PHILIPSBURG – Following a week of protests by various labor unions and civil servants on St. Maarten, the correctional...

THE HAGUE – Minister Raymond Knops of the Interior and Kingdom Relations is ‘extremely worried about the situation within...

PHILIPSBURG – Despite the fact that the Kingdom is under the supervision of the Committee of Ministers of the...

PHILIPSBURG – “The situation is bad. Truly dramatic. There’s no rehabilitation at all. Human rights are violated on a...

KRALENDIJK – The legal code for Criminal Justice BES has had statutes for detention under hospital orders (tbs) since...

PHILIPSBURG – A juvenile delinquent who received a 12 month jail sentence from the court in Sint Maarten, gets...

PHILIPSBURG – Sint Maarten’s minister of Justice, Cornelius de Weever has reached an agreement with the Dutch minister for...

HILVERSUM – “The Netherlands keeps St. Maarten in a vicious cycle of nonstructural assistance but continuous penalization.” This says...

HILVERSUM – According to VVD-Kamerlid André Bosman, his party which is the governing party in the Netherlands, has ordered...

PHILIPSBURG – It is not difficult to escape from or start a riot in Sint Maarten’s Pointe Blanche prison....

PHILIPSBURG – The police found a firearm, countless phones and a selfmade weapon last week in the Point Blanche...