A true diplomat
The latest campaign rhetoric coming out of the USP camp exposes a question we have been wondering ourselves. Who is the true leader of the United Democrats party? Another question mulling on our minds is that of More...
Questions
We have been asked by one of our readers why no one is posing questions to the COO of PJIA airport about the status and progress of the airport’s insurance claim. The reader writes that he thinks everyone More...
Emmanuel attacks newspaper again
PHILIPSBURG – Vromi-Minister Christophe Emmanuel continued his relentless attack on the media – the Daily Herald in particular – during Wednesday’s Council of Ministers press briefing. “If you don’t More...
Actions
Ok, let’s recap this issue as succinctly as possible for readers. First there was some written action resulting in a letter. Then there was some oral action on the radio about the letter being actionable. This More...
Lifetime employment
The news that Cable TV workers found themselves locked out despite a court ruling in their favor shows the limitations all workers in a post-Irma environment can and will be facing: lifetime employment is a thing More...
Our choice for Person of the Year 2017
Our nominations for Person of the Year certainly garnered a lot of responses. Our choices were based on who made headline news in 2017. As a media outlet, our hint should have given our readers an idea as to what More...
Caretaker Parliament
Parliament has been in full swing this past week. We have seen a number of meetings held on discussion topics, amendments and a draft law debate, namely an urgent Central Committee meeting about the Draft National More...
Vanity Plates
As was to be expected, former Prime Minister William Marlin countered Minister Emil Lee’s story with his side of the story: He never gave Minister Lee permission to use MR plate on his private vehicle. The More...
Court ruling
The news about the landmark ruling in the court case against Windward Islands Bank shows that not everything that is considered common practice here in St. Maarten, especially after we achieved Country Status on More...
Agreement is agreement
Elton Jones made an interesting observation in his opinion piece submitted to us which we published as a column on our website under the title “Vengeance“. He wrote and we quote: “It appears that More...
