Dear Editor,
The word on the street and internationally is that St. Maarten has become a cesspool of crime and corruption. The perception that every government company, their CEO and their supervisory boards are viewed as rogues or potential rogues by locals, and the outside world is also not in doubt.
Dear Editor,
I just read GEBE’s press release about outages lasting till the end of next week, and more to come in the following month to catch up with deferred maintenance.
Dear Editor,
It is obvious that the management of the school in Betty’s Estate that is currently under scrutiny has not been forthright with the public. With baited breath, we waited for substantial information, but got nothing more than what was already known. As the denial lingers, the clouds of suspicion just multiplies. The institution must realise that the only way to remove this doubt, is to face the reality and come clean. It would have been more understandable if the alleged sexual misconduct did involve two minors; but when the implication surrounds a principal, who is charged with the authority to guide, then the situation is different. Therefore, it cannot be handled in this secretive and dispassionate manner.
Dear Editor,
I started to comment on a different topic when, what has become a nuisance, the days current went again, this time for almost two hours. Last week G.E.B.E. promised us that there would not be any outages for a while because the problem causing the load shedding was solved. That was like telling us that the mouse will not eat the cheese anymore because we bought a mousetrap.
Dear Editor,
There was a call by the leaders of the largest political parties in Parliament for independence. As could be expected, very little was carried on the subject in the local press, but be that as it may for us as a budding nation we have finally garnered enough courage to say we stand ready to do it for ourselves. However, this is but a small step, we would hope that all factions in Parliament would come together and approve a referendum in the coming year, where the people can give their blessings to the desire to make use of our right to self-determination, and put an end to the many colonial dictates insults and disrespect.
