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Seven Sint Maarten residents received Royal Decorations on King's Day 2025
At the Governor's King's Day reception in April 2025, themed "Legacies of Service", three people were made Knights and four Members in the Order of Orange-Nassau for their service to Sint Maarten.
By SXM Daily ยท
Reported 26 April 2025.
Seven people in Sint Maarten received Royal Decorations at the Governor's King's Day reception in April 2025, which carried the theme "Legacies of Service". Three were appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau and four were made Member of the same order, according to the Governor's speech as published by Soualiga Newsday.
The three new Knights named in the speech were Jan Willen Frederik Bus, for his work in sport and health activities; Ludwina Federica Hodge Sprok, for almost four decades of service at the Public Prosecutor's Office and her church volunteer work; and Tadzio Yuko Bervoets, for nature conservation, including his role in setting up the Man of War Shoal Marine Park in December 2010. Bus was not able to attend.
About the decorations
Royal Decorations are awarded each year around King's Day, 27 April, to people in the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have given long and notable service to their communities. The decrees for the 2025 round were published in the Staatscourant, the Kingdom's official gazette. CMOORE Journal also reported on the reception and the seven honourees.