GEBE looks beyond cost cutting measures to the future
PHILIPSBURG – Utilities company GEBE is looking for a new insurance broker after it found out that its pre-Irma insurance covered damages caused by hail and snow but not damages caused by wind speed, the More...
GEBE and KADASTER in serious financial difficulties
PHILIPSBURG — The financial situation of the Kadaster and the island utility company GEBE is said to be in dire straits. According to reliable sources it was stated that the former Minister of Finance Richard More...
Questionable behavior
By Hilbert Haar The General Audit Chamber-report about Dutch assistance to St. Maarten in the wake of Hurricane Irma reveals that one of the island’s key state-owned enterprises – utilities company GEBE More...
High Tension Cable Works along Little Bay road June 09, 10 and 11
GREAT BAY — Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – Ministry of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Development and Infrastructure (Ministry VROMI), announces that utility company NV GEBE will be carrying out civil works More...
Dollars, not guilders
By Hilbert Haar An alert reader pointed out to me that the price the waste-to-energy plant would charge GEBE for a Kilowatt of electricity is $0.26 and not 0.26 guilders. This is correct and I apologize for the More...
The question nobody ever asked
By Hilbert Haar The dump remains a hot item and for good reason. For decades dump fires have affected the health of citizens and for decades the government had failed to do something about it. The construction of More...
Envirogreen incorporated four months after signing agreement with former Minister Emmanuel
By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – When former Minister of Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (VROMI) Christophe Emmanuel signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian company Envirogreen More...
Frans asks GEBE to expedite restoration to parts of Cay Bay
Philipsburg — Member of Parliament and leader of the United St. Maarten (US) party Frans Richardson is calling on GEBE to at least explain to residents of Cay Bay why they are still without electricity 6 months More...
“Waste-to-energy won’t bring down electricity tariffs”
PHILIPSBURG – The electricity tariffs for consumers will not go down once a waste-to-energy facility begins to produce power from waste. That says Roy Marlin the former chairman and currently board member of More...
Emmanuel’s waste-to-energy memorandum
PHILIPSBURG – On December 14 of last year, former VROMI-Minister Christophe Emmanuel paraded a memorandum of understanding to journalists during the weekly Council of Ministers press briefing about the construction More...
