Trust Fund second payment approved for St. Maarten
THE HAGUE - The Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved a budgetary amendment to transfer the second tranche of 150 million euros to the St. Maarten Reconstruction Trust Fund. The More...
St. Maarten: Clark summoned to appear in court on November 23
PHILIPSBURG - Minister of Justice Cornelius de Weever has made good on his promise to begin a civil case against former Pointe Blanche prison Chief Operations Officer (COO) Fernando Clark who accused the minister More...
Unity at centre in The Hague St. Maarten Day celebration
THE HAGUE - Words of commitment and cooperation to restore St. Maarten to its former glory and the message of unity sounded at the St. Maarten Day celebration at the Cabinet of the Minister Plenipotentiary of St. More...
St. Maarten National Alliance wants strong message sent about self-government interference to Hague
PHILIPSBURG - The National Alliance (NA) Members of Parliament have called on fellow MPs to unite on a yet-to-be-tabled motion to tell the Dutch government to back off from interfering with St. Maarten’s right More...
Sint Maarten: Suspects deny any wrongdoing in Tourist Bureau fraud investigation
PHILIPSBURG - Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunications (TEATT) Stuart Johnson’s policy advisor Regina Labega (59) and East Caribbean Destination (ECD) Management Company managing More...
Divi Divi starts in December with flights to Sao Paulo and Philipsburg
PHILIPSBURG - Divi Divi Air will fly to Sint Maarten from December 10 and from Brazil on December 15th. Five times a week there is a flight to Philipsburg and twice a week to the Brazilian city of São Paulo. The More...
CFT asks about salary cut of St. Maarten politicians
THE HAGUE - The Committee for Financial Supervision CFT wants to know when the St. Maarten government intends to carry out the earlier promise to cut the salaries of ministers and members of Parliament by ten per More...
St. Maarten: Multi-Cruise Ship Days and inaugural call of the Largest Ship in the World Opens November High Cruise Season
PHILIPSBURG - The month of November will see a number of first for the 2018-2019 high cruise season. Multiple cruise ship days will slowly build during the month with the first six-ship day on November 14 followed More...
St. Maarten: Wescot-Williams calls for ‘speedy analysis’ of Johnson’s complaint
PHILIPSBURG - Member of Parliament (MP) Sarah Wescot-Williams has called on justice authorities “to speedily analyse” the complaint filed by Tourism and Economic Affairs Minister Stuart Johnson against a former More...
St. Maarten: Geerlings comes under fire over Gestapo comment distancing
PHILIPSBURG - Finance Minister Perry Geerlings came under sustained fire from several Members of Parliament (MPs) on Thursday, after he was quoted by a Dutch news outlet as saying it was “unfortunate” that a More...
