GREAT BAY, St. Maarten - The Caribbean region is home to several Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) that face similar development challenges. These include geographic and economic isolation, limited resources, environmental fragility, high costs of transportation and energy as well...
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PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The House of Parliament will sit in Central Committee meeting on Friday, August 17, 2018. The Central Committee meeting is scheduled for 10:00 hrs. in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelminastraat #1 in Philipsburg. The Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport will be present. The agenda points are: Nomination chairperson and members...
WILLEMSTAD - The Court of First Instance of Curaçao today sentenced a former Minister of Health, Environment and Nature, her husband and a former friend of that spouse for fraud corruption. A policy advisor from the former minister was acquitted of all accusations. The judgment of the Court of First Instance relates to an investigation which is based on the...
Gracita states; “Most people took a big sigh of relief when the first tropical storm threat took a turn away from Sint Maarten. It’s a fact of life, we live in the hurricane belt. It’s a fact of life, we cannot move our island up or down out of harms way, during the hurricane season. It is therefore incumbent upon...
Knowledge is understanding – with the swearing in of the Council of Ministers on June 25, 2018, the ruling United Democrats/Sint Maarten Christian Party (UD/SMCP) coalition government found itself in a political dilemma with not having enough sitting MP’s in the Parliament to govern. The 8 to 7 ruling coalition government resigned 2 of its sitting members of parliament and...
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - El ministro de Turismo, Stuart Johnson, se reunió recientemente con Nzinga Lake, presidente de la Asociación de Pequeñas Propiedades de St. Maarten, SMSPA, para obtener información actualizada sobre los desafíos y el progreso. hecho con pequeños...
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - El lunes 13 de agosto aproximadamente a las 11.00 p.m. un grave accidente de tráfico tuvo lugar en el L.B. Scot Road en las cercanías de Emilio Wilson Estate el cual involucro al conductor de un...
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