The Coast Guard has 16 newly graduated “Able Seamen” with St. Eustatius receiving their first programme graduate. The achievement came as 16 recruits from Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten including participants from Saba and St. Eustatius, completed more than a year of intensive training and professional development under the 2025 JBK programme.

Rider of a Kawasaki Z650, plate MF 1397, died on September 4, following a motorcycle accident on Link 1.

BELAIR--A motorcyclist has died following a serious single-vehicle accident on Octavius L. Richardson Road also known as Link 1 on Friday morning. The accident occurred at about 10:55am and involved a Kawasaki Z650 motorcycle bearing licence plate MF 1397.

The 23 kilogrammes of cocaine destined to Rotterdam, but not before it was intercepted in St. Maarten by the local authorities. This led to two suspects being arrested and potentially facing serious prison time.

PHILIPSBURG --Dutch prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to 3.5 years for two Rotterdam men accused of using their positions at a port terminal to retrieve a shipment of cocaine that had first been intercepted by St. Maarten Customs earlier this year.

The cover of the book "Steve Takes a Stand".

PHILIPSBURG--Twelve literary projects across St. Maarten Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao will receive a total of 347,063 euros in funding through the Caribe Literature Scheme of the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

Psychogeriatric Daycare client Violet Mathew and Unit Leader Mildred Lake cutting the ribbon at the opening of the new dementia daycare and training facility at the White and Yellow Cross Care Foundation (WYCCF).