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PHILIPSBURG - The possibility of forming a government between the MFK, PS and MAN of Curacao, is seemingly now in shambles.
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PHILIPSBURG - In Mid August Commissioner of Aviation Frans Richardson visited Central America and Europe in order to secure new air links for the island of St. Maarten.
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PHILIPSBURG - The island council of the island territory of St.Maarten, during the island council meeting on Thursday at the Claude Wathey Legislative Hall, did no ... Read more
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PHILIPSBURG - The island council of the island territory of St.Maarten, during the island council meeting on Thursday at the Claude Wathey Legislative Hall, did not get the full backing of the island council for the proposed joint Central Bank for Curacao and St.Maarten.
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PHILIPSBURG - The island government of St. Maarten signed the contract on Friday afternoon with the St. Maarten Housing Development Foundation (SMHDF) for the management of 70 homes in the Hope Estate Project.
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PHILIPSBURG - In order to travel to the US, it is mandatory to get an ESTA before departuret for those ravelers who hold an US Visa Waiver in their passport.
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PHILIPSBURG - In order to travel to the US, it is mandatory to get an ESTA before departuret for those ravelers who hold an US Visa Waiver in their passport.
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PHILIPSBURG - On Friday September 3rd at 09.30 a.m. the swearing-in ceremony of four officers took place in the office of the Acting Lt. Governor Mrs. Rachnilda J.A. Lynch-Arduin at the Government Administration Building in Philipsburg.
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HOLLAND - An 18-year-old youth from Vlaardingen has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a 16-year-old boy in central Amsterdam on Thursday evening.
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HOLLAND - Mad cow disease or BSE has been identified in a 10-year-old cow, the farm ministry confirmed on Friday.


PHILIPSBURG--Brooks Tower Accord (BTA) permit-holders have an additional two weeks to file for extensions under the temporary-legalisation programme, chief coordinator Tiara Haselhoef said on Thursday.
Only about half of the 4,000-plus Brooks Tower recipients have applied for extensions since the project started on August 2.
The Central Government decided recently to give these persons until the end of September, past the initial September 18 deadline. The BTA extension allows most applicants to remain legal residents for three years as long as they "keep complying" with the ... Read more
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PHILIPSBURG--The Daily Herald has been reliably informed that the Island Government has appointed Crastell Gumbs to lead the negotiating team to find a suitable partner for the TelEm Group of Companies or a company that would opt to purchase TelEm outright.
Commissioner in charge of TelEm Group affairs William Marlin could not be reached to verify the report on Thursday. However, three companies have received letters indicating that negotiations will commence soon. These companies are Caribbean telecom giant Digicel, Lime (Cable & Wireless) and U ... Read more
PHILIPSBURG--St. Maarten has finally established and put regulations in place for the Office of the Ombudsman, a public representative and a defender of the constitution for Country St. Maarten, after years of talking about it. The law on the Ombudsman was passed by the Island Council on Thursday along with several other "organic laws."
Those regulations, derived from articles and stipulations in the constitution, had to be in place ahead of the Round Table Conference (RTC) in The Hague on September 9 that will vet the readiness of St. Maarten and Curaçao to become countries within ... Read more

Cleanup operations continued Thursday in the wake of the passing of Hurricane Earl, which downed trees, disrupted the electricity and water supplies, and caused minor damage in communities across the island on Monday. While heavy seas and seaweed were blamed as major factors in the disruption of electricity generation as a result of the passing of the storm, tons of seaweed washed ashore by the storm ... Read more
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HOLLAND - The father of an alleged victim of a man on trial for making child pornography attacked the suspect in court in Zwolle, the Stentor newspaper reports on Thursday.