Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. The island is building back better with the help of the Sint Maarten Reconstruction, Recovery and Resilience Trust Fund, which is financed by The Netherlands, managed by the World Bank, and implemented by Sint Maarten.

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Unlocking Potential: How Early Learning Assessments Are Changing Education in Sint Maarten

We saw that 77% of students in English-instruction schools spoke English at home.
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From Recovery to Resilience: Inside Sint Maarten’s Transformation

US$15.5 million was given to the shipwreck salvaging activity to clean up the Simpson Bay Lagoon.
Op-ed

Closing the Skills Gap to Create More Jobs in the Caribbean

Across several Caribbean countries, young people are discovering that academic qualifications, while essential, do not always open the doors they expected.

At - A - Glance

Sint Maarten is recovering from two successive profound economic shocks. Severe damage to tourism-related infrastructure from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017 led to a sharp economic downturn in 2017 and 2018. The cumulative contraction of GDP in 2017 and 2018 is an estimated 12 percent.

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Emergency Income Support and Training Project

In Sint Maarten, Hurricane Irma left thousands of people unemployed. This project will enable approximately 1,800 of them to receive skills-training, and have better work opportunities.

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