Finance minister outlines 94 million guilders in new borrowing while warning that staffing shortages, refinancing costs and government-company liabilities threaten fiscal stability
PHILIPSBURG:--- Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs has presented Parliament with a revised draft 2027 national budget projecting revenues of approximately 670 million guilders, expenditures of 660 million guilders and a surplus of 10 million guilders, while identifying a possible source of funding for temporary relief at t...
PHILIPSBURG:--- The Honorable Minister of Finance, Marinka J. Gumbs, recently met with former ...
The former VROMI minister who approved the invalid Tesi transaction now sits in government as VSA mi...
Joint Court finds outgoing VROMI minister pushed through controversial transaction despite parliamen...
Court awards travel costs and emotional damages but deducts more than €54,000 in unpaid child suppor...
Writer alleges Limitless Infrastructure’s demolition bid matched an internal estimate down to the ce...
PHILIPSBURG:--- The Philipsburg Cultural and Community Center (PCCC), with funding from the Ned...
PHILIPSBURG:--- Police are investigating a serious traffic accident on Bush Road shortly before...
PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Traffic and Telecommunication, the Honorable ...
PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA), Hon. Claret Con...
PHILIPSBURG:--- The St. Maarten Science Fair Foundation (SMSFF) announced that ten high schools have...
PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of Finance, Marinka J. Gumbs, warmly welcomes Officer Altenor home followin...
PHILIPSBURG:--- The Emergency Recovery Project I (ERP-I), the first project financed through the Sin...
From disputed evaluations under Doran to rejection notices under Gumbs, waste haulers are again dema...
PHILIPSBURG:--- Staff of Judicial and Institutional Services (J&IS) accompanied six young male residents of the J&IS Youth Residential Home to the launch of Castel Abraham’s book, “The Healing Man,” on Sunday, November 1, at the Belair Commun...
PHILIPSBURG:--- The Ministry of General Affairs announces that the Reception Desk of the Public Service Center (PSC), located at the Government Administration Building on Soualiga Road, has restored its regular operating hours effective Monday, Novem...
PHILIPSBURG:--- Alongside the organizational and legislative reforms underway at IVSA, the Inspectorate is investing in the systems and services needed to advance the reform process. IVSA is working with Altus Communication and Website Design to impr...
Dear Editor,
We took note from the press that the Fixed Committee on Kingdom Relations of the Dutch House of Representatives will visit Bonaire on Thursday, 22 October 2026. However, the program, including planned activities and meetings with local of...
Dear Editor,
I request space in your publication to address what I consider a deeply troubling takeover of WIFOL union leadership. In my view, the circumstances raise serious questions about democratic procedures, membership eligibility, financial acc...
Dear Editor,
The making of Gods, from wo/man
Today—now, more than ever —with the political and technological distractions, the shifting truths on an earth within an incomprehensible universe, and a world with no inherent meaning except maybe the adulat...
La Collectivité de Saint-Martin informe les usagers, de la fermeture temporaire de la Délégation Attractivité, Économie et Emploi à compter du lundi 19 octobre 2026.
En raison de travaux dans ses locaux de Concordia, la Délégation Attractivité, Économ...
La Caisse Territoriale des Œuvres Scolaires organise un Accueil Collectif de Mineurs Sans hébergement, durant les vacances de la Toussaint, pour les enfants de 3 à 12 ans, du 19 au 29 octobre 2026.
Ces accueils se tiendront dans la limite des places d...
La Collectivité de Saint-Martin informe les propriétaires fonciers que des investigations environnementales sont programmées du 15 au 21 octobre 2026, dans le cadre de la révision partielle du Plan d’Occupation des Sols (POS) de Saint-Martin. Cette m...
