Massive re-design marketplaces in Philipsburg envisioned
PHILIPSBURG - Minister of Tourism and Economic Affairs Mellissa Arrindell-Doncher on Tuesday said St. Maarten will get marketplaces in Philipsburg residents can be proud of, long overdue suitable spaces for Philipsburg taxi's, an organized tour...
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Dear Reader
There is a massive amount of news items in this newsletter today. It is almost like a magazine. Please do take the time out to review all of the news articles contained in this newsletter today. We don't want you to miss out on anything.
Just like we certainly didn't want you to miss out on the massive project announced by the minister of TEATT to re-design the marketplaces in Philipsburg and expand these with green spaces, taxi holding area, tour busses terminal and new vending kiosks for registered vendors. Check out the beautiful artist renditions. Very inspiring. Almost makes you forget there is an election coming up.
Click here to read this article and view the pictures.
Last year, we almost hit the jackpot with the Pearl of China project. Remember that one? In Curacao, the Chinese can't seem to deliver on their promises there either. But it is not only a Chinese affliction. The American space company, XCOR, that had aimed to offer flights into space with its Lynx rocket plane from a launching platform in Curacao, is bankrupt and the space tourists who paid more than €70,000 – 260 in all, for a total of more than €18.2 million (close to $21,.5 million at the current rate of exchange) – have lost their money.
Click here to read the full report of this failed project.
Projects that do seems to succeed time and time again, are the simple community projects where local people come together and work side by side for a common good. The work of the
Tzu Chi Foundation, the
Red Cross, the
SXM POWER Project, the
Engage Foundation, the
Fruits de Mer Association, and even that
Yoda Guy got it right when it comes to small scale project developments to help build back up our communities. The consistency of these groups of people to get the jobs successfully done is what is admirable and commendable and should inspire us to sometimes think small if we want to achieve great things.
Even we are grateful to all of you who have registered for a subscription plan with us. Every small step counts. You can continue to do so online at
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Finally, the 1st Annual Customer Service Week is from November 27th to December 1st at the Holland House Beach Hotel and there is still room for more participants, though space is limited. Last-minute walk-ins paying cash at the door will also be accepted. Their Job Readiness Course will be a hit, we believe, with many jobless post-Irma. Check online at
www.AcademyCSMA.com for more information about the available courses and their Irma special rates.
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Homeless St. Maarteners in a bind in the Netherlands
HAARLEM - For months the municipality of Haarlem has refused to register homeless citizens from St. Maarten, but last Thursday it seemed that the city administration had changed its position, Natasja Gibbs reports on Caribisch Netwerk. Two single ...
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Ombudsman stands up for homeless St. Maarteners
HILVERSUM - National Ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen wants answers from Minister of Home Affairs Kasja Ollongren about the problems with registering homeless St. Maarteners in certain municipalities, Natasja Gibbs reports on Caribisch Netwerk....
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Front Street comes back to life - but it is not there yet
PHILIPSBURG - One of the more forward thinking entrepreneurs on Front Street is Nick Maley, the iconic artist who stood at the basis of the Yoda character in the Star Wars movies. Maley's Star Wars museum survived the onslaught of Hurricane Irma...
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StMaartenNews.com Editorial
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Maybe there is some silent diplomacy going on behind the scenes; we don’t know that. But to the public eye it seems right now that St. Maarteners who fled to the Netherlands after Hurricane Irma and who are encountering difficulties registering in municipalities like
Haarlem are left out in the cold by the government of St. Maarten.
It is bad enough that Haarlem stubbornly denies Irma-refugees their most basic rights as Dutch citizens. The national ombudsman, Reinier van Zutphen, has in the meantime
intervened with questions to Home Affairs Minister Kasja Ollongren. But the refugees have so far, and as far as we know, not received any form of support from the government in St. Maarten.
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StMaartenNews.com Poll Results
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Yes - 10%
It depends on the case - 30%
No - 20%
No, no one is above the law - 40%
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Should the St. Maarten government assist the homeless St. Maarteners in Holland?
