PP card regulation labels two-thirds of households as paupers
PHILIPSBURG -- The costs for health care services to so-called PP card holders are more than ten million guilders higher than budgeted, it appears from a compliance audit by the General Audit Chamber. The auditors More...
Minister Irion: St. Maarten is the most compliant country with SSRP execution
~ Gives special recognition to SZV, ATS, and SMDF ~ PHILIPSBURG — The Minister of Finance, Mr. Ardwell Irion, recently presented the teams of Social & Health Insurances (SZV) and Audit Team St. Maarten More...
MP Brison’s initiative law proposes a $30 health levy to tourists
PHILIPSBURG — Visiting tourists will be charged with a health levy of $30 every time they visit St. Maarten if an initiative law proposed by Member of Parliament Rolando Brison (UP) becomes a reality. Brison More...
Minister Ottley’s insurance-plan draws criticism
PHILIPSBURG — The announcement by Minister Omar Ottley (Public Health) that he intends to increase the salary-ceiling for insurance under SZV from 67.816 to 120,000 guilders (from $37,886 to $67,039) per More...
Financial situation social security funds is untenable, Cft says
PHILIPSBURG — The financial situation of St. Maarten’s social security funds is untenable, financial supervisor Cft writes in a reaction to the country’s second execution report for the year 2021. The More...
Senior diabetics complain about SZV and Medicosmetics
PHILIPSBURG – Medicosmetics provides faulty testers for people suffering from diabetes, the Antipoverty Platform and the Consumers Coalition said through their spokesman Drs. Raymond Jessurun at a press conference More...
Government debt of NAf 91 million to SZV one step closer to resolve
PHILIPSBURG — Director of SZV Glen A. Carty and Minister of Finance Perry Geerlings signed a letter of intent on Friday August 23rd regarding the outstanding social & health insurances premiums owed by Government More...
Shady business at SZV? Maybe not
PHILIPSBURG – ‘Shady business taking place at USZV, Medwork and Medicosmetics’; thus read a recent headline on a notorious gossip-blog. The underlying article spoke of a “shady affiliation’ of Medwork More...
Mr. Integrity
By Hilbert Haar Politics is a dirty game and everybody and his uncle knows it. So when somebody gets in the way of a hidden agenda, the spin doctors and people who are ready to do their bidding come out of the woodwork. In More...
Idiot America St. Maarten-style
By Hilbert Haar When I heard Fernando Clark’s interview with Dr. Michel Petit my mind automatically went to a book I read some years ago, entitled Idiot America: How stupidity became a virtue in the land of the More...
