
Draft COHO-law hits another stumbling block
PHILIPSBURG — Contrary to earlier optimistic reports, the draft consensus kingdom law COHO (Caribbean Development and Reform Organization) is not ready to be sent to the parliaments of the four countries More...

Controversy puts Knops’ role as Mr. Good Governance on the line
PHILIPSBURG — State Secretary Drs. Raymond Knops (Kingdom Relations) is at the center of a controversy after the Dutch newspaper NRC reported that he used the services of civil servants to solve a private More...

Report describes St. Maarten’s “silent crisis”
PHILIPSBURG – The Economic Bureau Amsterdam produced at the request of the Dutch parliament a report about performance, opportunities and solutions for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, entitled Small Islands, More...

Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease management update
Since 2014, a new coral disease has been spreading through the reefs of the Caribbean. Known as Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), this disease appears to be fast-spreading and extremely lethal to the corals More...

Work together and develop an equal Kingdom
By Dr. Francio Guadeloupe, Jordi Halfman and Nicole Sanches When your house is on fire you do not fight about who is to blame or how the fire may have started. Before you do anything else, you try to minimize the More...

Council of Police Chiefs meet on Sint Maarten
PHILIPSBURG — On Tuesday November 14th the Police Chiefs of Curacao, Caribisch Nederland, Sint Maarten and the Acting Chief of police of the Netherlands met with the Honorable Minister of Justice Rafael Boasman More...