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Three injured as car, taxi crash on bridge
May 19, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–A black Hyundai Elantra collided with a Ford Eco Line F350 taxi in the vicinity of Prins Bernhard Bridge on Friday, May 18, around 2:20am….
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May 18, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–Minister of Public Housing Theo Heyliger said Wednesday that he was thankful to be able to make a dent, though just a ten-per-cent dent, in the need for social homes in St. Maarten.
Heyliger was speaking at the groundbreaking for the first of 18 homes in 13 buildings in Belvedere: the so called “Villas” in Belvedere.
Swearing-in of new cabinet tentatively set for Monday
May 18, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–The swearing-in of the new National Alliance (NA)-led Cabinet is “tentatively” set for Monday, once all seven candidate-ministers have passed the Justice and security service screening successfully, Caretaker Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams announced on Wednesday.
“No issues” are expected with screening of the candidates…
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Taxand group financial analysis not yet approved by government
May 18, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–United Kingdom-based Taxand Group has devised a financial analysis (so-called straw-man) with budgetary effects on the proposed fiscal measures, but it has not been approved by the Council of Ministers as yet, outgoing Finance Minister Hiro Shigemoto told the press on Wednesday.
The Department of Fiscal affairs has to draft a…
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Heyliger outlines projects that are set to start soon
May 18, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Theo Heyliger outlined a number of projects Wednesday that his Ministry has started and…
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Dutch Quarter residents block drainage project
May 16, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–Dutch Quarter residents temporarily blocked the Dutch Quarter road and ongoing drainage upgrading project on Tuesday because they thou…
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Island Governor Berkel says accusations are ‘unfounded’
May 15, 2012
ST. EUSTATIUS–Despite being disappointed in what he described as “unfounded accusations” by former Commissioner Koert Kerkhoff, Island Governor Gerald Berkel said Monday he had made “all relevant information available” to the National Government Representative, concerning his alleged wrongdoings surrounding the fall of the previous coalition.
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Bus association has no problem with foreigners getting licences
May 15, 2012
~ May send petition to governor ~
PHILIPSBURG–St. Maarten Bus Drivers Association President Jose Slac distanced his association and its members on Monday from a statement published in Monday’s issue of The Daily Herald expressing concern about foreign nationals receiving bus licences.
In the pa…
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Wilsoe orders stop to ‘Bientu’ investigation
May 15, 2012
WILLEMSTAD–Curaçao’s Minister of Justice Elmer “Kadè” Wilsoe (PS) says he will order Attorney General Dick Piar to stop what he considers the illegal investigation and prosecution of lottery boss Robbie dos Santos in the so-called “Bientu” (Wind) case.
In a memo dated May 11 to Parliament, the minister said he would issue a so-called “…
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Vetting of candidate-ministers should be concluded this week
May 15, 2012
PHILIPSBURG–The vetting of the seven candidate-ministers for the new National Alliance (NA)-led coalition is expected to round off “by the end of this…
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