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NRPB: Five new automated weather stations strengthen local weather monitoring

Government

GREAT BAY-- The National Recovery Program Bureau (NRPB) on Thursday announced that five new automated weather stations, supported by additional stand-alone rainfall gauges, have been installed and are expanding the Meteorological Department of St. Maarten’s ability to collect local weather data from different locations across the country.

Tribune Editorial Staff
September 3, 2026
Dutch Kingdom

Youth crime prevention, cross-border security high on agenda at Kingdom Justice talks

WILLEMSTAD--Preventing youth crime before young people reach the criminal justice system emerged as one of the major priorities of the Judicial Four-Party Consultation, JVO, in Curaçao, where the four countries of the Kingdom agreed that intervention must begin well before a case reaches prosecutors.
Economy

Your Bank savings will have new protection in St. Maarten from September 28

GREAT BAY/WILLEMSTAD--For the first time under the new Deposit Guarantee Scheme, people who keep money at covered banks and credit unions in St. Maarten will have a legally established level of protection if their financial institution can no longer repay depositors.
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Dutch Kingdom
Netherlands and France push for European AI, Tech Sovereignty
THE HAGUE--The Netherlands and France are calling for a stronger European technology industry built around homegrown artificial intelligence, semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and other critical technologies, arguing that Europe must reduce its dependence on American and Chinese suppliers and develop the capacity to compete on its own terms.
Tribune Editorial Staff
September 3, 2026
Culture
Nearly 60 participants join Musical Theatre fundraiser for FREEGAN Foundation
GREAT BAY--Nearly 60 people have registered for a special series of musical theatre workshops taking place in the Netherlands this September to raise funds for FREEGAN foundation on Sint Maarten.
Tribune Editorial Staff
September 3, 2026
Culture
St. Maarten’s Epic Center Foundation Awarded Dutch funding
GREAT BAY--Epic Center Foundation has secured funding from the Dutch Foundation for Literature for the translation and publication of the children’s novel Steve Takes a Stand by St. Maarten author Ralph Cantave, as well as a separate initiative providing reading and writing workshops for primary school pupils on St. Maarten.
Tribune Editorial Staff
September 3, 2026
Government
St. Maarten government unveils SXM Crisis Care Digital Platform
GREAT BAY--The Division of Labor Affairs & Social Services, under the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labor (VSA), today announced the upcoming stakeholder engagement session for SXM Crisis Care, a groundbreaking digital initiative designed to unify how crisis and social services are coordinated and delivered across the island.
Tribune Editorial Staff
September 3, 2026
Dutch Kingdom
D66 questions whether study debt Is keeping Caribbean graduates in Netherlands
THE HAGUE--D66 has questioned whether enough is being done to encourage Caribbean students who study in the Netherlands to return home, arguing that the Dutch government has not yet fully addressed the role study debt can play in the continuing brain drain from the islands.
Tribune Editorial Staff
September 3, 2026
Dutch Kingdom
More EU money within reach, but can Caribbean islands access it?
THE HAGUE--Caribbean islands within the Kingdom could gain access to substantially more European funding in the years ahead, but a central concern emerged during a Dutch parliamentary debate on Tuesday: whether the islands have enough administrative capacity to turn those opportunities into actual projects.
Tribune Editorial Staff
September 3, 2026
Opinion
Why this ridiculous obsession with prisoners?
September 2, 2026
Dividend Tax in St. Maarten: The People Deserve the Truth, Not Political Theater
September 1, 2026
Before Blaming the People, Fix the Waste System
September 1, 2026
Weekend Read

Above the traffic: An exclusive look Inside the Swift Rails proposal submitted to Govt

August 29, 2026

Roseburg’s price motion asks the simplest question: did the consumer actually save?

August 29, 2026

A consequential motion: Why MP Darryl York wants St. Maarten to treat creativity as an Economy

August 29, 2026

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