certainly garnered a lot of responses. Our choices were based on who made headline news in 2017. As a media outlet, our hint should have given our readers an idea as to what More...
SMCP Candidate, Shenella Browne, opts out due to health reasons
Philipsburg — Due to health reasons, SMCP Candidate, Shenella Brown, will not be able to contest the upcoming parliamentary election on February 26, 2018. Nevertheless, Shenella has still managed to remain More...
Sint Maarten Deserves a Stable Coalition Government
After the new interim UP/DP/Brownbill government is sworn in, Sint Maarten would have had seven coalition governments in seven years. This is an average of one government per year. If we also count the number of More...
The University of St. Martin to remain open
PHILIPSBURG – On Monday, December 18th, 2017 representatives of the University of St. Martin and the Ministry of Education finally arrived at an agreement and signed the MOU securing the continuity of education More...
