Search Results for: Wycliffe Smith
Minister Smith Visits Sr. Regina School – Apologises for Error Made in Presentation to Parliament
Philipsburg, September 17, 2018 — Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, the Honourable Wycliffe Smith visited the Sister Regina Primary School on Monday to personally apologize to the Principal, More...
MP Smith takes parliament to task
PHILIPSBURG – “This budget will not win any stellar awards,” MP Wycliffe Smith (St. Maarten Christian Party) said on Monday during the first day of the 2018 budget debate. “It shows a deficit, it is not More...
MP Smith urges Parliament to be pro-active
PHILIPSBURG – MP Wycliffe Smith (SMCP) got almost instant satisfaction from his remark during Thursday’s Central Committee meeting about the 2018 budget that Parliament should be more involved in the country’s More...
Smith urges new coalition to present governing program
Wycliffe Smith, leader of the extra-parliamentary St. Maarten Christian Party. Photo contributed GREAT BAY – The September 26 votes were counted, recounted and validated by the Main Voting Bureau on Tuesday October More...
A Man of Integrity; A Man of His Word
Known to the people as Chacho, Claude Alfred Hans Peterson is the son of retired Police Affairs and Naturalization Department Head, Hans Peterson, and retired School Principal/Union Leader/Politician Aline Choisy. More...
Political Analysis: Article 59 Part II in the Context of Sint Maarten’s Political Climate
Dear Editor, The current Prime Minister’s Cabinet has promised to invoke Article 59 to dissolve Parliament, though the reason for this is unclear. This action would likely be a response to losing support More...
Cusha Cartoons book in production
Dear reader, Welcome to this page where I will be compiling the best of the satirical cartoons we have published over the years since 2016 when StMaartenNews.com was first launched. These cartoons will be bundled More...
Freedom of choice
By Hilbert Haar The Common Court of Justice has ordered Aruba and Curacao to allow marriages between partners of the same sex. That order had not gone into effect yet, because both countries could appeal the ruling More...
Will Parliament and Government allow Dutch takeover of the Prison?
Dear Editor, On Monday, June 22, 2020, at 7:00 am, Sint Maarten time, Chris van Dam, Member of the Dutch Second Chamber, will be presenting a motion to the Second Chamber in which he is requesting the Dutch Government More...
Current government lives up to agreements made by former government
Dear Editor, I was pleasantly surprised and extremely pleased to hear the Honorable Prime Minister declare during the Council of Ministers Press Briefing on June 17, 2020, that her Government is living up to the More...
