While the grass is growing, the horse is starving
Dear Editor, We are about over a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact of this disease on our island nation has been nothing short of disastrous. The impact has meant 2134 confirmed infected cases with 27 More...
Unfair incarceration
Dear Editor, The practice of locking people up for questioning has got to stop. Taking innocent people out of their beds at all hours and locking them up is inhumane and should be unlawful. Everyone is presumed More...
Another Public Holiday, Really?
Dear Minister Panneflek, Do we REALLY need another public holiday for our businesses to stay closed or have to pay overtime if we chose to open anyhow? Why did the COM not just give THEIR employees the day off More...
Food For Thought Part III
Dear Editor, This opinion piece on Koninkrijk.nu is well worth space and time in our local media according to me. Had I written this following Koninkrijk.nu article myself, I probably would have called “Food For More...
St. Maarten Covid-19 Chronicles
~ An opinion article by former minister of TEATT, Stuart Johnson ~ Oh, how I wish deep within my soul we were in better times and better prepared to handle the challenges we are now facing. Like so many of you, More...
Why St. Maarten Is Still A Colony Of The Netherlands
Dear Editor, In 1946, the Netherlands’ three colonies were Indonesia, Surinam, and the former Netherlands Antilles. In 1946, under the United Nations Resolution 66 (I) (UN Resolution 66 (I) all three aforementioned More...
High Councils of State & First Responders carried our Democracy past Decade
Philipsburg, October 19, 2020 Gracita Arrindell reflected on the past ten years and said: “Ten years of constitutional reform arrived fast and furious. October 10, 2020. It’s been a tumultuous decade plagued More...
Rebuttal to article about Pro Soualiga Foundation
Dear Editor, I recently read your article concerning a letter sent by Pro Soualiga to the Cft. In said article, there were some erroneous and misleading statements. 1) The Court’s decision had nothing to More...
Food for thought (part 2)
Dear Editor, I am an eternal optimist. The glass is always half full rather than half empty. My Letter to the Editor of April 9, 2020, entitled FOOD FOR THOUGHT in which I concluded THIS COUNTRY STATUS EXPERIMENT More...
How to overcome challenges victoriously
If I keep bringing you sad news, does your mind have the time to be happy? If I am always speaking negative around you, is your mind ever able to process the positive? If I keep spreading bad information, will More...
