Viability

Editorial taken from The Daily Herald, published July 6th, 2009   News that the Executive Council has approved the Emergency Marketing Fund totalling more than four million guilders (US $2.3 million) diverted from the Social Economic Initiative (SEI) comes none too soon. After all, the initiative to make extra means available

AAwful

Editorial taken from TODAY, published December 1st, 2009   Ouch. The island government is spending precious dollars on a re-branding campaign with lots of double A’s in the slogans and now National Geographic has come down on the island like a ton of bricks to destroy these noble marketing efforts.   This

Tourism Figures

Editorial taken from TODAY, published April 9th, 2010   The projection Tourism Commissioner Frans Richardson presented in the Island Council on March 29th seems to be more wishful thinking than anything else.   The Commissioner said that tourism would grow between 3 and 5 percent this year, but the Hospitality
Opinion Piece: Investing In St. Maarten

Opinion Piece: Investing In St. Maarten

I would like to ask why you are here, but if you are on this webpage reading this opinion piece, you are interested in investing in St. Maarten. As with any investment anywhere else in the world, there are a number of elements you have to look at when assessing