Dear Editor,
We are very disappointed with the news we heard that bus drivers are getting insurance for themselves and their families from Nagico, or whosoever the insurance company is.
Should not approve any insurance like this for those kinds of bus divers we have in St. Maarten, until these bus drivers agree and are willing to run their buses through Middle Region, Sucker Garden, and Pointe Blanche.
No insurance deal should approve this; we are calling on the insurance company in question to reverse this deal, and go back and sit around the table again, and encourage those bus drivers to run Middle Region, Sucker Garden and Pointe Blanche. The minister of transportation should be part of this negotiation. Bus drivers love to demand what they want, but never hear the call of the citizens. They cannot find buses to run Middle Region, Sucker. Garden, and Point Blanche.
And not only those who live in this district alone are complaining about the bus situation, also people who live elsewhere, who want to go to these districts to visit their relatives and loved ones are complaining too.
If Government will not do something about the bus situation in Middle Region, Sucker Garden, and Point Blanche, these three district should form a movement and demand for St. Maarten to have its own district representative.
I have been calling on Government to resurface Middle Region Road from the Tamarind tree to Romeo Drive for the mean time. Let the buses coming into Middle Region help the citizens of Middle Region. It is difficult for Middle Region people to get transportation to come home when they are on the Pond Fill, Illidge Road and Madame Estate.
Buses are not coming to Middle Region, instead from town to Madame Estate $1.00 bus fee, it should be from town to Middle Region, Entrance $1.00. We should not be paying $1.50 for bus fee at Middle Region entrance.
The minister for transportation should look into this and fix it. Lenny Priest said that one of his priorities, if elected, is that buses will run Middle Region, Sucker Garden, and Pointe Blanche. Let’s see what this present minister for transportation will soon do for us.
Cuthbert Bannis
