By Hilbert Haar MP Grisha Heyliger-Marten is on the decolonization warpath. She has called Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs to parliament…
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By Hilbert Haar It cannot surprise anyone that the government’s cost-cutting measures in exchange for receiving liquidity support from the…
By Hilbert Haar Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs has appealed to labor unions to be more reasonable in their approach to…
By Hilbert Haar Motions are the political banana peel of the political arena. In St. Maarten they seldom result in…
By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – The kingdom’s demand that the government lowers the salaries of civil servants by 12.5 percent…
By Hilbert Haar The conditions attached to the provision of continued liquidity support have put the government in a rather…
By Hilbert Haar The verdict is in and former parliamentarian Theo Heyliger is facing a 5-year prison sentence for accepting…
By Hilbert Haar It’s been two years since I left St. Maarten. Yeah, I left because I never wanted to…
By Hilbert Haar “Unity (as of a group or class) that produces or is based on community of interests, objectives,…
By Hilbert Haar To write that these are challenging times qualifies as the understatement of the century. But here we…


