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Suspect in teacher vehicle theft still under investigation
~ Student will have his day in court ~ PHILIPSBURG — The recent theft of a teachers’ vehicle still has the teacher in question traumatized. The fact that the teacher had left her vehicle keys on her desk More...
The road to UD-leader Theo Heyliger’s potential downfall
PHILISBURG - The arrest of Member of Parliament and leader of the United Democrats Theo Heyliger by the anti-orruption task force TBO has shocked quite a few people but it cannot have surprised anybody - not even More...
An interesting move
By Hilbert Haar Not for the first time, the Progress Committee – the club that monitors how St. Maarten is doing with the execution of Plans of Approach for the police force and the prison – has sounded More...
Progress Committee: ‘Safety of the population is at risk”
PHILIPSBURG — St. Maarten’s Plans of Approach for the police and the prison – dating back to 2010 – have not been realized by a long shot and the situation at the Pointe Blanche prison is so More...
Schotte loses appeal and is no longer MP
WILLEMSTAD – Former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte is no longer a member of the parliament in Curacao and the parliament was within its rights when it stopped paying his salary. Schotte, who is currently serving More...
Innocent life taken away
~ Minister of Justice Cornelius De Weever pays sympathy visit to incident scene ~ RETREAT ESTATE — An innocent life has been taken away today. Around midday, Sunday, January 13, 2019, an unmarked van from More...
This does not add up
By Hilbert Haar Oh, oh, St. Maarten managed to generate some bad publicity again and the attempts by Prime Minister Leona Romeo-Marlin to explain herself do not come across as utterly convincing. The story is this More...
Interview with the departing Interim Chief Prosecutor Jeroen Steenbrink
~ Invisible yet driven and focused behind the scenes ~ It seems much longer but Interim Chief Prosecutor Jeroen Steenbrink has only been serving in St. Maarten for little over a year. Steenbrink started last year More...
Supreme Court upholds Schotte’s conviction
THE HAGUE – In a 65-page ruling containing 169 articles the Supreme Court has confirmed the conviction of Curacao’s former Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte to 3 years of imprisonment and a 5-year ban from More...
