Soualiga News Today

March 02, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - Preparations are well underway for the 9th edition of the SXM DOET weekend of events and the team of project coordinators are encouraging the public to sign up for a project and volunteer. SXM DOET, one of the largest volun...

March 02, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - On Tuesday February 28, the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA), Omar Ottley met with the President of Water Sanitation and Youth Mr. Raphael Sanchez, Special Representative of GEBE Troy Washington...

March 01, 2023

PORT ST. MAARTEN – Personnel from Port St. Maarten Group (PSG) and the national emergency services, successfully completed a live maritime security drill on Thursday, February 23 between 9:00 am and 12:00pm at the cargo section of the Dr. A.C. Wathey C...

March 01, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Christophe Emmanuel on Wednesday said it is reprehensible how police officers, immigrations officers, firemen and women, teachers, nurses and others continues to be placed on the back b...

March 01, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) – Via a letter penned by Member of Parliament Melissa Gumbs, the Party for Progress faction in Parliament submitted a draft LB-HAM (national decree containing general measures) to Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs on Thursday, 2...

March 01, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (SIMPSON BAY-AIRPORT) – Following an acceptance handing over in Austria from March 6 through 9, 2023, the Airport’s Rescue and Firefighters (R&FF) will acquire two (2) new fire trucks for emergency response at the aerodrome of the Princess...

February 28, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBUGR) – The Police Force of Sint Maarten (KPSM) detectives, Traffic Department, and the Internal Affairs Bureau are conducting an investigation into an incident on Monday, February 27, around 7:30pm. Police Central dispatch receive...

February 28, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) – Member of Parliament (MP)Sarah Wescot for more than a year, has been addressing the issue of e-cigarettes and “vaping” amongst the school going population on St. Maarten, with primarily the Inspectorate of the Ministry of H...

February 28, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - On Saturday February 25th, the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA), Omar Ottley in collaboration with the Community Development Family Humanitarian Affairs (CDFHA) held another successful family fu...

February 27, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - Three young men are in police custody following an armed robbery of a jewelry store on Front Street that occurred around midday Monday, the police confirmed in a statement on Monday evening.                                 ...

February 27, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - Again, another Front Street store jewelry robbery.  However, it did not go the way as the robbers thought, and the members of the Sint Maarten Police Force (KPSM) arrested three individuals suspected to being involved in th...

February 27, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (PHILIPSBURG) - The General Audit Chamber (GAC) of St. Maarten presented its 2022 Annual Report to the Governor and Parliament on February 27th, 2023, fulfilling its obligation to submit the report well ahead of the required deadline (befo...

February 26, 2023

SINT MAARTEN (SIMPSON BAY-AIRPORT) – On Sunday, February 26, 2023, confirmed reports from the PJIAE Airport Operations Tower declared that KLM Airbus Flight 729, with aircraft type (A-330-203), encountered a nose wheel steering system malfunction upon ...