Frans: Constant instability stalls any progress at landfill waste management
Philipsburg — In light of the current ongoing fires at the Philipsburg landfill, the United St. Maarten (US) party is once again pointing out that the constant instability of government has effectively stalled More...
William Marlin says landfill fire clear example why stability in government needed
GREAT BAY — Former Prime Minister William Marlin says the disastrous and uncontrollable fire that has been blazing at the Philipsburg landfill since Sunday and the widespread effects it is having on residents More...
Nature Foundation Makes 100 Facemasks Available to Charlotte Brookson Academy for the Performing Arts Due to Schools Close Proximity to Philipsburg Landfill
Philipsburg — The Sint Maarten Nature Foundation has made 100 facemasks available to the Charlotte Brookson Academy this week. The facemasks were donated on two separate occasions by Nature Foundation Project More...
Nature Foundation Suggests Communities Surrounding Philipsburg Landfill Wears Facemasks to Protect Against Harmful Fumes; Makes 100 Available For Free
Philipsburg — The Sint Maarten Nature Foundation is suggesting that the community wears facemasks in order to protect themselves from the fumes caused by the ongoing fires at the Philipsburg Landfill, and More...
Choice for Envirogreen Energy seems to be no coincidence
PHILIPSBURG – The choice of VROMI-Minister Christophe Emmanuel for the Canadian company Envirogreen Energy for the waste-to-energy facility on Pond Island seems to be more than a coincidence. Envirogreen Energy More...
Minister Emmanuel presents his solution for waste-to-energy project
PHILIPSBURG – “I believe that the powers to be don’t want to fix the problem because they benefit from the situation as it is.” caretaker VROMI-Minister Christophe Emmanuel said on Wednesday about his plans More...
Man killed by garbage truck
GREAT BAY – Initial reports reaching Today Newspaper Online newsdesk at noon indicated that there was an accident on the landfill which resulted in the death of one man from the Dominican Republic. According More...
URGENT NOTICE : DUMP SMOKING AGAIN
Close windows and doors if downwind from landfill fire for those with respiratory challenges GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – The Fire Department, is advising persons living downwind from the landfill fire, to More...