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Armed robbery suspect faces 4 years in prison
PHILIPSBURG – Darius Edvar Ricardo A. is looking at a possible 4-year stay at the Pointe Blanche prison for his role in an armed robbery at the Gold Star jewelers on August 17 of this year. the court will pronounce More...
Justice Minister Boasman: “Replacing Pointe Blanche prison is the best option”
PHILIPSBURG – The best option is to replace the Pointe Blanche prison,” Minister of Justice Rafael Boasman said at Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. “The final assessment is still being made More...
Point Blanche Prison inmates transported off-island
Philipsburg — On Thursday November 2nd and Friday November 3rd a total of 59 inmates that were housed at the Point Blanche Prison were relocated to detention centers in Curacao and the Netherlands. 28 of More...
Minister Boasman about prison: “We have to look at safety for all”
GREAT BAY – Minister Rafael Boasman (Justice) said yesterday that the Progress Committee has given him the time to implement his plan for the Pointe Blanche prison. The minister said that the plan of approach 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...
Why prisons are empty in the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM – The closure of five prisons in as many years against the background of a falling crime rate, is the kind of news many governments would give their eye teeth for, St. Maarten included. But not everyone More...
Prison
One may well wonder why St. Maarten’s Pointe Blanche prison has become the home of a convict who shot somebody in Aruba last year. With a sentence of 18 years to his name, the inmate will spend at least the next More...
Matser recruited voters in prison for UP in 2014
That is the suggestion of the prosecution in the summons GREAT BAY – Prison Director Edward Rohan gave MP Silvio Matser in August 2014, when he was a candidate for the United People’s party, a list of eligible More...
“French prison system needs to be fixed urgently”
Says Louis Mussington. MARIGOT—The French prison system is in dire need of repair and as a result the French Republic is looking at the amount of finances needed to have the Penitentiary in Basseterre and Point-e-Pete More...
Prison search
Prisons are the same all over the world, though some prisons are obviously worse places to be than others. But they have one thing in common: their residents have nothing else to do all day long than thinking about More...
