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September 14, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - President Sarah Wescot-Williams opened the Parliamentary Year with a bold theme and an honest admission. Fifteen members, seventeen committees, seven factions — and a secretariat running on short staff. Here is what the annual report says about how S...

September 14, 2026

SINT MAARTEN/NETHERLANDS - The work of FREEGAN foundation on Sint Maarten has received national attention in the Netherlands. On Monday, August 31, the organization was featured in Expeditie Nederland, broadcast by Omroep MAX on NPO 2 at 6:30 PM. The episode focused on social...

September 14, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (POND ISLAND) - The University of St. Martin (USM) hosted Lit Night @ USM on Thursday, September 10, bringing students, faculty, staff and members of the wider community together for an evening of poetry, spoken word, storytelling and creative expression. The even...

September 14, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - The Sint Maarten Library joined the other libraries of the Dutch Caribbean—the CAS islands (Curaçao, Aruba, and Sint Maarten) and the BES islands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba)—in taking an important step in the further development of their shar...

September 14, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - The Kingdom of the Netherlands abstained from a United Nations resolution recognizing the trafficking of enslaved Africans and slavery as a crime against humanity. Sint Maarten, Aruba, and Curaçao were not consulted beforehand. They responded — toget...

September 14, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - In the early morning hours of Monday, September 14, 2026, shortly after 1:00 a.m., police officers conducting controls on the Zagers-Gut Road intercepted a white Kia Seltos that had previously been identified in a video circulating on social media. T...

September 14, 2026

The Ministry of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication (TEATT), through the Inspectorate of Economic and Transport Affairs (IETA), has published the list of Touring Car (T-Plate) and Unregulated Transport (G-Plate) operators that have successfully completed...

September 14, 2026

The Sint Maarten Entrepreneurship Development Center Foundation (SEDC) successfully concluded the first cohort of its fisheries training program, held from August 31 to September 5, 2026. SEDC contracted the services of Nature Foundation, with Sabrine Brismeur&n...

September 14, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Soualiga Employers Association (SEA) is calling for urgent government action to address the deteriorating financial outlook of health and social insurance funds administered by Social & Health Insurances (SZV), warning that combined reserves are projected to...

September 14, 2026

GREAT BAY--On the nomination of Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs, Louis Brown has been appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the St. Maarten Cadastre and Mortgage Registry Foundation for a three-year term, according to a national decree that has now been officially p...

September 13, 2026

GREAT BAY--National Alliance Member of Parliament Darryl York submitted 33 letters containing written questions to ministers during the 2025-2026 parliamentary year, more than any other MP, according to Parliament’s newly released Annual Report. York’s total placed him 10 lett...

September 13, 2026

GREAT BAY--Parliament held 93 meetings, significantly increased the use of written questions to government, processed seven new draft national ordinances but passed only one, while expanding its regional and international engagement during the 2025-2026 parliamentary year...

September 13, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (COMMENTARY – By: Sherritza Peterson & drs. Xiomara Balentina) - In part one, we explored whose knowledge is considered important. In part two, we spoke about how the Caribbean child develops an understanding of self through the people and institutions around...