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Minister of Labor reacts to WIFOL statements

Minister of Labor reacts to WIFOL statements

Great Bay, St. Maarten - Due to the ongoing labor dispute regarding the former Pelican Resort workers, President of the Chamber of Labor Unions, Theophilus Thompson stated that he will be making an official complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) against the government of St. Maarten for violating certain ILO Conventions. Read more...
St. Maarten Cable TV's Digital Launch Schedule

St. Maarten Cable TV's Digital Launch Schedule

PHILIPSBURG - St. Maarten Cable TV reminds its subscribers that effective February 1, 2012, everyone is required to switch to a Motorola digital box to continue receiving service. Read more...
Police chief hands out first new police badge

Police chief hands out first new police badge

PHILIPSBURG - On Friday January 27th the Chief Commissioner of Police Peter de Witte handed out the first new official police badge. Read more...
  • Minister of Labor reacts to WIFOL statements

    Minister of Labor reacts to WIFOL statements

  • St. Maarten Cable TV's Digital Launch Schedule

    St. Maarten Cable TV's Digital Launch Schedule

  • Police chief hands out first new police badge

    Police chief hands out first new police badge

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Sports highlight

  • Peter Holmberg seeks 3rd title in 2012 Budget Marine match racing cup title Kick off of 32nd Annual St. Maarten Heineken Regatta
    Simpson Bay, St. Maarten - Virgin Islands sailing legend Peter Holmberg-the only Caribbean sailor to win both an Olympic Medal and the America's Cup-will return to one of his favorite sailing venues next month to compete in the fourth running of the Budget Marine Match Racing Cup. The annual event, scheduled this year for February 28, will serve as the official kick-off to the 32nd edition of the world-renowned St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, which begins on March 2.
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  • Barca hold on to advance
    EUROPE - Barcelona scraped into the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey with a 4-3 aggregate win over Real Madrid despite letting a two-goal lead slip at Camp Nou.   Madrid had started by far the brighter of the two sides and should have been ahead within seconds as Gonzalo Higuain screwed his shot wide when clean through on Jose Manuel Pinto.
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  • Seventeenth Century History : 1650 – 1699

    1658 The first illustrated book for children published in Germany.

    1659 Anglo-Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle develops an air pump for creating vacuums, confirms Galilei’s view that bodies fall in a vacuum at the same rate, regardless of weight; discovers that sound does not travel in a vacuum.

    1660 Robert Hooke of London claims he invented and applied the hairspring to the balance wheel. However, the invention is widely credited to Christiaan Huygens and Abbé d’Hautefeuille who simultaneously developed the use of a hairspring with the balance wheel in 1674. Charles II crowned King of England.

    1661 Paris Opera Ballet founded. Irish-born scientist Robert Boyle publishes The Skeptical Chymist, rejecting both the classical elements of earth, air, fire, and water, and the medieval elements of salt, sulfur, and mercury proposed by Aristotle and Paracelsus. Boyle’s mechanical philosophy forms the basis of chemistry as a scientific discipline, leaving behind its roots in alchemy.

Inspirational thought of the day

  • Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. --Rumi

     

     

     

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Legal Interest

  • Dean of Bar Association says NBA visit was an honor
    PHILIPSBURG - The National Bar Association of the United states of America along with a Judicial Council comprising of some of the top Judges in the United States has a…
  • WIFOL launches new court case
    PHILIPSBURG - After many attempts made by the WIFOL to dialogue with Royal Resort (RR) and Simpson Bay Resort (SBRMC) and those attempts were rejected by the Management, Last week…