MARIGOT—A woman in her thirties was killed on the main RN7 in Bellevue Sunday night at around midnight following an accident between a scooter and a motorbike.

  The Pompiers (firefighters), who are trained as emergency responders, confirmed the woman who had been riding the scooter died at the scene despite attempts to resuscitate her. The other victim was the motorcycle rider, also in his thirties, who was transported to hospital in very serious condition.

PFP MP Raeyhon Peterson

PHILIPSBURG--Party for Progress (PFP) Member of Parliament (MP) Raeyhon Peterson reiterated a pending request to Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure VROMI Egbert Doran for insight into documents relating to the issuance of domain land in July 2020.

​​THE HAGUE—State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen of Kingdom Relations is open to the three Dutch Caribbean countries eliminating their (semi)public sector financial benefits reductions of 12.5 per cent (12.6 in Aruba).

  The cuts were established mid -2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a sign of solidarity toward the private sector and to lower government spending. It was also a condition for corona crisis-related liquidity support from the Netherlands.

PHILIPSBURG--The Parliament of St. Maarten will submit its report on the proposed Consensus Kingdom Law on the Caribbean Body for Reform and Development COHO to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament today, Friday.
A short synopsis of the handling of the COHO draft law in St. Maarten’s Parliament will be mentioned at the top of the report and all position papers will be added to the report, Chairperson of Parliament Grisha Heyliger-Marten said during a meeting of the Central Committee on Friday.

Boardwalk Boulevard

PHILIPSBURG--Although signs of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic crisis seem visible in the occupancy rates for April, St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association (SHTA) reminds that for use as an economic indicator, it is important to compare not just the occupancy rate, but also the room count to St. Maarten’s pre-Hurricane Irma timeframes.