French Quarter: --- A second court case has been filed by the Collectivity of St. Martin against SMN News. A bailiff delivered a summons to us on Monday afternoon at 4pm that indicated the reporter of this news website has to appear in courts on Tuesday October 27 in Basseterre. The second court case relates to an article SMN News published on October 9 regarding the use of government vehicles. Due to the untimely notice our lawyers requested that the case be postponed which was granted. The hearing is scheduled for November 10. No details on this second court case will be released until the hearing on November 10.
As said before the COM is doing all they can legally to shut this website down, since we are the only ones who seek to inform the community truthfully. While these attacks are made against SMN News, we are sure these measures would affect press freedom in the future and as such, we urge you to pay keen attention to the developments in these cases.
SMN News wants to thank the media houses on the Dutch side of the island that has highlighted the first case. SMN News would surely update you when we have more information.
We also apologize to our readers for not being able to cover all events and activities these last days as we are busy working on these court cases. As soon as this matter is under control, we would be back to normal.
