PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten (Monday, May 20, 2013) Allow me to thank the media and all for coming to this extra-ordinary press briefing. While most things can be left to the regular Council of Minister’s Press Briefing, and as much as I will stick to the rules of the confidentiality of what is handled in the Council of Ministers meetings, I believe that these are extra-ordinary times and the people deserve to hear from me as Prime Minister, especially when we have seen what we have seen during the last couple of days with the Prime Minister of this Country being attacked as not upholding the Constitution of St. Maarten.

GREAT BAY, St. Maarten (Monday, May 20,2013)-The St. Maarten Nature Foundation has continued to work with local fishermen in battling the Lionfish Invasion. Fisherman Stanley Hosford (and daughter Sabrina) are pictured here with a large lionfish specimen caught using Fish Pots donated by the Nature Foundation.

GREAT BAY, St. Maarten ( Monday, May 20, 2013)- The good news of the arrival of the second stage and the main pump of the first Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant was reason for Minister Cornelius De Weever, responsible for production and distribution of water to visit, the Yellow Building at the Harbor Cargo where the Point Blanche water plant will be housed.