POND ISLAND-- The Receiver’s Office on Soualiga Road is currently closed after a break-in in which an unknown amount of money was stolen, according to the Police Force of Sint Maarten KPSM, which has launched an investigation into the incident.

Alex Dijkhoffz

By Jacqueline Hooftman

PHILIPSBURG--According to the prosecutor, former Member of Parliament and leader of the United People’s (UP) party, Rolando Brison, does not recognise the seriousness of the allegations against him, which the prosecution says “strike at the core of St. Maarten’s democratic system.”

Justice Minister Nathalie Tackling and Prison Director Steven Carty pose with the sworn in correctional officers.

  PHILIPSBURG--A group of local correctional officers and fourteen officers from Suriname were officially sworn in on Friday, in a move the Ministry of Justice says will help strengthen operational capacity at Point Blanche Prison.

The Most Worthy Performance of the 2026 St. Maarten Heineken Regatta went to local boat Ryan Hope Ross’s J 105 “More Zessin ’’.

PHILIPSBURG--Bernard Stroud (55), who was convicted on July 7, 2022, and sentenced to 17 years in prison for sexual offences involving four underage girls, insisted on Wednesday during his appeal hearing that he is innocent. Stating that he never raped or harmed a child, he begged the judges to free him from what he called “a never-ending nightmare.”