Council of Ministers Establishes Integrity Project Bureau to Execute Recommendations of Integrity Reports

To ensure that integrity on Sint Maarten is handled in an adequate manner, the Council of Ministers approved the organizational structure thereto. The recommendation to install a workgroup to be…

Marine community supports Minister Lake’s initiative to clean-up coastal debris from Hurricane Gonzalo.  Effort to get underway December 6th

Minister of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure (Ministry VROMI) Hon. Maurice Lake is very pleased to learn that the marine community has accepted his initiative appeal for a…

Attempted armed robbery/security guard shot

On Sunday November 16th at approximately 12.00 p.m. several police patrols, detectives and paramedics were sent to the Atlantis Casino in the Cupe Coy area to investigate a robbery at…

Department of Youth Affairs to Celebrate 2014 International Day of the Rights of Children

-Awareness campaign to focus on Child Abuse The Department of Youth Affairs is launching its official annual awareness campaign in commemoration of the International Day of the Rights of the…

Central Committee Meeting of Parliament scheduled for Tuesday surrounding August 29th parliament election discrepancies

The House of Parliament will meet in a Central Committee session on November 18th. The committee meeting is set for Tuesday at 2.00pm in the General Assembly Chamber of the…

Changes in Healthcare Insurance Claims Regulation as per 1 January 2015

The BES Healthcare Insurance Claims Regulation (Regeling Aanspraken Zorgverzekering BES (RAZ BES)) stipulates which healthcare claims are included in the BES healthcare claims package. In other words: what can be…

BTP-SXM ESTABLISHED WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH ECTEL – MULTI STATE TELECOM REGULATOR

Director of Bureau Telecommunications and Post St. Maarten (BTP-SXM) Mr. Antony Carty together with supporting staff paid a working visit to St. Lucia to meet with the ECTEL, the Multi-State…

SER A POLITICAL FOOTBALL

By: Roland Tuitt, MBA, CPA General The SER is an advisory council and not a higher council of state that gives requested and unrequested advises to government. Recently the SER…

Central Committee Meeting of Parliament scheduled for Monday. Minister of Finance to be present

The House of Parliament will meet in a Central Committee session on November 17th. The committee meeting is set for Monday at 2.00pm in the General Assembly Chamber of the…

Evaluation Committee visits Statia November 18th

The Evaluation Committee that will study the effects of the new constitutional status of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba will visit St. Eustatius on Tuesday November 18th and Wednesday November…