Opinion

Subject: Rebuttal GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten - Through this medium I, Mr. Rogerrel Mauricia, President of the NAPB, wish to submit my rebuttal on the last article placed in the December...

I just read a letter sent to His Excellency Governor Eugene B. Holiday by Renate Brison, Secretary of the Pro Soualiga Foundation that starts with: “Pro Soualiga, on behalf of...

Julio R. Romney B.A, M.P.A., A.B.D Sint Maarten Institute for Public Policy Studies     With the Parliament of Sint Maarten deliberating the apparent need to “end the violations of...

UPDATED “FOOD FOR THOUGHT (PART II)”: I am an eternal optimist. The glass is always half full rather than half empty. My Letter to the Editor of April 9, 2020,...

For clarity sake I have freely translated or paraphrased the articles. My apologies if the meaning is lost in the translation, I have attempted to give the English speaking population...

The people of St. Maarten so called owes a debt to the Dutch government in the amount of some Ang. 900 million of which I understood we are paying Ang....

August 3, 2020 It saddens me when I hear some people boast about being French and Dutch. These are nationalities imposed on us by the colonial powers who to date...

WILLEMSTAD - The government is in talks with the Netherlands about the content of the reform package. If an agreement is reached on this, the third tranche can be given...

July 17, 2020 I listened to two radio programs on which matters of our constitutional nature were discussed. I don’t claim to be a constitutional expert, however it is expected...

Background SONA With the establishment of SONA in 2004, the Netherlands and the then Netherlands Antilles (later the countriesCuraçao and Sint Maarten and the Public Bodies Saba, Sint Eustatius and...