St. Maarten / St. Martin overview

[rfranzq]

Originally Posted by 123456

To be correct: Sint Maarten (The Dutch part) used to be a part of the Netherlands Antilles. On 10-10-2010 the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved and the islands of Sint Maarten and Curacao became separate but not independent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The other islands of the former Netherlands Antilles (Saba, Sint Eustatius and Bonaire) don't have that 'status aparte' and are now a kind of special Caribbean communities of the Netherlands. But to my disappointment the EU rules on roaming do not (yet?) apply to these islands. Also Dutch telecom providers don't have towers in what is known as "Caribbean Netherlands".

In the 1960s, when I was in 4th grade [about 10 years old], I did a report on the Netherland Antilles. I kind of missed when Curacao changed status, but somewhere I saw what was going to happen on 10/10/10. It sounds like everybody got what the wanted in kinds of governments.