Supreme Court puts civil inquiry at harbor companies to rest
PHILIPSBURG — The Supreme Court has firmly closed the door on a request from the Public Prosecutor’s Office to order a civil inquiry into the St. Maarten Harbor Holding company and twelve associated businesses. More...
Court freezes Over the Bank long lease decisions
PHILIPSBURG -- The Court in First Instance criticized successive ministers of Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment and Infrastructure VROMI) for the way they deal with the issuance of rights of long lease More...
Court justifies dismissal of VROMI’s Secretary-General Louis Brown
PHILIPSBURG — The Court for Civil Servants Affairs confirms in a ruling dated January 17 that the dismissal of Louis Brown as the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment More...
Supreme Court sends Alegria/TOCA timeshare case back to the Court of Appeals for a new ruling
PHILIPSBURG – The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled on Friday that Alegria Real Estate does not have to honor the rights of timeshare-owners at the former Caravanserai Beach Resort. The timeshare-owners, More...
Building permit for Planet Hollywood ruled unlawful
PHILIPSBURG – In August 2019, less than two years after Hurricane Irma, the VROMI Ministry eagerly approved a permit to allow Sunwing’s plan to build Planet Hollywood St. Maarten Beach Resort on the location More...
Black payments come to haunt local jeweler
PHILIPSBURG – KRK Corporation, a company, doing business as Diamonds Forever and Milano Diamond Gallery, is on the ropes because it paid two former employees black ('zwart') on top of their regular income. The More...
Matser’s conviction for tax fraud stands
PHILIPSBURG – Former Member of Parliament Silvio Matser has found no reprieve at the Supreme Court in The Hague where he contested his 2017 conviction for tax fraud. The Supreme Court judges – Willem van Schendel, More...
Court subjects MP Brownbill to public humiliation
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance subjected parliamentarian Chanel Brownbill to public humiliation in its blistering ruling on Tuesday that sentenced the defendant to 18 months of imprisonment, with More...
Court blocks return of forged ID-papers
PHILIPSBURG – A man with two aliases who is currently detained in the Pointe Blanche prison saw an attempt to regain possession of items the prosecutor’s office confiscated twice, strand in the Court in First More...
Ombudsman rules complaint of the marketplace vendors against the removal of kiosks founded
Philipsburg — In the case filed by a group of thirty marketplace vendors, the Ombudsman considered the complaint founded, and ruled that the standards of Reason, Active and Adequate Information Provision, More...
