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Vehicle Tax Fees To Be Adjusted In 2026 Based On Weight, Personalised Plates

PHILIPSBURG--Motorists will be paying the same fees for their motor vehicle tax in 2025, however, government plans to adjust the fees for 2026, Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs announced on Wednesday.

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Gumbs Launches Finance Friday With Minister Of Finance This Week

Minister of Finance, Marinka Gumbs.

PHILIPSBURG--Starting this Friday, November 1, Minister of Finance, Marinka Gumbs will meet with members of the public at her office for direct Read more

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Minister Of Finance Warns Merchants To Stop Imposing Purchase Limit For Cards

Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs.

~Says offenders will be blacklisted~

PHILIPSBURG--Businesses in the country that continue to impose a purchase limit on consumers who use their debit or credit cards for payments, can be blacklisted, have their machines taken away and not receive a machine from any bank in the country.

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Min. Fin. Says Civil Servants, Subsidized Schools To Get Cola At Same Time In 25

Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs.

PHILIPSBURG--There will be no distinction between civil servants and subsidized schools in terms of payment of Cost of Living Adjustment, (COLA), next year, Minister of Finance, Read more

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Finance Min. Presents Amended Ennia Agreement, Country To Save Naf. 37M

Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs in Parliament on Friday.

PHILIPSBURG--Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs presented Parliament with an addendum to the Ennia Outline Agreement on Friday and urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to approve the amended agreement, which she said will save the country approximately NAf Read more

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Gumbs Streamlines Process For Third-Party Invoicing

Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs

PHILIPSBURG--With effect from September 1, third-party vendors that have delivered goods and services to the government of St. Maarten will be required to submit their invoices centrally to the Ministry of Finance Accounting Department. The invoices can be forwarded electronically to the email addres Read more

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Gumbs Asks Cbcs To Correct Controversial Billboard In Town

The CBCS billboard near the Salt Pickers roundabout in Philipsburg.

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs has requested that Central Bank of Curaao and St. Maarten (CBCS) President Richard Doornbosch have what she referred to as the controversial billboard promoting the new Caribbean guilder, which is placed near the Salt Pi Read more

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Gumbs Announces 2.1% Aps Pension Increase

APS building

CAY HILL--Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs on Wednesday morning announced that APS pension will be indexed by 2.1% retroactively to January 1.

  She told reporters at the live Council of Ministers press briefing that the adjustment is a result of APS coverage ratio of 109% at the end of 2023.

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Gumbs Presents Usm With Books To Mark WatheyS 98Th Birthday

Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs presenting Claude: A Portrait of Power by Fabian Badejo to USM President Dr. Antonio Carmona Bez.

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs presented University of St Read more

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From left: Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs, TEATT Minister Grisha Heyliger-Marten, Chairperson of Parliament Sarah Wescot-Williams and Member of Parliament Viren Kotai.

 PHILIPSBURG--The decision on whether St Read more

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Gumbs To Pursue Better Solution For Ennia Policyholders In Sxm

Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs speaking to MPs.

PHILIPSBURG--Finance Minister Marinka Gumbs said on Thursday that she will be following the advice of Members of Parliament (MPs) Read more

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Minister Confirms Overtime Payment For Immigration Amidst Strike, Staffing Crisis

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Finance Marinka Gumbs has confirmed that the overtime payment for airport immigration workers, initially due in April, was included in the May 2024 salary payment. This delay in payment was a result of information regarding overtime not being submitted timely to the payroll administrators, which impacted payroll pr Read more

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Postal Services Acquires Cpost Intl.S Operations

PSS Director Marinka Gumbs (left) extended her gratitude to Jervhes Josephia, CEO of Cpost International N.V. (right) for his collaborative approach and vision in initiating their partnership.

PHILIPSBURG--In a strategic move aimed at bolstering its presence in the region, Postal Services of St. Maarten (PSS N.V.) has finalised the acquisition of Cpost International N.V.s (Cposts) operations, including PuntoMio, EuroMio, and MoneyGram services.

The integration of Cposts operations into PSS N.V Read more

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Pss Donates Food Voucher To New Start For Children

PHILIPSBURG--Postal Services St. Maarten (PSS) recently donated a food voucher worth NAf. 1,800 to the New Start for Children Foundation. The money was collected by members of the Supervisory Board, management and staff through an End-of-year Community Give-back Initiative.

  With the donation, the New Start Foundation for Children that operates a foster home with a maximum capacity of 20 children ranging from zero to 18 years of age can spend NAf. 1,800 on groceries at Prime Distributors.

  Interim Director Marinka Gumbs explained that the project is an annual initiative by the staff Read more

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SmdfS Incorporating Board Retires After 8 Years In Service

Former St. Maarten Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams (second left) watches as Marinka Gumbs (right) signs the notarial deed that established the St. Maarten Development Fund (SMDF) Read more

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Post Office Gets Enormous Amount Of Returned Mail

Marinka Gumbs

~ Re-evaluating operations, rebranding image ~

PHILIPSBURG--Postal Services St. Maarten (PSS) Interim Director Marinka Gumbs says that since assuming her curr Read more

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Lopsided flight

Dear Editor,

I have taken note on the press release by the Board of the UPP, pertaining to the indecisiveness of MP Wescot-Williams.

While my political position was made clear last October, this certainly does not stop me from pointing the lack of readiness with this present government with UPP as the majority.

Today, elections have come and gone, oaths taken and still no governing program detailing government's plan of action for the specific term Read more

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Rolling back the ‘Arm’s-length’ Policy: Govt & its companies in the power play

Dear Editor,

Once upon a time, in the last century, what we know today as "government-owned companies" were departments of the government administration. Who remembers when Landsradio was a federal government department, run effectively from Willemstad, Curacao? Or, when GEBE was similarly a public utility company that could not function without directives from the then government of the Netherlands Antilles? Or when the Post Office and even the Princess Juliana International Airport was arms of government?

That seems like an eternity ago and thus to many, probably completely forgotten Read more

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