### Tuesday August 26, 2008 ###
‘Imported inflation’ hits island,
community needs to cut cost now
PHILIPSBURG--Residents and businesses need to tighten their belts and adhere to cost-cutting measures as the island battles “imported inflation” brought on by skyrocketing prices on the world market. St. Maarten, an island that imports everything it uses, is very vulnerable to economic whirlwinds.
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Unarmed off-duty officer
runs down purse snatcher
PHILIPSBURG--An unarmed and off-duty police inspector ran down a purse-snatcher in Philipsburg Monday, catching the 30-year-old Dominicano after the latter had run into a car in Pointe Blanche and fallen to the ground, police spokesman Chief Inspector Johan “Janchi” Leonard reported.
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Winair denied lease extension,
Duncan suspends negotiations
AIRPORT--The Executive Council will not extend the long lease for land Windward Islands Airways Winair has been using for its operations.
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Police investigating 5th violent
death on the island this year
~ Link between shooting and homicide established ~
PHILIPSBURG--Statements from French St. Martin witnesses in the past 48 hours have positively linked the death of a young man from bullet wounds Sunday to a shooting outside a Middle Region nightclub earlier that morning.
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St. Maarten again
at critical juncture
~ Says Sarah in address on “State of Affairs” ~
PHILIPSBURG--St. Maarten has again arrived at a critical juncture in constitutional negotiations and vigilance is required, Constitutional Affairs Commissioner Sarah Wescot-Williams said yesterday in an address on the “State of Affairs.”
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Gasoline prices dip by
20 cents per litre today
PHILIPSBURG--After weeks of hearing about falling gas prices on the world market, motorists in St. Maarten will finally experience the impact in their wallets today, Tuesday, when a government-approved NAf. 0.20 per litre price reduction for unleaded gasoline takes effect.
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Extra measures needed to prevent
Emilio Wilson Estate development
PHILIPSBURG--The Executive Council should prepare a resolution to establish an allocation plan for Emilio Wilson Estate. Otherwise, government will not be able to legally prevent future commercial development of the area, said Judge J. Drop.
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Prisoners being helped to
become entrepreneurs
PHILIPSBURG--About eighty Pointe Blanche House of Detention inmates have a one-in-eight shot at starting their own businesses when released, as a result of a revisionist programme that intends to turn ex-convicts into successful businessmen.
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Dutch support Antillean proposal
for humane treatment of prisoners
THE HAGUE--Two Dutch professors of Rotterdam’s Erasmus University want authorities in the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands to consider a more humane punishment for prisoners serving life-long sentences.
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