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St. Maarten hopes for more marines and help
PHILIPSBURG / HILVERSUM – “We are very happy with the marines that were sent here, but this is still not enough. We hope that more help is coming,” expressed 30-year old Marvio Cooks from St. Maarten. He More...
Hurricane Irma destroys St. Maarten: ‘everything seems wiped away’
WILLEMSTAD/PHILIPSBURG – Hurricane Irma, a hurricane of the heaviest category (5), raged over St. Maarten on Wednesday. The damage is so extensive. So far one death has been confirmed as a result of the hurricane. More...
Government priorities remain opaque
GREAT BAY – The Council of Ministers began yesterday morning with the presentation of its governing program 2016-2020 to the Central Committee of Parliament. Today reported extensively about the contents of the More...
Vote buying trial from 2010 finally nears its conclusion
GREAT BAY – With the appeal hearing against the last two defendants the 2010 vote buying case is nearing its conclusion, but election fraud remains alive and kicking in St. Maarten. while the legal battle of the More...
The Casablanca case: “Telling that many women came back to work more than once”
GREAT BAY – That the defendants in the Casablanca case did wrong is clear from the verdicts the court handed down yesterday (see related story on page 1: Light sentences in Casablanca case). The defendants “are More...
Too old
The decision by Louis Mussington’s party MJP to get rid of its co-founder Raymond Helligar because he is, at 68, considered too old is at best a very clumsy political move. Age discrimination in the work place More...
Political polls
The parliamentary elections on Wednesday in the Netherlands are not only a test for the political parties that have been angling for favors from the electorate. They are also a test for the polling agencies that More...
Prison time for fencing stolen car
GREAT BAY – The Court in First Instance sentenced Shawn Emmanuel Benders on Wednesday to a 4-month prison sentence for fencing a stolen car on November 29 of last year. Benders was found driving the car with Veon More...
Unhappy
When we received a story for publication containing the opinion of René ‘Koto’ Wilson about the screening process, we declined to publish it. Not that we deny anyone the right to his opinion – any letter More...
Useless treatments
The report that more than one thousands of medical treatments are actually useless is quite an eye opener, as is the report that the cost of healthcare in the Netherlands has shot up by 40 percent over the past More...
