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POLICE INVESTIGATE SINGLE CAR CRASH – SOUTH DOCK ROAD Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a single car crash on South Dock Road. Shortly after midnight on Saturday 18 July 2015, emergency services were called to South Dock Road, following reports of a single car crash. Initial investigations suggest a Dodge Durango, being driven by a man believed to be aged in...

Police arrest South Hill man for Possession of Cannabis and Resisting arrest. ANGUILLA -- The Royal Anguilla Police Force on Sunday 19th July, 2015 at 3:00 pm arrested a 26 year old man from South Hill for possession of cannabis and for resisting arrest. The offender was today charged with the offences and taken before the Magistrate’s Court where he was...

SAINT LUCIA -- A 57-year-old woman was discovered dead in her Cedar Heights, Vieux Fort home today. The woman was discovered by her husband with a plastic bag over her head, according to reports. She was last seen at about 8:00 a.m. An investigation has been launched by the police. No further details are available at this time. - See more at: http://www.stlucianewsonline.com/breaking-news-woman-found-dead-with-plastic-bag-over-her-head/#sthash.2KPqIvwN.dpuf

PHILIPSBURG – Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport & Telecommunications Hon. Claret Connor, spoke at the opening of theInternational Congress for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA) at the Sonesta Maho Beach Resort. The IACA is being hosted by St. Maarten from July 19-25.  The IACA Congress is the largest gathering of professional archaeologists specializing in Caribbean studies in the world, with representatives...

Sandy Ground- Sint Maarten's Oualichi Women's Soccer Team Oualichi WST secured the second place spot at the three-day female soccer tournament organized by FC Concordia at the Alberic Richards stadium this weekend. After suffering a five nil defeat against the visiting Dominica Women's Team on Friday evening Oualichi drew 1-1 through a penalty free kick scored by Dagmar Daal on...

By The Daily Herald PHILIPSBURG--Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten President economist Emsley Tromp has issued a counter-opinion on the question whether the broader opening up of communist Cuba will have a negative economic effect on St. Maarten and the wider Caribbean. “I am not sure that Cuba immediately will represent a threat to the Caribbean,” said Tromp on Thursday...

By The Daily Herald PHILIPSBURG--“I think it is ill-advised, at this juncture, to have a split in the monetary union,” said Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten President Emsley Tromp about the union shared by the two Dutch Caribbean countries since October 10, 2010. However, the decision to split or stay together is purely “a political decision” Tromp told the...

By The Daily Herald PHILIPSBURG--St. Maarten’s economy expanded by 1.5 per cent in 2014, and inflation decelerated from 2.5 per cent in 2013 to 1.9 per cent in 2014, due to a decline in international oil prices, President of the Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten (CBCS) Emsley Tromp announced on Thursday, at the presentation of the Bank’s 2014...

Willemstad, Curacao -- Djasabra 18 di yüli 2015, alrededor di 13.00’or, Polis a detené e dama D.J.B. di 51 aña di edat nase na Kòrsou en konekshon ku estafa. E detenshon a tuma lugá den un establesimentu na Jan Thiel. A presentá e dama sospechoso dilanti un fiskal ouksiliar ku a ordená su enkarselamentu pa mas investigashon. ### Búskeda di hobensita ta kaduká....

French Quarter, Saint Martin – Another bike accident in French Quarter , it was around 15:50 pm in the afternoon when an eyewitness told 721news room  that a tourist driving a Hyundai i10 on the main road of French Quarter, tried to make a left turn without signaling the direction they were going. At the same time a scooter rider...