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Doing business in St. Maarten: bottlenecks and solutions (part 3)
3. Paying taxes PHILIPSBURG — Establishing a business in St. Maarten is an at times an expensive road littered with stumbling blocks. The Ministry of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations and the Ministry of More...
Discrimination to the fullest
Dear Sir/Madam, With regards to your Corporate Governance Supervisory Board Member Traineeship advertisement, I find that your requirements are highly discriminatory. You have excluded members of our territory More...
Paper trails and money trails
We don’t understand why the airport is asking employees to provide information about payments made to them while an internal audit – or even a forensic audit – should be able to provide them More...
Supervisory directors have serious responsibilities
PHILIPSBURG — The fraud that has recently come to light at the harbor as well as at the airport begs the question what the role of the supervisory boards has been in these matters. Or rather: what their role More...
Publisher Terrance Rey: “Greed knows no boundaries”
PHILIPSBURG — The essence of the problems with government-owned companies is “political meddling,” Terrance Rey, the publisher of StMaartenNews.com recently said on Wendell Moore’s radio program People’s More...
PFP demands explanations about “political games” with GEBE
PHILIPSBURG — Party for Progress Members of Parliament Melissa Gumbs and Raeyhon Peterson have expressed their concerns about developments at utilities company GEBE in a series of questions to prime Minister More...
Power struggle at GEBE turns ugly
PHILIPSBURG — Working at utilities company GEBE remains a minefield. That much is clear after the recent court case against Sharine Daniel and the even more recent dismissal of temporary manager Mauricio More...
Law Enforcement Council gets authority to control Crime Fund
PHILIPSBURG — The available capacity for the execution of measures from the country package in St. Maarten remains a continuous source of concern. The capacity in St. Maarten is even more limited than in More...
A flawed verdict highlighted
In September, GEBE, first alone and then together with the members of its supervisory board, filed lawsuits against the company’s shareholder Country St. Maarten based on tort. More specifically, because Country More...
GEBE court ruling is regretfully flawed, attorney says
PHILIPSBURG — “A remarkable verdict if not a miscarriage of justice,” attorney Jairo Bloem says about the ruling of the Court in First Instance against two members of GEBE’s supervisory board, Roberta More...
