Records board · Sint Maarten
- Open-government law
- LOB
- Who may file
- Anyone
- Channels
- 01–03
Public records
Documents from government and public bodies, published in full — with the day we asked and the day they answered.
01The law we file under
Landsverordening Openbaarheid van Bestuur
Who may ask
Anyone. You do not need to be a journalist — we file the same way any reader can, and the requests we file are listed in channel 03.
How long it has
Six weeks — 42 days — from the day the request is filed. Every entry on this board prints the day we asked and the day the answer came, so the gap between them is on the record.
What we publish
The document in full, as it reached us, hosted here. A refusal is an answer too, and it goes in the library with the same dates.
If there is a document you think should be public, tell us at news@sxmtoday.sx and we will consider filing for it. How we work · Corrections
Published by the authorities themselves
Government of Sint Maarten — decrees, budgets and official publications.
Parliament of Sint Maarten — meeting documents and legislation.
How we got this: Entered by handLandsverordening Openbaarheid van Bestuur · who may file, and the six weeks it gives a public body to answer
02The public record, in full.
Nothing in it yet
0 documents
Nothing in the library yet
This library holds documents we hold ourselves: obtained under the open-government law, officially published, filed in court, or given to us on the record. Each one is published in full, with the day we asked and the day it arrived.
A request can take the full six weeks, so the library fills slowly and then keeps filling. Sint Maarten’s government and Parliament publish some documents themselves — you’ll find those links in The law tab.
How we got this: Entered by handSXM Today records library · each document hosted here, in full, as it reached us
03Requests we have filed
Answer due six weeks after filing
None open in our log
When we file a request we log the day it goes in. It appears here with the day the answer is due and the days waited so far, and stays until the document arrives.
You can file one yourself. Ask the public body in writing for the document you want, and note the date — the six weeks runs from it.
| Authority | What we asked for | Filed | Answer due | Waited |
|---|
How we got this: Entered by handSXM Today request log · kept by hand, from the day we file
How a document reaches us
The label on every entry
| Printed on the entry | What it means |
|---|---|
| Obtained under the open-government law | We asked for it under the open-government law. The day we filed and the day it arrived are printed with it. |
| Officially published | The authority published it itself. We keep a copy here so it stays reachable. |
| Court filing | Filed in a court case and open to the public. |
| Press release | Issued by the organisation named on it. |
| Provided to us on the record | Given to us directly by the organisation, on the record. |
A leaked document is not one of these five. Publishing one is decided case by case, with legal advice.
Calibration
Three channels · 01–03
Where the information comes from, what it tells us, and when we last read it.
| Ch | Source | What we print from it | Method | Last read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Landsverordening Openbaarheid van Bestuur | The six-week answer limit | Entered by hand | Set by statute |
| 02 | SXM Today records library | Documents we hold, in full | Entered by hand | Nothing published yet |
| 03 | SXM Today request log | Requests filed and unanswered | Entered by hand | Nothing open |
Red — needs attention
Red appears on this board in one situation: a request of ours has passed the six weeks the law allows and has not been answered. It marks the overrun on the scale and the days in the table — never a verdict of ours on why an authority is late.
Overview & verification
01The limit the law sets on an answer
In the law's wordsSix weeks42
Days from filing · no request of ours yet