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PHILIPSBURG:--- On Saturday, August 12, 2023, fifteen (15) financing recipients departed St.Maarten for the United States to pursue their studies.

Thirteen (13) students will be pursuing their studies in Tallahassee Florida. Tallahassee and St.Maarten have a sister city agreement which was initiated by the late Arthur Lugisse.

Most of the students, eight (8) will be studying at the Tallahassee Community College TCC, four (4) at the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, and one (1) at Florida State University.

The Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, Drs Read more

MAHO:--- (DMF) DOW MUSICAL FOUNDATION and EBONY STEEL ORCHESTRA 25th year annual concert celebration took place on Monday night December 26th, 2016 at Maho Royale Ballroom.
The Tallahasse-St. Maarten Foundation Inc. (TLH-SXMF) presented an award to Prime Minister William Marlin under the banner of: POLITICIAN OF THE YEAR 2016.
“The house was packed to capacity at the annual Steel Pan Concert and extravaganza celebrating the DOW MUSICAL FOUNDATION and EBONY STEEL ORCHESTRA 25th concert anniversary,” according to TLH-SXMF Executive Director Arthur Lugisse.
Lugisse continues: “Current Prime Minister of Sint Maarten William Marlin was first sworn in on November 19, 2015 and after serving one year he was again recently sworn in on December 20, 2016 as Prime Minister in the Red, White and Blue coalition government comprising of the Democratic Party, the National Alliance and the United St Read more

The rate of change in the world today conceivably has never been faster. Many of the old systems applied to growth and development are rapidly changing into new forms too different to be fully understood.
The old pattern of a few countries mining the rest of the world for raw materials and reseeding just enough with goods and services to successfully repeat the cycle has been replaced by something else. Global growth and development are no longer almost solely reliant upon the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and one or two other global financial institutions; it now includes significant support from developing countries that once were the countries being mined as a raw material resource.
China is perhaps the indisputable leader of this new growth and development group Read more

St.Maarten Adopting Security And Safety Options By Way Of High State Of The Art Technology To Make St.Maarten Safe.

PHILIPSBURG:--- The Department of Justice and the Point Blanche Director, Mr. Edward Rohan have been successfully working on a 14 month success story with the Probation Department head Cynthia Filomon and FENNIX306.

The story is based on the first successful Electronic Monitoring Program in our Region, given the expenses the aforementioned department faces with each inmate costing the state when incarcerated USD $225.00 per day and with the use of the FennixShackle (Ankle Bracelet) at a cost of USD $25.00 per day per inmate the Sint Maarten Government is now saving on average USD $6,750.00 per inmate monthly.

In the past Sint Maarten tried to implement the program with two other providers, but they both failed.

The company who is now providing the successful technological solution is Fennix Global Technologies with their exclusive monitorINMATES brand.

Fennix Global Technologies is an American based company established in Panama Read more

PHILIPSBURG:---  Under the umbrella of the Tallahassee-St. Maarten Foundation Inc. (TLH-SXMF) and in conjunction with Photographer Hassan Kareem, Emmy Award winning international journalist and former CNN and Al Jazeera television broadcaster Tony Harris, arrived on the island over the weekend to explore marketing the destination to Celebrities among other opportunities in the area of tourism and hospitality development.

Tony Harris worked with CNN for six-years out of their headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia where for three years he also hosted his own program, “CNN Newsroom.” Harris also served as New York based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and as a prime time correspondent and host for the FOX Broadcasting news magazine, Front Page.

Through his company Merge Media, a New York based marketing/public relations consultancy, Harris, a self-described “global citizen”, brings more than 30 years of storytelling and relationships as a media professional to the tourism space Read more

Former Sundial Student Evers Currently attending Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College Achieves a 3.52 GPA and makes the Dean’s List.

>PHILIPSBURG:--- 22-year old former Sundial School student Shahyra Evers, who is currently enrolled in Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, has applied for Study Financing in order to continue with her studies at the aforementioned educational institution where she has a grade point average (GPA) of 3.52.

Shahyra applied last year for study financing and is awaiting an answer, but in the meantime left the country on January 2nd to continue with her studies.

Arthur Lugisse, Director of the Tallahassee-St Read more