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Court gets around absence of pro bono laywers
PHILIPSBURG – In the absence of the pro bono lawyers who went on strike over a payment conflict with the government three weeks ago, the Court in First Instance blustered through a handful of criminal cases on More...
Three murder victims – two suspects
PHILIPSBURG – The public prosecutor’s office wants to handle the trial against two suspects in the murders of Francis Widnor (Franky) Brunache, Taheba York and Sabrina Martes in one session. Investigators found More...
Desperate measures
By Hilbert Haar In September 2016 the Court in first Instance acquitted all suspects in the Masbangu-case. That they were later sentenced on appeal is irrelevant for the point I want to make here. Masbangu was about More...
Community service for hitting boy
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Secell Daniel Common on Wednesday afternoon to 120 hours of community service for hitting the 13-year old son Jeremiah of his neighbor, who happens to be More...
Court sentences attorney for bribery
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced attorney Brenda Brooks on Wednesday to a 6-month conditional prison sentence and a 10,000 guilders fine for bribing an immigration officer on July 2, 2016. More...
Corporate Governance
By Hilbert Haar It sounded good when the government established the Corporate Governance Council back in February 2010, but history shows that it was predominantly a paper tiger. “The council will advise the More...
Higher punishment for attempt to rob Prime Distributors
PHILIPSBURG – Two men who aborted an attempt to rob Prime Distributors in Cole Bay on December 8, 2016, received heavier prison sentences in the Court in First Instance on Wednesday than the public prosecutor More...
MP Richardson to court on June 11
PHILIPSBURG – On Monday June 11, MP Frans Richardson (United St. Maarten party – USp) will appear in court as a suspect in the Emerald and Squid investigations. Together with Richardson, former port director More...
Bad birthday: arrested for gun possession
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Bryan Giovanni Henson to 15 months of imprisonment, with 3 months suspended and 2 years of probation, for firearm possession on Wednesday. The prosecution had More...
Court finds no proof for ill-treatment
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance acquitted four defendants of committing public violence on September 30, 2017, against a man one of them had just thrown out of his apartment. But the court found More...
