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By The Publisher On Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
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Hypnotic manager sentenced to 24 months in court

PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced J.P. on Wednesday morning to 24 months of imprisonment, with 12 months suspended and 2 years of probation. P.’s pretrial detention remains suspended until More...

By The Publisher On Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
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Robber sentenced to 4 years for bank robbery

PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Sheldon Elroy Ludovico Williams to 4 years of imprisonment for his role in an armed robbery at the Scotia Bank in Simpson Bay on June 9 of last year. At the More...

By The Publisher On Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
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Prosecution demands 15 months against tax dodger in Emerald-trial

PHILIPSBURG – Fifteen months of imprisonment and a conditional fine of 250,000 guilders ($139,665) with three years of probation. That was the public prosecutor’s demand on Tuesday afternoon against Keith Gastia More...

By The Publisher On Sunday, February 4th, 2018
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Anti-corruption task force stays another four years

PHILIPSBURG – The anti-corruption task force (Team Bestrijding Ondermijning – TBO) will continue its work for the next four years in St. Maarten. The budget for the task force is €10 million ($12.4 million More...

By The Publisher On Monday, January 29th, 2018
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Prosecution aims to reclaim millions from Schotte

WILLEMSTAD – The public prosecutor’s office  aims to seize more than 2 million guilders from Curacao’s former Prime Minister and leader of the MFK-party Gerrit Schotte and his partner Cicely van der Dijs. More...

By The Publisher On Sunday, January 28th, 2018
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Why yes to Spadaro and not a basketball court for the youth of Fort Willem Mr. Giterson of UP/DP coalition?

Dear Editor, Why is this interim cabinet hell-bent to destroy the approval granted by his predecessor CHRISTOPHE EMMANUEL of the NA to build the long awaited and promised basketball court for the youth of Fort More...

By The Publisher On Friday, January 26th, 2018
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Integrity Chamber: Protection of the fundamental rights of persons involved in an investigation addressed

Philipsburg — Having established that the concerns presented to the Constitutional Court, which led to the first Ordinance on the Integrity Chamber being squashed, and the contours offered by the Court for More...

By The Publisher On Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
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Fatal stabbing suspect stays behind bars

PHILIPSBURG – Is Akil Amaru L. guilty of stabbing Gary Zorilla to death on July 20 of last year? The answer to that question will become clearer during the trial on April 18. Until that time, the 20-year old defendant More...

By The Publisher On Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
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Drugs mule gets 18 months

PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Juan Eugenio Martis to 18 months of imprisonment with 9 months suspended and 3 years of probation for smuggling 83 bolitas containing a kilo of cocaine from More...

By The Publisher On Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
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Belligerent armed robber remains detained

PHILIPSBURG – A man charged with three armed robberies, allegedly committed only a couple of months after having served a lengthy prison sentence, gave the judge, the public prosecutor and his own attorney a mouthful More...