### Friday May 16, 2008 ###
HIV/AIDS Steering Committee
convenes orientation meeting
PHILIPSBURG--Members of the Island Government HIV/AIDS Steering Committee held their first meeting in the Conference Room at the Government Administration Building on Wednesday to familiarise themselves with the objectives and the role of the HIV/AIDS Steering Committee in the fight against HIV/AIDS here.
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Toastmasters 10th District
Conference starts today
PHILIPSBURG--The Toastmasters tenth District 81P Conference gets underway at
Sonesta Maho Beach Resort today with what is expected to be a record number of Toastmasters from overseas participating.
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Island Council passes
Monuments Ordinance
ST. EUSTATIUS--An ordinance for the preservation of objects of historical and sentimental value was passed unanimously by Statia’s Island Council at a meeting on Thursday morning.
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Last-minute rush forces
new road tax deadline
MARIGOT--The Collectivité decided on Thursday to extend the deadline for payment of the French-side road tax by a further two weeks, in view of the large numbers of people paying at the last minute.
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St. Maarten considering use
of third party’s weather radar
PHILIPSBURG--The Executive Council is entertaining the possibility of making use of the weather radar of a third party instead of the services of the Meteorological Service of the Netherlands Antilles.
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Yves Kinard embarks
on historic sea voyage
MARIGOT--French naval architect and former president of Métimer Yves Kinard left St. Martin Thursday morning bound for Bermuda and the Azores in the first stage of a quest to become the first person since 1936 to cross the Atlantic in the smallest diesel-powered vessel.
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