The Peoples Tribune

September 10, 2026

GREAT BAY--St. Maarten’s draft 2027 budget shifts millions of guilders across key public services, with more money directed to tourism promotion and road maintenance, while allocations for garbage collection and VSA decline and the Justice budget remains virtually unchanged de...

September 10, 2026

GREAT BAY--Member of Parliament Omar Ottley is questioning whether the 2027 national budget contains any meaningful relief related to GEBE, arguing that submitting the budget on time will mean little if households and businesses continue carrying high electricity costs without...

September 10, 2026

GREAT BAY--St. Maarten’s draft 2027 budget projects approximately Cg 670 million in income against Cg 662 million in expenditure, producing a positive budget result of about Cg 8 million, but the government’s own liquidity forecast shows that freely available cash could fall t...

September 10, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Windward Islands Bank has rescheduled its “Walking into the Future, Building Progress” Walk-a-Thon for Sunday, September 27, with participants set to gather at the WIB Bush Road Digital Branch for an early morning community walk focused on health, wellness and t...

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

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 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...

September 09, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten (CBCS) will receive international technical support to better understand how stronger storms, droughts, rising temperatures and other effects of climate change could impact the economies, banks and wider financial sys...

September 09, 2026

𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦’𝘴 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳,...

September 09, 2026

GREAT BAY--Royal Caribbean’s new Hero of the Seas is scheduled to make its first call on St. Maarten on August 24, 2027 (barring a change), placing the destination among the early Caribbean ports to welcome the fourth ship in the cruise line’s Icon Class fleet. The St. Maarten...

September 09, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Meteorological Department of St. Maarten (MDS) says its expanded network of automatic weather stations is giving forecasters a more detailed, real-time picture of conditions across the island, strengthening weather forecasting, early warnings, disaster preparedn...

September 09, 2026

GREAT BAY--Five recruits from the St. Maarten Police Force are among 23 new law enforcement recruits who have successfully completed the four-week “Stronger Together” introductory period and will now begin a two-year professional training program. The class consists of 13...

September 09, 2026

GREAT BAY--With justice workers still awaiting the completion of placement procedures, retroactive payments and other longstanding obligations, the board of NAPB St. Maarten is looking to the draft 2027 National Budget for concrete funding, timelines and measures to stren...