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  PRISON, Sint Maarten (KPSM) -- The Sint Maarten Police Force (KPSM) is currently investigating a disturbing incident of ill-treatment that occurred at the prison facility located in Point Blanche (HVB). On Monday, , personnel from the Detective Department were alerted to an incident involving the ill-treatment of a prisoner by another inmate. According to initial reports, the victim sustained slash...

  SINT MAARTEN (POINT BLANCHE) – 20 stevedores working for St. Maarten Shipping & Stevedoring NV (SSS), completed six-days of training carried out by the Institute for Industrial Solutions (IIS) led by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Trainer Osric Forrest, and Technical Expert/Assessor Radcliffe Spence. The certificates were presented by Lilian Hohl, CMA CGM local area representative in the presence of...

  PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - The House of Parliament will sit in a Central Committee meeting on April 17, 2024.   The Central Committee meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 11.00 hrs. in the Legislative Hall at Wilhelminastraat #1 in Philipsburg.  The agenda points are: Nature policy Plan Sint Maarten 2021-2025 (IS/031/2022-2023 dated September 22, 2023) Advice concerning appointment of 1st Acting Secretary...

  CAY HILL, ST. MAARTEN -- International Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon Dr. Marlon Buncamper recently performed the first ever deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast surgery at St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC). Dr. Buncamper, shadowing Plastic Surgeon Dr. Marleen Meesters and a team of skilled operating room team performed the surgery to restore the breast shape of a patient...

  I presented a motion in June of 2021 almost 3 years ago asking that the subject of debt cancellation for St. Maarten  be discussed. I was moved to do so after discovering that St. Maarten was paying 12.7 million guilders annually on an almost 1 billion guilder’s debt. It is no secret that it would take some 100 years...

  SINT MAARTEN (POINT BLANCHE) – In order to satisfy the demands of one of the port’s biggest customers CMA CGM, businessman George Pelgrim President of St. Maarten Shipping & Stevedoring (SSS), considered the premier stevedoring services company on the island, has started a program that would ‘Create the Total Port Worker’ in cooperation with the Jamaican based Institute for...

  In preparation for the commemorations of May 4th Memorial, and May 5th Liberation Day,  the Sint Maarten Library has distributed over 1700 copies of the new edition of the  Caribbean Thinking Book to all primary and secondary schools on April 10th and 11th ,  2024.   The Caribbean Think Book distribution was made possible by the collaboration of National Committee 4...

  PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten- The House of Parliament will sit in a Central Committee meeting on April 15, 2024.   The Central Committee meeting which was adjourned on March  18, 2024 will be reconvened on Monday at 14.30 hrs. in the  Legislative Hall at Wilhelminastraat #1 in Philipsburg. The  Minister of Finance will be in attendance.   The agenda point is:  Detailed outline...

  Public Entity Saba is set to receive a Search and Rescue (SAR) Boat during the first half of 2025 to be used in the process of finding and rescuing people who are in distress on or in the water, such as in the case of vessel collision, passengers going overboard or a plane crash. This will be funded by...

  NPOwer, an initiative of the Foresee Foundation (4C), is set to launch its 2024 workshop series with a renewed focus. Observant non-profit organisations (NPOs) will now receive invitations that include the term 'Academy', a subtle yet significant shift highlighting the foundation's commitment to elevating and professionalising the NPO sector in St. Maarten. Foresee Foundation has planned a series of twenty...