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PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - The public prosecutor office in Sint Maarten took part in the SXM-DOET campaign this past weekend. The two day program started on Friday March 20 and finished on Saturday. Volunteers along side the prosecutor office planted flowers at the sister Regina school among other clean up activities.     

BELVEDERE, Sint Maarten - Results of the annual SMSEF Interscholastic Soccer Tournament at Johan Cruijff Court in Belvedere, All scheduled games were played as teams managed to field enough players. This was, however, no easy feat on Saturday, March 21, due to the traffic congestion in the area. The traffic congestion was caused by the bicycle races that passed the area...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The Central Committee of Parliament will meet in public session on March 24. The public Central Committee meeting is set for Tuesday at 10.00am in the General Assembly Chamber of the House at Wilhelmina Straat #1 in Philipsburg. The three point agenda is: a presentation on the role of the Council of Advice and the working relationship...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten -Board met with minister of education Rita Bourne Gumbs on Friday at the government administration building. The meeting was called to discuss the recent attack on a teacher by a primary student in Belvedere, previous assaults against teachers were also discussed. The WITU after consulting with its members of all public schools, gave a clear mandate to...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The House of Parliament will meet in a public plenary session on March 24.  This session is the continuation of the initial session that was held on December 22, 2014.  On March 11, the meeting was called, but due to a lack of a quorum,, it could not continue and is now being reconvened. The plenary...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - The ladies of the Oualichi Women’s Soccer Team kept it to a 1-1 draw against FC Gazelles from Anguilla during an exciting match played at the Sandy Ground Soccer Field on Sunday. During the second half FC Gazelles from Anguilla scored the first goal but Karoline Quispe through an assist from Yasmine Moes scored an...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - The Sint Maarten Nature Foundation is hosting two researchers from the Van Haal Larenstein Institute of Science who are conducting shark and ray research on Sint Maarten. The two researchers Jens Odinga and Olivier Kramer, are working with the Nature Foundation on researching the amount, type and location of sharks and rays in territorial waters,...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - Inspector General Dr. Earl Best made a statement in a brief press release to The Daily Herald on Friday: Quote:...."that the recall only applies to macaroni and cheese 7.25-ounce boxes of the original flavour of Kraft macaroni and cheese dinner. With "use by" date of September 18, 2015-Oct 11, 2015 with a code of "C2" at the lower...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - The yearly “Fete to fitness Jump around Town up” which was organized by the Sint Maarten Carnival Development Foundation which was held on Saturday March 21st was well attended by revelers and onlookers was a great success. The jump up started on time at 08.00 p.m. on the Sucker garden in the vicinity of Monchi’s Bar...

POLICE REPORT PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten - Two 18 year old men were arrested by police on Saturday March 21st after an attempt was made to rob two supermarkets in the Dutch Quarter area. At the first supermarket the manager succeeded to close the door just in time to avoid being robbed. The culprits then took off on foot. Within minutes after...