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No sense of urgency
By Hilbert Haar Membership of parliament is supposed to be a full time job and our fifteen parliamentarians are handsomely paid for it. Yet, according to a proposal submitted by MPs Rolando Brison, Christophe Emmanuel More...
MP Rolando Brison tables first Initiative Law on UTS Sale
~ Proposes funds go to Police Force, Pension and Affordable Housing ~ PHILIPSBURG — Member of Parliament Rolando Brison on Wednesday will table his initiative law authorizing the proper sale of UTS. The law More...
Are we prepared for retirement?
Yesterday we received an email with the headline “The coming retirement crisis will be UGLY”. According to the email, recent studies confirm that most Americans are not prepared for retirement. Depending More...
NAGICO Insurances takes over portfolio of Sagicor Life Inc. in St. Maarten
PHILIPSBURG — On Monday, April 8th, 2019, NAGICO Life Insurance N.V. and NAGICO Insurances issued a press statement wherein they announced that they had taken over the portfolio of Sagicor Life Inc. The press More...
WIFOL President calls on Government to be proactive
PHILIPSBURG — Government needs to be proactive instead of reactive to stem the high cost of services, goods and labor since the passage of the hurricanes of 2017. “We have seen the house rents, food commodities More...
Between a rock and a hard place, but worse
By Hilbert Haar The expression caught between a rock and a hard place does not begin to describe the situation St. Maarten finds itself in now that the Kingdom Council of Ministers has put conditions in place for More...
Kingdom imposes conditions for liquidity support
THE HAGUE — St. Maarten will only get liquidity support from the Netherlands in 2019 if it complies with several conditions the Kingdom Council of Ministers has put in place. “These conditions see – More...
Opposition criticizes credentials-procedure; walks out on Chairlady
~ no objections against the verbal declaration of approval of credentials of Jules James ~ PHILIPSBURG — Opposition members of Parliament made a song and dance about procedural matters in a meeting on Monday More...
Information about the sale of UTS to Liberty Latin America
WILLEMSTAD — A press release from the Ministry of Traffic, Transportation and Spatial Planning (VVRP) in Curacao on March 26, 2019, contained a letter from the Minister of VVRP, Zita Jeus-Leito, to Liberty More...
Opposition prevents substitute James from entering parliament
PHILIPSBURG — The opposition benches remained empty on Monday morning when parliament was supposed to examine the credentials of substitute MP Jules James. Due to a lack of quorum, the meeting could not take More...
