WASHINGTON- December 14, 2018 – A baseline screening of smoke from subsurface fires at the Pond Island municipal and hurricane waste disposal sites was released today by the World Bank. The screening showed that several air pollutants emitted from subsurface fires exceeded international occupational exposure limits within the perimeter of the dumpsite. These results were […]
The Algemeen Pensioenfonds Sint Maarten (APS) surprised APS member Mrs. Dirkje van den Heuvel-de Jonge when she recieved a congratulatory bouquet of flowers and a card in honor of her 100th birthday on November 6th 2018. “These moments are beautiful reminders of how important our responsibility to our members are. We are happy to see […]
He is calling out our Members of Parliament to let’s have that referendum to see what the people will decide whether to stay in the Kingdom or go independent. Van Raak said the following in his article: Sometimes, as a Member of Parliament, you get strange messages, such as the letter of the St. Maarten […]
Minister of VSA Emil Lee said on Wednesday that he experienced ‘gross non-compliance’ during his recent field visit with the Labor inspectors of VSA. Lee says that the inspectors were even denied access to conduct their inspections of a Government owned entity. Lee says he finds it unfortunate that something like this is happening and […]
The nullifying of the Political crisis/dilemma written by Julio R. Romney/Political Analyst 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 […]
A significant fish die off which is occurring in the Oyster Pond wet land area has been getting the attention of the Nature Foundation. The enduring smell is like a plague for residents in that area as well. There has been a drop in oxygen level that is caused by the heavy deposit of the […]
The St. Maarten Nature Foundation recently carried out a wide scale assessment of the threats to St. Maarten’s Native Sea Turtle population which mostly nests at Guana Bay Beach. Over the last two months there have been activities that have been occurring on Guana Bay which have caused the Nature Foundation to express grave concern […]
Political Analyst Julio Romney has said the use of formateurs by His Excellency Governor Holiday, disrupts the democratic political process of forming a Government It should be left up to the Elected Politicians and their Political Platform for, and on behalf of the people. This Topic and more discussed in this Interview with MP George […]
The department of Communications on St. Maarten is reporting that a small work group has been formed, comprising of personnel from within the Emergency Support Functions (ESF) that falls under the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), to assess and ensure National Tsunami Preparedness within Government and to develop a national tsunami preparedness plan. Last Tuesday a […]
Staff of the Sint Maarten Nature Foundation intercepted the vessel Oyster, with registration number SX1438, that was found poaching illegally in the Man of War Shoal National Marine Park at the location 17 ̊-59.511 N and 63 ̊-03.327 W close to the ‘Mike’s Maze’ dive site. The Spanish-speaking Fishermen were approached but did not comply […]
