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St. Maarten needs massive financial support
Central Bank interim-President Jardim sounds the alarm: St. Maarten needs humongous financial support PHILIPSBURG – St. Maarten’s government needs between 86 and 104 million guilders ($48 to $58.1 million) More...
Plan for deposit guarantee regulation: too little, too late
PHILIPSBURG – The Central Bank of Curacao and Sint Maarten (CBCS) has presented the governments of both countries with a draft national ordinance aimed to establish a deposit guarantee regulation. Such a measure More...
Depositogarantieregeling komt voor velen te laat
PHILIPSBURG – De Centrale Bank van Curacao en Sint Maarten (CBCS) heeft de regeringen van beide landen een ontwerp verordening voorgelegd voor de vaststelling van een depositogarantieregeling. Deze maatregel More...
A thoughtful expose
By Hilbert Haar Running a country is not a profitable business. If the Netherlands, or St. Maarten or Curacao for that matter, had been private sector businesses they would have had to close their doors a long time More...
MP Franklin Meyers: “Laws put targets on the backs of our people”
PHILIPSBURG -- United Democrats MP Franklin Meyers made a number of remarkable statements during a broadcast if the Morning Show on Pearl 98.1 FM Radio on March 11 to the program’s host Elton Jones. Meyers suggested More...
Ipko positive about structural election observation
PHILIPSBURG – All four delegations taking part in the Inter-Parliamentary Kingdom Consultation (Ipko) reacted positively to a proposal by VVD parliamentarian André Bosman to establish structural election More...
SDM Leader Ortega has hard questions about Ennia, Mullet Bay and the Silence of Politicians in St. Maarten
SINT MAARTEN (MULLET BAY) – Benjamin Ortega, Leader of the St. Maarten Development Movement (SDM) has issued a press statement on Sunday regarding Ennia, and the measures taken by the Central Bank of Curacao More...
Tougher demand against MP Brownbill for tax fraud
PHILIPSBURG – The public prosecutor demanded a higher sentence against Member of Parliament Chanel Brownbill on Thursday than he did against other suspects in the Emerald-investigation: 18 instead of 15 months More...
Equal crime, equal punishment
By Hilbert Haar Everyone in Sint Maarten shall be treated equally in equivalent circumstances. Discrimination on grounds of religion, belief, political persuasion, race, colour of skin, sex, language, national or More...
Stricter screening …. in the Netherlands
By Hilbert Haar The municipal elections in the Netherlands that take place on Wednesday have brought the issue of integrity in local governments sharply into focus. Reading through reports in Dutch newspapers it More...
