Flood-prone areas studied
BVI Beacon
Dr. Zoran Vojinovic shows computer models of his St. Maarten work to Sharleen DaBreo, the director of the Department of Disaster Management. Photo: DDMDr. Zoran Vojinovic, an associate professor of hydroinformatics at the UNESCO Institute for Water ...

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Stomach Flu Sickens St. Maarten Cruise Passengers
ABC News
A health ministry official in St. Maarten says that more than two dozen cruise passengers were sick as the vessel docked in the Caribbean island. Maria Henry of the Collective Preventive Services says the Celebrity Silhouette disclosed the cases of ...
Cruise Passengers Struck By Stomach Flu In St. MaartenHuffington Post

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Senior Travel: Great deals on positioning cruises
Baltimore Sun
Other cruises stop at some combination of San Juan, St. Maarten, Tortola, Antigua, the Azores, Madeira, Gibraltar, the Balearics, Valencia, Genoa, Marseilles, and terminate in Rome or Venice. -- A few cruises take a more northerly route; ...

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Small Bites: This week's restaurant news
C-Ville Weekly
St. Maarten Café, the Corner joint that served up “seafood, burgers, friends & fun” just as the sign indicated, has closed after 26 years in business. The decision to close was sudden and the reasons unknown. There's a Friends of St. Maarten's facebook ...

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BYM Sailing & Sports News
BYM News (press release)
Get ready to witness the biggest name in contemporary Reggae, Beres Hammond, grace the Kim Sha Beach stage for the closing night of the 2012 St. Maarten Heineken Regatta! Beres Hammond, (born Hugh Beresford Hammond, 28 August 1955, Annotto Bay, ...

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St. Maarten official says Celebrity cruise ship reported 31 cases of stomach ...
Washington Post
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten — A health ministry official in St. Maarten says that more than two dozen cruise passengers were sick as the vessel docked in the Caribbean island. Maria Henry of the Collective Preventive Services says the Celebrity ...

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Stomach Flu Sickens St. Maarten Cruise Passengers
ABC News
A health ministry official in St. Maarten says that more than two dozen cruise passengers were sick as the vessel docked in the Caribbean island. Maria Henry of the Collective Preventive Services says the Celebrity Silhouette disclosed the cases of ...

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Stomach flu sickens St. Maarten cruise passengers
The Associated Press
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) — A health ministry official in St. Maarten says that more than two dozen cruise passengers were sick as the vessel docked in the Caribbean island. Maria Henry of the Collective Preventive Services says the Celebrity ...

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Police: Missing man's boat found in PR
BVI Beacon
26 aboard the power catamaran Ocean Star bound for St. Maarten, according to a police press release. Mr. Stoutt was reportedly with two other men at the time. United States Coast Guard officials said the boat was discovered “upside down drifting,” the ...

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Bird Island makes Yahoo!'s list of World's most Unusual Beaches
StarNewsOnline.com (blog)
Yahoo! has put out its list of the world's most unusual beaches, and joining the likes of St. Maarten and a glass beach in California is Bird Island, the southernmost spit of Sunset Beach in far western Brunswick County. Oh, and it has nothing to do ...

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More than 60 turn out for USSA briefing
The Triton
By Editor More than 60 yacht captains and senior crew attended the US Superyacht Association's 7th annual Captains Briefing in St. Maarten last month, attending several informational sessions and networking events. Julie Liberatore of Maritime ...

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MiamiHerald.com
St.Maarten: Heineken Regatta,
MiamiHerald.com
More than 200 yachts and 2500 sailors from as far away as Russia and Brazil are expected for this year's St.Maarten Heineken Regatta, which began in 1980 with a dozen entries. Festivities begin March 1 with an opening party at Port De Plaisance and run ...
Caribbean News and Views from February 2012All At Sea

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Caribbean News and Views from February 2012
All At Sea
St. Maarten – At a party held at Bliss night club in December the Sint Maarten Yacht Club Regatta Foundation announced that Sea Hawk Paints have joined the Heineken Regatta as a presenting sponsor. “We are proud to be chosen as one of the Official ...

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Gary Browns Editors Log including Pets and Super Swabs
All At Sea
I regularly cross St. Maarten's Simpson Bay Lagoon by dinghy and my course takes me past several boats that are home to a motley collection of barking dogs. Seeing them always reminds me of my early sailing days when my wife and I cruised the English ...

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International students used as cash cows, says student federation head
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Seven years after moving from her Caribbean island of St. Maarten to study at Toronto's York University, Vanessa Hunt says she would be happy to call Canada home after graduation. But after spending her early adult years living, working and studying in ...

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BVI News Online
BVI among record 100 sailors from 12 countries to set sail in Club Nautico de ...
BVI News Online
San Juan, Puerto Rico – A record 100 sailors from 12 islands and countries – Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, all three US Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Maarten, Curacao, Guatemala and the United States – set sail today ...
Club Nautico de San Juan International Regatta winners namedSail World

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SKNVibes.com
Experts study flood-prone areas to present possible solutions
SKNVibes.com
I am personally involved with the flood risk issues in St. Maarten, so I was asked to come and look at the issues here, and propose cost-effective solutions.” Dr. Vojinovic and his team have done intense work in creating numerical models for coastal ...

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Tropical Super Bowl trips
Fox News
From there, they ran with the idea, and for the past 16 years Kaplan and his friends have been traveling to destinations like Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, St. Maarten, Key West – and this year – Turks and Caicos. They'll be staying at the Ocean Club West ...

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International students lament high cost of earning Canadian education
Winnipeg Free Press
Seven years after moving from her Caribbean island of St. Maarten to study at Toronto's York University, Vanessa Hunt says she would be happy to call Canada home after graduation. But after spending her early adult years living, working and studying in ...

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In the Hotseat -Adrian Martin!
Netherlands Antilles Daily Herald
Out 'n About met up with Adrian, who calls St. Maarten home, to find out a little more about this magic feat and Adrian's super chef skills. I was born in Houston, Texas. My dad is from Louisiana and my mom is French, but I was raised on St. Maarten ...

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