Orient Bay Beach: From top tourist attraction to desolate disaster area
By Hilbert Haar ORIENT BAY – With 95 percent of the island destroyed it comes as no surprise that one of the island’s top touristic attractions Orient Beach on the French side is also obliterated. There is More...
From top tourist attraction to desolate disaster area
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Clean up of schools
PHILIPSBURG — Hurricane Irma has left our island in a critical state. The education infrastructure serves as one of the most important pillars in our society, and has suffered tremendously. In addition, we More...
Reports about casualties vary wildly
MARIGOT – Hurricane Irma has destroyed 95 percent of Saint Martin, the president of the Collectivité, Daniel Gibbs has said. A report in the free newsletter Fax Info mentions that Irma has taken 8 lives and injured More...
Today Newspaper building severely damaged
PHILIPSBURG — Readers, subscribers, advertisers and regular visitors to the TODAY Newspaper offices will have seen by now that the office building has been ravaged by Hurricane Irma, leaving half of the building More...
The spirit of togetherness
We’ve seen help coming from all corners on the French side of the island. Firefighters from Marseille, Guadeloupe and Guyana, members of the French foreign Legion from Russia – an unprecedented outpouring of More...
Rhoda Arrindell says looting will need to be addressed
“The day before, I knew I had to prepare. Having had the experience of a few hurricanes ever since childhood, and after seeing what was to come on the radar, I thought I would prepare as best as I could for More...
Brison: Temporary suspension of airlift expected after disaster
SXM AIRPORT — Airlines suspending service to a destination after a natural disaster is expected, especially when the hotel inventory of the destination is very low, says Head of the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau More...
A Dispatch From a Caribbean Climate Change Refugee: Hurricane Irma, Sint Maarten and the New Caribbean Reality
I am standing in line – or rather in a disorganized congregation of desperate souls- in the parking lot of St. Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport, once the second busiest airport in the More...
Hurricane Irma also a disaster for pets
PHILIPSBURG –A lot of pets have not survived hurricane Irma on St. Maarten. Luckily, there are many dogs who have managed to be evacuated together with their owners or with animal lovers. The four animal rescue More...
