The Peoples Tribune

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--Nearly a decade after Hurricane Irma severely damaged the St. Maarten Library, construction of a new facility officially got underway Tuesday with a groundbreaking ceremony in Philipsburg. The reconstruction is being carried out by Steel Structures Trinidad and...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs formally presented the 2027 national budget to Parliament on Tuesday within the timeframe required by law, but cautioned against treating the timely submission as an accomplishment, saying government’s real test will be whether...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--St. Maarten marine biologist and natural resource manager Tadzio Bervoets recently led three days of hands-on training in Barbados aimed at strengthening sustainable fisheries management and marine spatial planning across the region. The training was held from Septe...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY/THE HAGUE--Children and young people in St. Maarten and across the Dutch Caribbean are expected to benefit from a new four-year effort to make theater and cultural education more accessible throughout the Kingdom of the Netherlands. More than 80 organizations from th...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Ministry of Justice plans to create temporary detention space for up to 16 low-risk detainees at the Foreign Detention Center in Simpson Bay, as St. Maarten continues to deal with capacity constraints while the new Point Blanche Prison is under construction...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--St. Maarten must continue strengthening its institutions, modernizing public administration and building a professional government capable of meeting the responsibilities of an autonomous country, His Excellency Governor Ajamu Baly said Tuesday at the opening of the...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs is scheduled to formally submit the draft 2027 National Budget to Parliament on Tuesday, September 8, at 2:00pm, meeting the legal deadline for submission and moving St. Maarten closer to what government has described as a historic...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--The St. Maarten/St. Martin Annual Regional Tradeshow, SMART, will return from June 14 to 18, 2027, with registration now officially open and organizers again using an early-booking system intended to give participating businesses first choice of space and lower regi...

September 08, 2026

In the first two installments of The People’s Tribune’s Prostate Cancer Awareness Series, we looked at the possible warning signs of prostate cancer and explained what a PSA blood test can, and cannot, tell you. The next question is particularly important for our community: Ar...

September 08, 2026

ORANJESTAD--Aruba has launched the first phase of a national initiative aimed at changing how the island approaches education, job skills and lifelong learning, with artificial intelligence, digital literacy, teacher development and community-based learning among its early pri...

September 08, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Caribbean countries within the Kingdom are not among the five most important transit countries for cocaine destined for the Netherlands, according to research on international drug flows presented during the Judicial Four-Country Consultation, JVO, held in...

September 07, 2026

GREAT BAY--The Police Force of St. Maarten, KPSM, through its Traffic Department, carried out a road cleaning operation on Sucker Garden Road on Saturday, September 5, removing a large amount of hardened concrete that had built up on the roadway over several weeks and months....

September 07, 2026

GREAT BAY--Parliament of St. Maarten has ratified a regional outcome statement committing participating Caribbean legislatures to concrete action on artificial intelligence, including AI readiness assessments, ethical governance, data privacy, cybersecurity, legislation,...