This is the full text of the statement from the World Bank issued on their website regarding their rights to provide information to any country receiving financing under their administration, about issues that may impact the successful implementation of the project: As a global development institution, the World Bank works in partnership and through dialogue […]
In a press statement issued Wednesday, Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs and Minister of Finance Ardwell Irion presented the three publicly debated legislative amendments to the Parliament of Sint Maarten on the cost cutting measures. The first being the Temporary National Ordinance to standardize the top incomes and reduce the employment benefits by 12.5% per July […]
The Ministry of TEATT announced at the weekend that it would step up general controls to ensure that businesses are adhering to St. Maarten’s economic rules and regulations. Many of these controls are in response to public complaints received for various infractions. TEATT has diligently worked to restore economic activities during the crisis, but in […]
For this coming New Year I would like the government of St. Maarten to start governing by the laws of the country. Start by making everyone be more Law abiding citizens, starting with our elected officials, who are supposed to lead by example. The main priority of government is to make sure that the health […]
Mr. Prefect Serge Gouteyron is the new delegate prefect installed for Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin in a ceremony held on Friday. The New State representative takes over from Madam Sylvie Feucher whose term expires and was not granted an extension. After laying a wreath of flowers in tribute to the fallen St. Martin soldiers […]
But while she remains hopeful Dutch State Secretary for Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations, Raymond Knops is reporting to the Dutch Parliament in the Netherlands that St. Maarten economy will greatly suffer and even collapse if they don’t get the necessary liquidity support that they are so dependent on to survive. St. Maarten at first […]
How much noise is too much? Michael Ferrier has a point in his letter to the editor, the noise about decolonization is pointless at this time when there are so much simpler things to get done for the country. Here is his letter in its full text: Endorsing the comments and observations by Sarah Wescot […]
The following is the full text of Michael Ferrier’s Opinion on our current situation as he sees it. He speaks of it as “Food For Thought”. I am an eternal optimist. The glass is always half full rather than half empty. My Letter to the Editor of April 9, 2020, entitled FOOD FOR THOUGHT in which […]
There was a time when St. Maarten was in a much better financial position with a growing economy and doing really good. The political leaders were at the time making government top heavy hiring lots of workers renting properties for government administration from family at a high price and setting the standard for property rentals […]
This letter is published unedited. Open Letter Honorable Prime Minister, “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” — Admiral James Stockdale. The full impact of the COVID-19 crisis […]
