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PHILIPSBURG - Radio stations PJD2/PJD3 are ready to host the Golden Voice Song festival scheduled for this Sunday Valentines day at the Festival village.

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PHILIPSBURG - On Saturday February 6th at around 5 p.m. a Philipsburg Police patrol located 8 stolen vehicles hidden deep in bushes between Zorg en Rust and Union Farm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Packing a luggage for your next holiday is always an happy activities. It is like the last strain before being totally on vacation, the last fatigue before enjoying the sweet doing nothing. But it isn't something you can do without thinking or reason. How many times you brought with you cloths and accessories that you never use, neither just one time?

Here for you 7 simple tips on how to pack your luggage for your next vacation. They are specific for St. Maarten/St. Martin but can be useful for you next trip wherever you want.

1_ Check the weather

First of all consider the weather of your destination and possible changes that can occur.

In St. Maarten/St. Martin the climate is the same all year long. It could be cooler on some months of the year during the night, but even in that case all you need is just a long sleeves jacket. So, when packing your suitcase for St. Maarten/St. Martin the cloths you need are quite light and take little space. Our suggestion is don't get carry away with that,, and pack tons of shorts and swimsuit. A pair of flip-flop is enough, a couple of swim suit and two nice dresses in case of a night out.

 

2_ Consider stuff you can buy on site

Check your accommodation and what's included in it. If you are planning to stay in an hotel you don't need to bring towels, blow dryers, toothpaste, shampoo and similar items as they are provided by the hotel itself, but St. Maarten/St. Martin has a lot of alternative accommodation. You can decide to stay in a condo house, an apartment or even in a villa, where probably you won't find most of those items. Consider the possibility of buying those items directly on site so you won't have the hassle to carry them during your journey.

Perhaps there are specific items that you cannot live without and that are hard to be found where you will go: often cream, lotion or emollient can be purchased in a smaller version, the famous mini-travel-size.

 

3_ Shoes – the biggest problem

Shoes are always a big problem when packing your luggage. Bring just 1 or 2 pairs when traveling: you have just two foot and you don't need more! In St. Maarten/St. Martin you will where flip-flop most of the time so those one, plus an elegant pair of shoes for the nights out is enough.

 

4_ Plan your days

Your vacation could be an holiday, a business trip, or just a quick travel to attend an occasion. In any case think first!

There is no need to bring a lot of dresses or all your best bottom-top combinations if you have to attend just a couple of meetings. A lot of people do so: they bring a lot of stuff and then think “I will choose when I'm there”. Well, that's not smart, because you take the risk to carry all your walk-in-closet to use just the 5% of it. If you are planning a business trip to St. Maarten/St. Martin, or everywhere else, pack just the dresses that can be easily converted into casual wear in case you need to hit to the bars or restaurants after the official meetings. Think first and plan your days!

 

5_ Keep the extras at home – you will come back

When traveling people think to need everything they need at home. Well this is not true and most of the time is also heavy. Being St. Maarten/St. Martin a very touristic place, it can count on several touristic-typical services, such as cell-phone rentals and Internet points. You see? You already get rid of two items. Keep home also your most valuable object like jewels, as they can be lost or stolen and then be honest with yourself: you do not mandatory need them!

An other suggestion is not to bring tons of book with you. Even if you are a book lover and are planning to relax and read most of your time, try to choose just two of them or maybe download it on your Amazon Kindle.

 

6_ Be chic with light, glamorous accessories

Sometimes during your vacation you have to attend special occasions or fancy dinners and of course you want be ready for that. To make the most of what you are carrying, you could include accessories which will glam your simple black dress into an elegant evening gown. A nice belt, an hat, some simple jewels and an elegant silk shawl can create an impressive glamorous outfit for your party time.

 

7_ Drop items you never use at home

Folks going abroad for the first time often do the mistake of thinking they’re going to other planet and pack many extra items also. This common mistake happens often due to the lot of fantastic looking travel gadgets available, but a good guideline is if you do not use them at home, you will also don’t need them in your trip.

 

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PHILIPSBURG - Many modern masters made the artistic pilgrimage to Africa seeking rejuvenation, searching for a new way of “seeing”. Picasso found it in the African masks and gave birth to cubism.

Others, especially in the so-called “New World” drank from its wellspring to produce what is now referred to as “magical realism.” Without placing him on the same pedestal, Mosera, has let the Africa he has been carrying within him emerge in a different way on his canvas.

In his new exhibition titled “Linkage”, Mosera returns to a familiar space, a well-known terrain to him, where he feels at home, and where his work acquires the dimension of a “seer” who knows his medium.

Seeing is an essential aspect of the plastic arts. However, what the inner eyes see may make the naked eyes seem blind.

The true artist sees with his inner eyes, where the real and the surreal are sometimes wedded through “magic”; where “reality” is not what is real, but what you make real, and hence does not have to conform to existential facts.

In “Linkage”, which opens Thursday, February 11, 2010 at the Tropisme Gallery in Grand Case, Mosera’s works are shown alongside a number of “ancient” African sculptures in the private collection of art connoisseur, J.C. Huet. The combination is an invitation to compare Mosera’s paintings with these sculptures from the Motherland.

It is a tantalizing proposition given the fact that we are being asked to compare apples and oranges. But the closer we look, the clearer we see what Mosera has been trying to make us see for a long while through his inner eyes: that as descendants of Africans in the New World, Africa has never left us.

The African mask represents a combination of spiritual, cultural, ceremonial and traditional values of a people who treasured communal life. How are these values reflected in Mosera’s paintings? The answer can be found on the walls of the Tropisme Gallery in Grand Case.

Mosera, who donated his painting, “Judas Kiss”, sold recently for some Naf. 7,000.00 in an exhibition in Curacao that raised about Naf. 119,000 in aid of the victims of the Haitian earthquake, last showed his works here in December 2008.

He, however, took part in an exhibition held in November 2009 to officially open the Inner Gallery in St. Lucia in which Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott was one of the featured artists.

The new exhibition, “Linkage” is open to the public from February 11 – February 21 from 10:00AM until 1:00PM and 5:00PM to 9:00PM daily. The official opening will start at 6:00PM Thursday, February 11. Admission is free.

_{Photo: “Coffee”. In Photo; “Coffee”, One of Mosera’s latest paintings in acrylic on canvas, which is on display at the exhibition.}