The Peoples Tribune

September 04, 2026

GREAT BAY--Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs has welcomed the upcoming implementation of the Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten’s Deposit Guarantee Scheme, describing it as a major step toward strengthening confidence in the financial sector and providing greater pro...

September 04, 2026

THE HAGUE--Thousands of homophobic messages have been posted beneath social media updates from Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten, with an investigation finding that roughly one in every 20 replies to his official X account contained anti-gay abuse. And that's just via X (formerl...

September 04, 2026

GREAT BAY-- “I refuse to meet another child too late.” Drawing on what she sees firsthand in the field as an attorney, Member of Parliament Sjamira Roseburg on Friday advised the Ministries of ECYS, Justice and VSA to unite behind an expanded CRT program, to reach the nex...

September 04, 2026

GREAT BAY/ROTTERDAM--A cocaine discovery by Customs officers in St. Maarten has led to the prosecution of two Rotterdam men accused of using their positions at a port terminal to help import and retrieve 23 kilograms of cocaine. The Dutch Public Prosecution Service is seeking...

September 04, 2026

GREAT BAY-- The National Recovery Program Bureau (NRPB) on Thursday announced that five new automated weather stations, supported by additional stand-alone rainfall gauges, have been installed and are expanding the Meteorological Department of St. Maarten’s ability to collect...

September 04, 2026

WILLEMSTAD--Preventing youth crime before young people reach the criminal justice system emerged as one of the major priorities of the Judicial Four-Party Consultation, JVO, in Curaçao, where the four countries of the Kingdom agreed that intervention must begin well before a c...

September 04, 2026

GREAT BAY/WILLEMSTAD--For the first time under the new Deposit Guarantee Scheme, people who keep money at covered banks and credit unions in St. Maarten will have a legally established level of protection if their financial institution can no longer repay depositors. The...

September 03, 2026

THE HAGUE--The Netherlands and France are calling for a stronger European technology industry built around homegrown artificial intelligence, semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and other critical technologies, arguing that Europe must reduce its dependence on American a...

September 03, 2026

GREAT BAY--Nearly 60 people have registered for a special series of musical theatre workshops taking place in the Netherlands this September to raise funds for FREEGAN foundation on Sint Maarten. A group of experienced musical theatre performers, teachers and coaches is donati...

September 03, 2026

GREAT BAY--Epic Center Foundation has secured funding from the Dutch Foundation for Literature for the translation and publication of the children’s novel Steve Takes a Stand by St. Maarten author Ralph Cantave, as well as a separate initiative providing reading and writi...

September 03, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Division of Labor Affairs & Social Services, under the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labor (VSA), today announced the upcoming stakeholder engagement session for SXM Crisis Care, a groundbreaking digital initiative designed to unif...

September 03, 2026

THE HAGUE--D66 has questioned whether enough is being done to encourage Caribbean students who study in the Netherlands to return home, arguing that the Dutch government has not yet fully addressed the role study debt can play in the continuing brain drain from the islands. Du...

September 03, 2026

THE HAGUE--Caribbean islands within the Kingdom could gain access to substantially more European funding in the years ahead, but a central concern emerged during a Dutch parliamentary debate on Tuesday: whether the islands have enough administrative capacity to turn those oppo...