Your island, in view.
Bridge openings, flights and published notices. Plan the day from here.
No notice does not mean everything is running. These services don’t publish all-clears.
Next announced bridge opening
08:30AST · tomorrow
Outbound
Times can shift. Confirm on VHF 12.
How we got this: Checked by our newsroomSimpson Bay Lagoon Authority (Port St. Maarten) · · published schedule, not a live position
01Simpson Bay Bridge
7 announced openings today
08:30
Next · tomorrow · Outbound
09:30
Inbound
10:30
Outbound
11:30
Inbound
14:00
Inbound
16:00
Outbound
17:00
Inbound
Extra openings are added during regattas and for large vessels. Times shift occasionally. For anything time-critical, confirm on VHF Channel 12 — that’s the live source, not us.
The Causeway Bridge, the alternate crossing, opens at 08:00, 10:00, 16:30.
How we got this: Checked by our newsroomSimpson Bay Lagoon Authority (Port St. Maarten) · · the published timetable, not a live position
03Service notices
5 sources · newest first
What each service has published, not what we think its state is.
Power & water
Announcements and press releases from NV GEBE.
Over a year
Power & water has published nothing for this long.
Treat everything below as history, not today’s status — and check www.nvgebe.com or their social media instead.
Earlier published notices (3)
How we got this: Published noticePower & water ·
Weather
Watches, warnings and advisories from the Meteorological Department of Sint Maarten, as it lists them. It issues these only when it expects a hazard.
Nothing is in force on MDS’s alert list. That is what MDS has issued, not a forecast — weeks without a warning are normal in calm weather.
Earlier published notices (2)
How we got this: Published noticethe Meteorological Department (MDS) ·
Airport
Flight arrivals, departures and disruption at Princess Juliana (SXM).
PJIAE publishes no feed — check their site for live flight status.
How we got this: Official feedAirport · · no feed we can read
Port & cruise
Cruise calls and port operations.
Their corporate site blocks automated reading, but we read Port St. Maarten's schedules portal each day — the calls are on our cruise calendar.
How we got this: Official feedPort & cruise · · no feed we can read
Government
Official announcements, emergency measures and public notices.
Their news pages publish no feed, so there is nothing here to list. We do read the National Gazette and Parliament each day — those reach the newsroom, not this board.
How we got this: Official feedGovernment · · no feed we can read
02Power & water in our log
Power and water, in our own log
Nothing open in our log
We log power and water outages by hand, from what GEBE publishes and what readers send us. The full record is on /power, including which districts appear in it most.
GEBE announces outages on Facebook rather than anywhere we can read automatically, so outages happen that never reach this log.
How we got this: Checked by our newsroomSXM Today outage log · kept by hand, updated as we log
04Flights today
Princess Juliana · island time
How we got this: Shared with permissionPrincess Juliana International Airport (PJIAE) · · published with PJIAE’s permission · gate information is on sxmairport.com
- No arrivals listed today.
- No departures listed today.
Arrivals
No arrivals listed
The airport’s published board carries nothing for today. That is what PJIAE is publishing, not a statement that nothing is flying.
05Next public holidays
6 upcoming
| Public holiday | Date |
|---|---|
| St. Maarten's Day | Wed 11 November 2026 |
| Christmas Day | Fri 25 December 2026 |
| Boxing Day | Sat 26 December 2026 |
| New Year's Day | Fri 1 January 2027 |
| Good Friday | Fri 26 March 2027 |
| Easter Sunday | Sun 28 March 2027 |
How we got this: Official feedGovernment of Sint Maarten ·
Cruise ships
On /cruise · three weeks ahead
Who’s in port today and over the next three weeks — arrival and departure times, and how many berths are in.
Not on this board
Known gaps
Power outages
GEBE announces these on Facebook rather than anywhere we can read automatically, so they won’t appear in the notices above. We log them by hand instead — see power & water outages.
Pharmacy duty roster
No reliable published source on either side of the island. We’re working on it.
Live port operations
We read Port St. Maarten’s published schedule each day, so the cruise calendar is only ever as current as their last publication. It is a schedule, not a live position: a ship delayed or diverted this morning still shows as listed.
During a storm, Storm Mode is a stripped-down page that works on a poor connection and keeps the last bulletin available offline.
Sources & updates
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 | Simpson Bay Lagoon Authority (Port St. Maarten) | Next announced opening | Checked by our newsroom | 20 Sept 2026 |
| 02 | SXM Today outage log | Outages open in our log | Checked by our newsroom | As we log |
| 03 | Power & water | Announcements and press releases from NV GEBE. | Published notice | 05 Nov · 17:00 |
| 03 | the Meteorological Department (MDS) | Watches, warnings and advisories from the Meteorological Department of Sint Maarten, as it lists them. It issues these only when it expects a hazard. | Published notice | 05 Nov · 17:28 |
| 03 | Airport | Flight arrivals, departures and disruption at Princess Juliana (SXM). | Official feed | 05 Nov · 17:00 |
| 03 | Port & cruise | Cruise calls and port operations. | Official feed | 05 Nov · 17:00 |
| 03 | Government | Official announcements, emergency measures and public notices. | Official feed | 05 Nov · 17:00 |
| 04 | Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIAE) | Flights listed today | Shared with permission | 05 Nov · 17:28 |
| 05 | Government of Sint Maarten | Public holiday dates | Official feed | 05 Nov · 17:28 |
Red — needs attention
Red appears on this board in two situations: a source has gone quiet and you should not read its last post as today’s status, or there is a live source that is not us and you should go to it. It is never our own verdict on the island.