Ansary and Co sentenced to repay more than one billion guilders to ENNIA
PHILIPBURG -- Majority shareholder Hushang Ansary has to repay insurance company ENNIA more than one billion guilders (close to $563 million) to compensate for a string of financial irregularities that negatively More...
Serial killer Fortune finally sentenced for Chauviré-murder
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) sentenced Grenada-born Kathron Fortune in October to 30 years of imprisonment for the rape and murder of Angélique Chauviré in 2006. Fortune is currently More...
Prison time looms for parliamentarian Frans Richardson
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Member of Parliament Frans Richardson, leader of the United St. Maarten party (USp) on Wednesday to 36 months of imprisonment for accepting $370,000 in bribes More...
Court sentences attorney for bribery
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced attorney Brenda Brooks on Wednesday to a 6-month conditional prison sentence and a 10,000 guilders fine for bribing an immigration officer on July 2, 2016. More...
Court finds no proof for ill-treatment
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance acquitted four defendants of committing public violence on September 30, 2017, against a man one of them had just thrown out of his apartment. But the court found More...
Dutch ex-cop sentenced for selling forged international driver’s licenses
PHILIPSBURG – The court in Marigot sentenced a former Dutch policeman for selling forged international driver’s licenses to at least one hundred people on the French side of the island for amounts varying More...
Screaming tattoo artist guilty of looting and ill-treatment
PHILIPSBURG – The sentencing hearing of tattoo artist Rikinaldo Francisco Murray did not go according to plan on Wednesday afternoon because the 46-year old defendant lost it when he realized that he was also More...
Young man sentenced for attempted rape
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Kareem Munaf Prince on Wednesday for an attempt to rape his former girlfriend on August 21 of last year, stealing a Wifibox from her home and threatening her More...
Man sentenced for possessing semi-automatic weapon
PHILIPSBURG – On December 21, unknown gunmen fired shots at Erno Labega jr. when he came back home. His car was riddled with bullet holes and Labega sustained serious injuries, but he survived. When police arrived More...
Armed robber sentenced to ten years
PHILIPSBURG – The Court in First Instance sentenced Collin Anthony James on Thursday to 10 years of imprisonment for his role in three armed robberies he committed in Philipsburg in July of last year. James, 30, More...
