### Monday, June 2, 2007 ###
Five-year-old child beaten
within inches of her life
~ Surgeon concerned about increased violence ~
PHILIPSBURG--The grandmother of a five-year-old girl is distraught and wants justice for what she says was the brutal abuse of her granddaughter by her stepfather last week Thursday that landed the child in St. Maarten Medical Center and later in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Guadeloupe.
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Dick receives additional
financing for Safety Plan
PHILIPSBURG--Antillean Justice Minister David Dick received some financing for the Netherlands Antilles Safety Plan during his visit to The Hague last week. However, Dick does not want to give details about amounts received.
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Coast Guard law taken off
agenda until further notice
THE HAGUE--The lobbying by a delegation of the Netherlands Antilles Parliament to remove the Kingdom law on Coast Guard from the agenda of the July 4 meeting of the Dutch Second Chamber has been successful. The debate on the law has been postponed until further notice.
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UPP wins first round
in Territorial Election
MARIGOT--Louis-Constant Fleming‘s party Union Pour le Progrès (UPP) drew first blood in the first round of voting to decide the Collectivité’s new Territorial Council yesterday by collecting 2,829 votes, 592 more than second-place Rassemblement, Responsabilité, Réussite (RRR) headed by Alain Richardson with 2,237 votes.
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Gendarmerie makes headway
in cracking cycle of car thefts
MARIGOT--The Gendarmerie confirmed over the weekend it had made significant breakthroughs in disrupting the spate of car thefts during the past month with the announcement of three arrests. It expects more arrests to be made shortly.
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Accused persons file
complaint of slander
PHILIPSBURG--At least two people, one of whom is said to be an Immigration Officer, have filed an official complaint of slander against the writer(s) of a widely distributed e-mail that alleges, amongst other things, that Immigration Officer L.H. accepted bribes for coordinating illegal entries at the Princess Juliana International Airport.
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Several teachers awarded at public
schools’ end of year programme
COLE BAY--Teachers of all the local public schools were gathered Friday morning, June 29, at the Port de Plaisance La Terrasse restaurant for the public schools’ end of year programme.
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