ST. LOUIS, St. Martin (August 7, 2003) — The Duzansons, one of St. Martin’s traditional families, just found out that in 1848, one of their direct ancestors wasted no time in defying the evil slave system on the island. he news from over 100 years ago, reached the...

GREAT BAY, St. Martin (August 6, 2003) — St. Martin’s national tree, the Flamboyant, was probably called the “July tree” way before it was connected to Emancipation in 1848, and more likely because its powerful surge of color peaks in July. But not unlike the “August...

MARIGOT, St. Martin (juillet 2003) — Deviner ou parler de l’histoire récente de St. Martin sans références précises est une chose, en identifier et répertorier les faits marquants, c’est un défi. Dans son nouveau livre, 1963 Année Charnière à St. Martin, Daniella...

GREAT BAY, St. Martin (July 2, 2003) — Lt. Gov. Franklin Richards recommended yesterday that the Island Councilors here read the book Introduction to Government Island territory of St. Maarten, by Louis Duzanson. Lt. Governor Richards included Introduction to...

GREAT BAY, St. Martin (June 30, 2003) — It will be a fitting 155th anniversary tribute to Emancipation Day when the video “companion” to Clara Reyes master’s study of the Ponum is shown here at the Cultural Center on Tuesday, July 1, 2003, from 6 PM to 7:30 PM. The...

GREAT BAY, St. Martin (June 26, 2003) — St. Martin’s leading choreographer Clara Reyes will present her master’s thesis on the Ponum dance to the public here at the Cultural Center, Backstreet, on July 1, 2003. The Emancipation Day presentation, from 6 PM to 7:30 PM,...

GREAT BAY, St. Martin (June 23, 2003) — The biographical booklet Lambee & The Road That Couldn’t Be Built will be launched in Saba on Friday, June 27, 2003, said Jacqueline Sample of House of Nehesi Publishers. House of Nehesi published the junior scholastic reader...

GREAT BAY, St. Martin (June 16, 2003) — The new pioneerseries booklet has just been published here and it profiles the legendary Saban road builder Josephus Lambert “Lambee” Hassell. Lambee & The Road That Couldn’t Be Built is the fourth junior scholastic reader from...

GREAT BAY/MARIGOT, St. Martin (June 15, 2003) — St. Kitts-Nevis Minister of Culture Jacinth Henry-Martin will not only deliver the keynote address at St. Martin’s First Book Fair on June 20 at 8 PM, but will also launch her first book of poems, said book fair...