Francio Guadeloupe delivering his inaugural lecture at the University of Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM--Anthropologist Francio Guadeloupe delivered a wide-ranging inaugural lecture at the University of Amsterdam on Thursday, calling for a fundamental rethinking of how scholars study relations between the European Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean.

An artist's impression of the redesigned facility.

PHILIPSBURG--The long-delayed Soualiga Marketplace reconstruction project has been redesigned with expanded features and will now cost approximately Cg. 2.851 million, more than double the original contract sum of Cg. 1.236 million, according to TEATT Minister Grisha Heyliger-Marten.

 By Jacqueline Hooftman

PHILIPSBURG--The judge tasked with determining whether former Member of Parliament Rolando Brison received dollar transfers as payment for cryptocurrency – or whether the funds were direct payments intended to bribe him – admitted on Monday that he is not an expert on cryptocurrency. “You know much more about this matter than I do,” the judge told Brison during the hearing.

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.”