by oes_news | May 29, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
Great Bay, St. Martin (May 29, 2016)—Experts from the Forensics Department of the St. Maarten Police and popular Canadian science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson may not know each other yet but their worlds are about to collide on the Friendly Island. “Collide is...
by oes_news | May 17, 2016 | News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 17, 2016)—St. Martin author Fabian Adekunle Badejo will join Trinidad’s storyteller Paul Keens-Dougles, and fresh back from London, England novelist Montague Kobbe to open Anguilla’s Lit Fest on the morning of May 20, according to Badejo’s...
by oes_news | May 16, 2016 | News 2016
GREAT BAY (May 16, 2016)—On Wednesday, May 18, the Independence for St. Martin Foundation (ISMF) will make a presentation to the Parliament of St. Maarten, on two agenda points, according to the ISMF. The first agenda point scheduled for the meeting is the “Holding of...
by oes_news | May 16, 2016 | News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 16, 2016)—Soualiga Catholica – St. Martin of Tours Parish (1841 – 2016) is the new book by Gerard van Veen that will be launched here at the Parish Hall on Wednesday, May 18, at 7:30 PM, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi...
by oes_news | May 13, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 10, 2016)—How can the life of a writer, his or her books, and other facets of his or her life be made into an exciting movie? Surinamese film director Ida Does has already answered that question. Poetry is an island is a feature film about...
by oes_news | May 8, 2016 | News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 8, 2016)—The United Volleyball Club (UVC) is gearing up for its annual “summer camp,” said club coordinator Dr. Rhoda Arrindell. UVC members will be among those attending the camp and at least one will serve as a camp leader for the...
by oes_news | May 8, 2016 | News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 8, 2016)—The people at Don’t Break the Comb (DBC) have come up with what looks like the making of a new hair social event. “The upcoming program is called ‘Let There Be Hair!’” said Rochelle Ward, the DBC managing director. DBC, the St....
by oes_news | May 1, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
by Ralph Cantave GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 1, 2016)—The Peridot Foundation will contribute to the sponsorship of the 14th annual St. Martin Book Fair, June 2 – 4, 2016, said the Hon. drs. Gracita Arrindell. This is the third time that Peridot has teamed up with the...
by oes_news | Apr 8, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News, News 2016
GREAT BAY – Dynamic speaker and leading space scientist Dr. Camille Wardrop Alleyne will deliver the keynote address of the St. Martin Book Fair, June 2 – 4, 2016, said Shujah Reiph, book fair coordinator. “The Science of It” is the theme of the literary...
by oes_news | Mar 30, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (March 30, 2016)—The Virgin Islands Public Library has received a gift pack of books published in St. Martin as a promotion of the St. Martin Book Fair and of book publishing and literary readings in the Caribbean, said Jacqueline Sample,...
