
Food for thought: how we choose our Potential Candidates
By Roberto Achken Richardson We need to see the realities as they are after being elected to the Parliament of Sint Maarten. Obtaining Seats after the outcome of any Election is primarily dependent on a Political More...

Time to grow UP
Dear Editor, You will not meet a more nationalistic person than me. I bleed St. Maarten through and through. So when you hear me say that it’s time for the Dutch to step in, you know it’s serious. We have had More...

Interactive Public Lecture on Understanding the Constitutional Structure of St. Maarten
PHILIPSBURG — Political Analyst and scholar of Comparative Government & Politics in collaboration with the University of Saint Martin (USM) kindly invite the general public (the youth and aspiring politicians, More...

A questionable motion
By Hilbert Haar Fake news will become the most popular game in town in the run-up to the November 25 elections. LOGIN TO READ MORE... THIS IS A PREMIUM ARTICLE. ... Some articles or portions of articles are restricted More...

POLITICS NAVIGATING BETWEEN THE WAVES OF JUSTICE AND POWER
As the great value of education for every citizen, since last century, has been recognized by almost all governments in the world, such generally has resulted in better attention being given to elevate the quality More...

Pirates of Caribbean politics
The situation in Curacao is going from bad to worse after the election blooper of the interim cabinet led by Gerrit Schotte’s puppet Gilmar Pisas. Now the already convicted MFK-leader himself is once again in More...

Direct vs Indirect Taxes
All over the internet you come across the same statement: “In 1939 St. Maarten was declared a duty-free port”. Literally, every wiki site and encyclopedic source online about the history of St. Maarten More...