Test for evaluating candidates
Dear Editor, My test for evaluating candidates for the upcoming election is to question them on how easy it is to make things better on Sint Maarten. If they claim it is easy then they drop on my ratings. Much of More...
Jokey
There is a commonly used word here on St. Maarten that, when used, aptly describes a funny but ironical situation in just one five-letter word: “jokey”. We had a ‘jokey’ situation yesterday More...
“Dissolution decree could be annulled”
PHILIPSBURG – A letter regarding the dissolution decree has gone out to the Kingdom Council of Ministers citing “constitutional infringements that have been going on since 2016,” Prime Minister Leona Marlin-Romeo More...
D-Day for PPA and Gracita Arrindell
Pond Island — Gracita Arrindell is making a passionate plea to the electorate to come out today, Monday, January 15th, to the former Census Office located on Pond Island from 9am to 4pm to endorse the PPA More...
22,559 eligible voters for February elections
PHILIPSBURG – The voters registry for the February 26 elections closed on December 6; it contains the names of 22,559 eligible voters. If the turnout for the elections is similar to that of the 2016 elections More...
Postponing elections is unconstitutional
Dear Editor, Many people are saying they are fed up and tired of elections and that they are not going out to vote. Since 2010 Sint Maarten has had three elections. In September 2010, August 2014, and September More...
When Tension Rules
Tension means “ the state of being stretched tight”. It connotes unrest and depicts uncertainty. Recent events on St. Maarten has exposed the urgent need for the government to work together without aggravating More...
Marlin brushes aside practical objections against elections
PHILIPSBURG – Prime Minister William Marlin says that there are simple solutions for all the concerns that have been vented about the January 8 elections. The government has freed up a budget of 661,000 guilders More...
Marlin still willing to discuss national government
PHILIPSBURG – “How did we get there? Irma hit.” Prime Minister William Marlin is still reeling from the recent political developments that brought down his government, but he doesn’t think the hurricane More...
DP-leader Wescot-Williams:“I hope the governor comes to his senses before Monday”
PHILIPSBURG – “The discussion is not about the right of the government to use article 59. No one is disputing that. But I have a serious problem when it is used at a time like this,” DP-leader MP Sarah Wescot-Williams More...
