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GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – Collective Prevention Services (CPS) of the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour (Ministry VSA), says that tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a burden around the world as nations came together on Tuesday, March 24 to raise awareness about TB on World Tuberculosis Day. This year’s theme is: “Find, Treat, Cure TB.” The World...

SOUTH REWARD, Sint Maarten - A section of the American football team the  Miami Dolphins cheerleaders squad visited 2 high schools, namely the Milton Peters College and the Charlotte Brookson Academy. The Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders are on a cruise and the ship stopped at Port St. Maarten on Tuesday, March 24. During the visit, the cheerleaders will also be participating in a...

(CNN)Latest developments: • 5:11 p.m. ET: Two Australians were killed in the Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash in southeastern France, according to Australian media, citing Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. "Sadly, I can confirm that there were two Australian citizens on board, a mother and her adult son from Victoria," Bishop said, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. "Our thoughts and...

BBC Live Reporting By Josephine McDermott, Caroline McClatchey, Paul Blake and Thom Poole All times stated are UK 21:12 Students have attended mass in Llinars del Valles, the Spanish town where a group of German teenagers on board the Germanwings flight had been visiting as part of an exchange programme. Australian victims Posted at21:02 Two Australians - a woman and her adult son - were on...

(CNN)Latest developments: - 11:12 a.m. ET: Francis Hermitte, the mayor of France's Seyne les Alpes, told CNN that he has not heard anything about a "moving body," as a Spanish newspaper reported. - 11:12 a.m. Michel Suhubiette, a mountain guide in France, said he heard a plane fly at alarmingly low altitude shortly before the crash. By Tuesday afternoon, at least a...

BBC Story FRANCE,  - An Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne, French aviation officials and police have said. The jet belongs to the German airline Germanwings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa. The plane, flight 4U 9525, had been en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf with 144 passengers and six crew. No one is expected to have survived,...

POND ISLAND--The TelEm Group says Monday's five-hour interruption of its high-speed Internet service was due to a "malicious cyber attack." The company said in a press release Monday night that it had traced the interruption in its high speed ADSL Internet service to "malicious hackers who directed a cyber attack aimed at bringing down the Internet service provider (ISP) network." Logs...

Ministers for Social Development will on Tuesday March 24th 2015, discuss an action plan which further protects the lives of children and vulnerable families in the OECS. While they do they will be considering recommendations from key players in this drive to raise the level of empowerment in the most vulnerable particularly in the midst of serious global financial challenges....

KOMUNIKADO DI POLIS : Sta Maria, Curacao - Djasabra 21 di mart 2015 alrededor di 22.15’or Sentral di Polis a dirigí un unidat pa F.D. Rooseveltweg pa un kaso di tiroteo. Na yegada di e unidat, nan a bin topa e hòmber J.R.F. di 28 aña di edat nase na Kòrsou, ku un herida di bala den su boka. Ambulans a transportá e víktima...

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao - Djadumingu 22 di mart 2015 alrededor di 12.45’or, Sentral di Polis a risibí notifikashon di un kaso di hinkamentu ku a tuma lugá na un kas na Triangelweg. For di investigashon a sali na kla ku dos ruman tabatin diskushon ku otro. Durante di e interkambio di palabra aki, R.N.D. nasé na Caracas di 18 aña lo...