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...
By Dr. Antonio Carmona Báez For decades now, farming communities across the world have looked to agri-tourism as a means to secure economic diversification and rural socio-economic development. More recently, as commercial and mass tourism (cruise ships, resorts and more recently AirBnB) find the need to reconcile its business practices with the impact of climate change,...
Week 3 was an amazing week despite the interruption of the rain. The group’s focused this week was on Plant Science and Soil Types. This session was important for them to grasp the basic understanding of the parts a plant, layers of the soil and diffrent soil type and amendments.. The mission is always to...
In this months edition of Cultural Xpression we touch base with a very interesting person with a passion for higher education of his fellow man. Dr Carmona Baez currently holds the position of President of the University St Martin and seem determine to improve the current situation at our local university so others and country...
Our kids are showing interest for Agriculture within the school system! What is The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth & Sport plan to do about this? This month was amazing with the Kids at Sister Magda Primary school.. Spaceless Gardens in collaboration with ECO St Maarten Agricultural Research & Development Foundation has Completed a basis...
Att: Minister Giterson – Ministry VROMI St Maarten CC: Council of Ministers, Members of Parliament, Governor of St Maarten Sub: Open Letter to Minister Giterson – Progress as a blessing for all. Bless day Minister Giterson, I would like to first thank you for taking time to review documents submitted to you on Sept. 10,...
To teach or not to teach ? That is never the question, as we all tend to teach our kids the best we can with hopes it leads them to live a better life or have more opportunities then we did as parents. Though we always tend to want the best for our kids, we...
PHILIPSBURG – Minister of Education, Culture, Youth & Sport Jorien Wuite announces the appointment of Clara Reyes as new Head of the Department of Culture. Clara fills the vacancy left by the sudden passing of former department head, St. Maarten icon, Neville York in May 2017. Clara Reyes has a distinguished background in the Arts....
Over the Past few months Spaceless Gardens has been embarking on a journey to empower community members about the importance of agriculture with hopes to stimulate a change of mind set towards the importance of the sector. The Project ‘’ St Peters Community Gardens Research and Development center has been geared toward granting opportunities to...
