Local News

September 10, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - NV GEBE hereby informs its customers and the general public that the company will be carrying out an important System Upgrade as part of its ongoing efforts to improve internal operations and the overall customer experience. The upgrade will require...

September 10, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - The Department of Youth, within the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, continues to advance the development and implementation of the Early Childhood Development Curriculum Guide for Sint Maarten. The ECD consultants were on the island...

September 10, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - Following the interview with Chairlady Wescot-Williams, Member of Parliament (MP) Omar Ottley finds it very disheartening to hear the same information that he has been screaming for the past two years is what is being highlighted today, the MP said i...

September 10, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - A child’s journey into reading begins long before they can read their first word. Listening to a story, looking at pictures, singing songs, and talking about a book help young children develop language, imagination, communication skills, and a founda...

September 10, 2026

SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY) - On Wednesday, September 9, 2026, shortly before 5:00 PM, the Police Force of Sint Maarten (KPSM) received several calls of an armed robbery at a Chinese supermarket located on Jordan Road in the Cupe-coy area. According to preliminary information, tw...

September 10, 2026

Young people in St Maarten will get a chance to participate in a new EGO pilot. PHILIPSBURG--Young people in St Maarten will get a chance to participate in a new pilot combining artificial intelligence (AI), digital literacy, robotics, filmmaking, creative technology and socia...

September 10, 2026

GREAT BAY--NV GEBE will close all of its offices to the public at 12:00 noon on Thursday, September 10, as the utility company begins an important system upgrade aimed at improving its internal operations and overall customer experience. Offices will reopen Friday, September 1...

September 10, 2026

Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication (TEATT), the Honorable Grisha Heyliger-Marten, has welcomed the arrival of three Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) donated to the Government of Sint Maarten by the Government of Curaçao, under the leadership...

September 10, 2026

Suicide remains a major public-health challenge, claiming more than 720,000 lives worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).   Thursday, September 10, 2026, marks World Suicide Prevention Day. The Collective Prevention Service (CPS), an executi...

September 10, 2026

Stichting Biblionef Netherlands, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, the Library of Sint Maarten, the Help Our Children Foundation, and the University of St. Martin (USM), is pleased to announce the Third Reading...

September 10, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Council of Advice raised a series of concerns over St. Maarten’s draft 2027 national budget and recommended that it not be forwarded to Parliament until government had taken those concerns into account, but the government subsequently responded point by point, s...

September 10, 2026

NAPB President Marcus Pantophlet. PHILIPSBURG--NAPB St Maarten wants the parliamentary debate on the 2027 National Budget to provide clear details on funding for outstanding obligations to justice workers and address serious staffing shortages throughout the justice system. Fo...

September 09, 2026

MARIGOT, SAINT-MARTIN--Business owners in Saint-Martin are being urged to seek assistance at the first signs of financial difficulty, after figures presented during a CCISM conference showed that all 33 collective insolvency proceedings opened on the territory last year ultima...