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StMaartenNews.com Photo of Day
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Royal Dutch Navy ship Pelikaan docked in St. Maarten
GREAT BAY - HNLMS Pelikaan (A804), the logistic support vessel of the Royal Dutch Navy docked at the port in St. Maarten on Monday afternoon. The spokeswoman for the navy in the Caribbean, Canan Babayigit, told stmaartennews.com that the rotating ...
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Urgent Central Committee meeting yesterday cancelled
The urgent Central Committee meeting of Parliament about the draft amendments to the budget 2017 amendment that was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon was cancelled at the request of the Minister of Finance until further notice.
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The Curaçao Media
Years ago some minister took a popular decision to approve, in one clean sweep, all petitions for radio stations that were lying in the popular drawer for years. I said then that it would start a war and that it would be who would have the...
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Central Bank appoints temporary directors
PHILIPSBURG - The Central Bank of Curacao and St. Maarten temporarily appointed Leila Matroos-Lasten to the function of director secretary and José Jardim to financial economic director on Monday. The appointments were necessary to prevent that...
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Space tourism from Curacao falls apart
WILLEMSTAD - XCOR, the American company that aimed to offer flights into space with its Lynx rocket plane from a launching platform in Curacao, is bankrupt and the space tourists who paid more than €70,000 - 260 in all, for a total of more than...
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WHO calls on farmers and food industry to stop using...
GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending that farmers and the food industry stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals. The new WHO recommendations aim to ...
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Cruise sector Stakeholders Invited to Cruise Experience
PORT ST. MAARTEN - Port St. Maarten Management is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the first cruise passenger experience on December 4th when the first commercial cruise ship returns to the destination, will be one of discovery for the ...
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Engage in Literature Read-a-thon to benefit Philipsburg
Philipsburg - ENGAGE foundation and the Coffee Lounge have teamed up to support the Philipsburg Jubilee Library with a 10 hour read-a-thon. The Read-a-thon is the brainchild of the Engage Foundation, as the foundation strongly believes in the...
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Ministry of VSA collaborates with SXM POWER PROJECT
Great Bay - The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labour (VSA) partnered with SXM Power Project to provide generators to households without power since the passing of Hurricane Irma. Certain areas within some of our districts such...
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Book review: Liviticus by Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite in Liviticus - like the Psalmist in Babylon; like the weeping prophet, a book review by John Robert Lee MARTIN, Caribbean (November 2017)-Liviticus, published in 2017 by House of Nehesi Publishers, is a new collection that is at...
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Gracita: "Rotterdam showed overwhelming support for Sint..."
PHILIPSBURG - Gracita states: "just recently back home after attending an intense work-shop of the 'Living University', this time in Rotterdam, Holland, I am grateful for the overwhelming support extended during the seminars to the People of Sint ...
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Minister Lee thanks Red Cross NL and SXM
GREAT BAY - Minister Lee congratulates Red Cross on their parallel launch of their food voucher program. We are thankful for their coordinated effort to support and expand on Government's Basic Necessities Voucher Program. These two programs...
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Neville York honored at LU St. Maarten Day celebration
CAY HILL - Students and faculty of the Learning Unlimited (LU) Preparatory School paid tribute to the late Neville York on Friday, November 10th with a St. Maarten's day celebration in his honor and by unveiling his memorial portrait in the...
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Tzu Chi donates relief items to 368 families
Philipsburg - Three hundred and sixty eight families in St. Maarten benefited from a relief exercise hosted by the St. Maarten Tzu Chi Foundation on Sunday, November 5. The relief activity, which was held at Tzu Chi's location on the LB Scott...
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Photo release: "AUC donates school office supplies"
Philipsburg - The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports issued the following photo release with the caption "AUC donates school office supplies". Photo: (L-R Hazarie Ramoutar, Minister Silveria Jacobs, Ruth Linger, Juliette...
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Pond Life Ebook Offers Preview of Migratory Bird Festival
Grand Case-Each year, the Les Fruits de Mer association hosts the Migratory Bird Festival on St. Martin. The stars of this festival are the birds that travel so far to come here each year, and the wild places and creatures they depend on. This...
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With the resumption of flights on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017, we are also open to take your flight bookings to and from St. Maarten via SXM Airport.
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