St. Maarten News

May 05, 2023

PHILIPSBURG:--- The House of Parliament will sit in a Public meeting on May 5, 2023. The Public meeting is scheduled for Friday, at 14.00 hrs. in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelminastraat #1 in Philipsburg. The Prime Minister, Ms. S...

May 05, 2023

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Committee of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment, and Infrastructure (CVROMI) of Parliament will meet on May 5, 2023. The Committee meeting, which was adjourned on January 18, 2023, will be reconvened on Friday at 10:00 h...

May 04, 2023

PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister Rodolphe Samuel and the Department of Sports, within the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth, and Sports is proud to announce the development of the Boardwalk sports park and the Belvedere sports park which is being executed ...

May 04, 2023

 BONAIRE:--- The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) and its members invite all residents on Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten to participate in the Big Live Nature Quiz on Saturday 13th of May, 6-7 pm. Learn more ...

May 04, 2023

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Department of Community Development, Family & Humanitarian Affairs (CDFHA) is proud it announces its second “Get Ready, Get Prepared” information session on hurricane preparedness in May 2023 from 6.30 pm – 8 pm. Further, the ob...

May 03, 2023

PHILIPSBURG (DCOMM):--- The Collective Prevention Services (CPS), a department in the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (Ministry VSA), would like to inform the general public, that Youth Health Care (YHC) will be closed from Mond...

May 03, 2023

Fight leads to an arrest (SABA) In the evening hours on Sunday, April 30, a 29-year-old woman with the initials J.T.L. was arrested for violating the BES Arms Act and violently resisting an officer of the law. The suspect was involved in a brawl in En...

May 02, 2023

The Foundation Judicial Institutes St. Maarten/Stichting Justitiele Inrichtingen Sint Maarten (SJIS) is pleased to announce the official launching of the awareness and recruitment campaign Foster Care Month 2023, on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023, in the Gov...

May 02, 2023

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers joins with our colleagues in Grenada in mourning the passing of Journalist, Odette Campbell. Ms Campbell, who served the media in Grenada and the wider Caribbean over the decades, contributed immensely to the...

May 02, 2023

Greetings to all media workers across the Caribbean on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day being observed on May 3. The theme of this year’s World Press Freedom Day- “Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of expression as a driver for all other human...

April 30, 2023

PHILIPSBURG:--- On the evening of April 29, 2023, the Swat team of the St. Maarten Police Force arrested the suspect, E.S.M., related to the shooting incident on March 26, 2023, at Kimsha Beach. This arrest took place at the Princess Juliana Internatio...

April 29, 2023

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Sint-Maarten Police Force (KPSM) would like to remind residents and visitors alike that of the upcoming Grand Carnival Parade, which will take place May 1, 2023, and will pass through Front Street. As such, parking is not permitted ...

April 28, 2023

SABA:--- The Saba Fire Department on Wednesday, April 26th, unveiled the newest fire truck added to its fleet. The new fire truck will go into service starting immediately. The truck, manufactured by Wiss from Poland, is a significant upgrade from the ...