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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Barack Obama will become the first US president to set foot on Jamaican soil in more than three decades Wednesday, as the United States bids to check Venezuelan influence in the Caribbean. Obama will arrive in Kingston for a meeting with the 15-member CARICOM Caribbean bloc, the first time a sitting US president visits the...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Ministry of Public Housing, Environment, Spatial Development and Infrastructure (Ministry VROMI), Project Manager, Raymond Chittick supervised the installation of the first two floodgates yesterday by Windward Roads and HCW, which is the firm that designed and developed the floodgates in the Netherlands. The grills were also installed, which will operate as a preventative mechanism for large...

PHILIPSBURG – United People’s (UP) party Member of Parliament (MP) Hon. Maurice Lake addressed on Tuesday in the House of Parliament social media rumours that he was involved in a plot to throw down government and send home the Cabinet of Prime Minister Marcel Gumbs. “It's good to be back in the House of the People.  There were a lot...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The Permanent Committee of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport & Telecommunication of the House will meet in session on April 9. The Permanent Committee meeting is set for Thursday at 2.00pm in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelmina Straat #1 in Philipsburg. The agenda point is the moratorium policy on taxi, bus and tour licences...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Parliament’s Committee of Petitions will meet in a House session on April 9. The permanent Committee meeting is set for Thursday at 10.00am in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelmina Straat #1 in Philipsburg. The first agenda point is the committee’s work method; the second agenda point is a letter from residents of Simpson...

Renowned Carnival costume builder, Michel Raffoul, has died. In May 2013, Raffoul was rushed to hospital after suffering a massive stroke which rendered him paralyzed and speechless. He never recovered and according to family members, passed away on Monday. DNO will have more on that story.

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - As the long Easter weekend begun, the Dutch Coast Guard of the Caribbean continued to keep a watchful eye at sea, guarding the islands coastline. On Friday evening at around 7:30 they sprang into action and confiscated a go-fast in the Great Bay Harbour. We spoke to Officer Roderick Gouverneur the Spokesman of the Dutch Caribbean Coast...

CUL DE SAC, Sint Maarten -- On Sunday afternoon at around 6:30pm, the Police and Detectives arrested 3 men on the Bush Road and charged him for issuing a death threat. The arrest of the suspect came after the victim who is a female, reported the death threat to the police and detectives who organized a search for the suspect. They started...

DUTCH QUARTER, Sint Maarten -- The Traffic Department of the St. Maarten Police Force, is busy conducting an investigation into the cause of an accident which took place at around 1:50 early Monday morning. Initial reports indicate that a woman who was driving a white Daihatsu Charade vehicle on Bishop hill road, with number-plate P-4751, and heading to the Dutch Quarter...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Leona Marlin-Romeo said on Monday since December 2014, the airports of Jamaica has introduced kiosks to better accommodate and manage the flow of passengers entering the country. Independent Member of Parliament Leona Marlin-Romeo (on a private visit to Jamaica) met with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Passport Immigration and...