Category: BROWSE BLOG
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Avoiding transplant shock with United Farmers of St Maarten
Today we had a great time as usual, Beverly and Oldine is on their Wednesday routine. Today they transplanted salad mix from the grow box into containers separately and placed them on the standing racks we use in the shaded areas for newly transplanted seedlings.. These ladies did a great job on germinating seeds during…
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ECO Learning with The Netherlands Red Cross Society & SG
It’s time for round 2 of ECO Learning. Registration begins once again for the next round of the ECO-Learning program. Focused on SGD #17 (building partnerships for goals) in collaboration with The Netherlands Red Cross Society, CDFHA and Spaceless Gardens will be hosted at ECO St Maarten Agricultural Research and Development Center. The first cohort…
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Cultural Xpression | Recovery and the Pandemic – Jan 2021
It’s been awhile since I got behind the pc to actually get Cutural Xpression back on track.. It’s challenging to not have a stable income, while the economical challenges become over whelming, not only for myself and family, but for many others who today may still are out of work.. I am truly grateful…
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Recovery, Development and the Pandemic on St Martin
By Dr Antonio Carmona Beaz Looking at 2020 in retrospect, the pandemic can be regarded as a great interruption to our daily lives, and long and short-term planning. Although not equitably, COVID-19 has affected the lives of most people and most societies, not to mention the global economy. Trips were cancelled and jobs were lost;…
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USM intern evaluates agriculture for school curricula.
By Dr Antonio Carmona Beaz After two full years of restoring its academic programming and securing accreditation for its degree programmes, following Hurricane Irma, the University of St. Martin (USM) finally opened its doors to student internships from abroad to help push research in the community. The first student intern arrived in September from the…
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Caribbean Research Programme Chair Assigned to Francio Guadeloupe
Former University of St. Martin (USM) president Dr. Francio Guadeloupe has become one of the two recipients of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) grants assigned to the Caribbean part of the Dutch Kingdom and will serve as research programme chair, based at USM for the next five years. The announcement was made on Thursday, 7…
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ECO Learning with St Maarten Government & Spaceless Gardens
**PRESS RELEASE** Ministry of Public Health, Social Development & Labor Affairs Great Bay— In recognition of “World Food Day, observed each year on October 16, the Department of Community Development, Family & Humanitarian Affairs (CDFHA) in partnership with Spaceless Gardens will offer an eight (8) week program on Agro Ecology starting on November 9,2020. …
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Building great Partnerships is key towards the diversification of our economy and reducing our plastic waste
St Maarten has to power to produce anything, to be innovative and take on the world with an abundance of products and services that are all culturally infused and connected. Products that identify US, our cultural, heritage and connect to a non fiction folks tales that were all part of our day to day lives!…
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Cultural Xpression April 2020 | Celebrating 6 years during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Perhaps it just A Natural Mystic IN April that COVID-19, influenced St. Martiner’s to turn to Home-growing. As the COVID-19 pandemic starts to settle in and get a hold on the masses, there is a major shift in the atmosphere. Farming and back yard gardens have seem to be taking over world wide, even more…
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The COVID-19 pandemic: An opportunity to break with our past
By Antonio Carmona Báez For decades now, the search for economic diversification and drive to overcome the tourist-based, single pillar economy has been on the agenda of some political leaders, scholars and critics of unsustainable market practices. The main arguments: mass tourism, accompanied by cruise ships and holiday resorts, benefits only a few; it does…