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August 13, 2026

CARIBBEAN (By Carla Williams Johnson) - Every few years, the business world finds a new word everyone suddenly needs to use. Right now, that word is positioning . Scroll through social media and the message is everywhere: position yourself as an expert, position your brand for...

August 13, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (SIMPSON BAY) - The Sint Maarten Yacht Club (SMYC) is proud to celebrate the successful completion of the third year of its Sailability Program, a sailing initiative that has been transforming lives since its launch in August 2023. Made possible through funding fr...

August 13, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - Member of Parliament (MP) Christopher Wever, through the Wever Works Foundation, has continued his annual support for students with donations of school bags and school supplies to Judicial and Institutional Services and Dr. J Enterprises, a foster ho...

August 13, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - The new Caribbean Research Platform Foundation ( stichting CaRP ) is receiving a grant of 1.4 million euros from the Dutch Research Council ( Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek , NWO) to provide support services to the research c...

August 13, 2026

GREAT BAY--Member of Parliament Darryl York says St. Maarten must do a better job of maintaining contact with students and professionals abroad, warning that the country cannot lose touch with them for five or ten years and then suddenly expect them to abandon established care...

August 13, 2026

GREAT BAY--MP Sjamira Roseburg, Chair of Parliament’s Committee for Kingdom Affairs and Interparliamentary Relations, CKAIR, has put a series of questions before the Kingdom government seeking clarity on St. Maarten’s financial responsibilities, representation and decisio...

August 13, 2026

GREAT BAY--Native Nation St. Maarten (NNC SXM) is continuing to expand its community and environmental initiatives, with growing participation in its Farmers Market and Recycling Drive and approximately 1,200 bottles collected during its most recent recycling event. The o...

August 12, 2026

GREAT BAY--Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure, VROMI, Patrice Gumbs has announced a coordinated clean-up effort that will target roads, overgrown greenery and abandoned and wrecked vehicles as government steps up efforts to improve the...

August 12, 2026

GREAT BAY--Member of Parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams says the position of unpaid and informal caregivers in St. Maarten is an issue Parliament is aware of and intends to examine, including how the status of people who provide unpaid care to relatives and loved ones could be m...

August 12, 2026

GREAT BAY--Member of Parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams has asked the Minister of Finance to examine whether St. Maarten’s tax laws can be adjusted to make qualifying donations to education, sports, charities and other community causes more attractive to individuals who want to...

August 12, 2026

GREAT BAY--International medical cannabis physician and policy advisor Dr. Joseph Rosado will be among the featured speakers at the “Building the Future of Cannabis Regulation” public forum on Friday, August 14, where he will address how St. Maarten can develop a medical canna...

August 12, 2026

GREAT BAY--Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Melissa Gumbs has congratulated the Collectivity of Saint-Martin and Valérie Damaseau on the initiative to establish an official territorial flag for the French side, describing the effort as an important step in natio...

August 12, 2026

CAY HILL--The National Sports Institute, with the support of Argos Antilles and Samenwerkende Fondsen Cariben, is currently developing a new dedicated boxing facility at the Raoul Illidge Sports Complex (RISC). The project will provide a safe and accessible space for the conti...