GREAT BAY--Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure Patrice Gumbs appeared in Parliament on Friday to provide an update on cemetery capacity development...

GREAT BAY--The Government of St. Maarten has announced new maximum consumer prices for fuel, effective Saturday, March 22, 2026, at 6:00 a.m., following an increase in international market prices for both ULG gasoline and gasoil diesel.

GREAT BAY--Minister of VROMI Patrice Gumbs re-iterated to Parliament on Friday that every company that submitted a bid for St. Maarten’s new garbage collection contracts got the tender process wrong, maintaining that the collapse of the bidding exercise was due to failures by the bidders and not by government.

GREAT BAY--Member of Parliament Darryl York sharply criticized Minister of VROMI Patrice Gumbs in Parliament on Friday, calling the minister’s explanation for the lack of emergency intervention on Sucker Garden Road “plain-out ignorance,” while MP Ardwell Irion dismissed Gumbs’ overall response as “petty” during a tense discussion sparked by the recent accident involving police officers on the badly damaged roadway.

GREAT BAY--NOW (Nation Opportunity Wealth), Member of Parliament (MP) Lyndon Lewis is urgently calling on the Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (VROMI), Patrice Gumbs to take immediate and decisive action to address the worsening state of road infrastructure across Sint Maarten, following a deeply concerning incident highlighted by the police union, NAPB Sint Maarten.