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Simple solutions
When disaster hits you have one big advantage: everybody becomes available to give free advice. Such is the case after Hurricane Irma and the Dutch daily Trouw did the island a favor by asking four experts about More...
Light sentence for shovel attack
GREAT BAY –The Court in First Instance sentenced Bryan Richardson on Thursday morning to a 1-month conditional prison sentence and 120 hours of community service for hitting a man called Morisseau on August 7 More...
Man gets four months for fencing stolen car
GREAT BAY – The first session of the Court in First Instance in the courthouse after Hurricane Irma was a special one. The focus of the trials on Wednesday was on looters and it was the first time that the court More...
National Institute of Arts and Art Save Lives foundation have joined forces to offer post hurricane Irma relief program
Philipsburg — ART HEALS was conceived by the need to create activities for children and adults geared to offering relief from stresses and trauma brought on by the passing of hurricane IRMA and its aftermath. ART More...
Library wants to speed up plan for multifunctional building
GREAT BAY – The Philipsburg Jubilee Library is history in its current form. Hurricane Irma dealt the building at the Voges Street a deadly blow on September 6. “The roof was already in a bad condition for a More...
Conditions apply: Dutch ready to force the issue
THE HAGUE – A Dutch fund – with hundreds of millions of euros – for the reconstruction of St. Maarten will only become available after the government of Prime Minister William Marlin agrees to two conditions More...
Refugees from St. Maarten in “bureaucratic nightmare”
HAARLEM – A group of fifteen homeless citizens from St. Maarten has hired attorney Leandro Thomas. He has to make sure that they are able to register in a Dutch municipality, Natasja Gibbs reports on Caribisch More...
MP Theo Heyliger addresses open letter to Dutch government and its people
GREAT BAY — Member of Parliament and leader of the United People’s (UP) Party, Theodore E. Heyliger sent an open letter by way of the Dutch Representative’s office in Philipsburg to the Dutch Government More...
Building a new Caribbean
Having experienced two hurricanes cat. 5, having seen the devastation and been around to feel and understand the inconveniences, to just express it mildly; no water, no electricity or no telecommunication for an More...
Prime Minister William Marlin Constitution Day 2017 Address
PHILIPSBURG – Prime Minister William Marlin on Sunday released his Constitution Day 2017 address. People of St. Maarten, a little over a month ago, we were struck by the most powerful hurricane ever recorded. More...
