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Government-owned banks under pressure
PHILIPSBURG/WILLEMSTAD — Following the recent bank run on the partly government-owned Girobank in Curaçao, some of the clients of the fully government-owned PSB bank also withdrew their deposits. Management More...
Publisher StMaartenNews.com enters politics; joins SMCP
~ “Terrance Rey is a qualified, experienced, committed and passionate candidate” ~ PHILIPSBURG — The words qualified, experienced, committed and passionate describing the number 12 candidate on More...
Cft budget advice: civil servants and politicians have to pony up
PHILIPSBURG – St. Maarten has to take more measures to create a budget surplus, the Board financial supervision (Cft) writes in its advice about the 2020 budget to Finance Minister Perry Geerlings. The financial More...
Motion Dutch Parliament targets St. Maarten’s law enforcement
PHILIPSBURG – A large majority of the Dutch Second Chamber (107 out of 150 possible votes) supported the motion Van Dam on Tuesday – a decision that is bound to create confusion if not outrage about what could More...
Razor-thin motivation
By Hilbert Haar The motion of CDA parliamentarian Chris van Dam that calls for Dutch involvement in law enforcement on St. Maarten comes across as a fine example of Dutch meddling in our island’s affairs. That More...
Self Above Country
By Hilbert Haar That St. Maarten is its own worst enemy has become clear once more with another series of ship-jumping. First MP Franklin Meyers declared himself independent from the United Democrats and now MPs More...
Political chaos is complete
PHILIPSBURG – The chaos is complete in St. Maarten’s political arena after two United Democrats MPs – Luc Mercelina and Chanel Brownbill – withdrew their support for the UD/St. Maarten Christian Party (SMCP) More...
MP Claude ‘Chacho’ Peterson requests meeting to be convened with State Secretary Knops
PHILIPSBURG — On Tuesday, September 17, 2019, SMCP Member of Parliament Claude ‘Chacho’ Peterson submitted a letter to Parliament requesting, through the Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin, that More...
Governor’s Address for the opening of the Parliamentary Year 2019-2020
THE GOVERNOR’S ADDRESS 2019 DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE PARLIAMENTARY YEAR 2019-2020 BY THE GOVERNOR OF SINT MAARTEN HIS EXCELLENCY DRS. EUGENE B. HOLIDAY Madame Chairlady, Members of Parliament, Today More...
Container cells arrive, budget-deficit for housing inmates in the Netherlands
PHILIPSBURG – The navy support vessel Hr. Ms. (His Majesty’s) Pelikaan delivered eleven of the 22 container-cells from Bonaire to St. Maarten last week. The containers will be placed in the yard of the Pointe More...
