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Thank You, Kingdom Government.

Thank you, Kingdom Government, for treating St. Maarten residents like FIRST CLASS CITIZENS. Making the COVID19 vaccine available to us. We received our shots even ahead of many citizens of Holland, which makes me and most of us that already got the jabs happy that we are part of the bigger-than-us-on-our-own-16-square-mile-half-of-an-island entity called the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

I do not agree with many of your tactics, like for instance how you dealt with showing us tough love after IRMA and a few more occasions, but sending us vaccines, feeding our hungry since the hurricane, providing resources for NGOs to help those most in need, reflects the benefit of being part of a larger entity.

But maybe now we need more than just humanitarian aid and that will take a collective effort from politicians from both sides of the Atlantic.

Michael J Read more

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An Elitist Defending The Entitled, WhatS New?

Dear Mr. Editor,

Allow me to start by telling you a short story. Once upon a time there were a handful of entitled people on St. Maarten who believed that they controlled everything, even peoples thoughts. This group of elitists carved up St. Maarten for themselves and extended families, sometimes even stole land from other local people who werent well off. Thinking back today, it reminded you of a modern-day sci-fi movie when you werent allowed to utter their names in any critical fashion out of fear of reprisals.

Open vindictiveness was rife in the country and not every local was viewed as equal Read more

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How Does Brian Mingo Disprove An Un-Truth?

MP Christophe Emmanuel and his (not so-)ghost writer are at it again. Tearing down and blemishing the good reputation of son-of-the-soil, as-local-as-they-come, educated professional and STILL CEO of the PJIAE, Brian Mingo..

The MP in todays media once more takes aim at Mr. Mingo, this time throwing out a story about lavish spending by the PJIAE CEO, but refuses to produce any substantiating evidence of his allegations (mind you, it is very possible that money WAS spent by the CEO; the question is how has it been accounted for in the airports books?);

yesterday (Tuesday May 18) Emmanuel proclaimed publicly his approval of the great choice of Parliament to appoint well educated, young St Read more

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What Is Next At Sxm-Airport??

So now that the educated local professional has been fired (unceremoniously, I might add), Who will get the job to run things at PJIAE?
What will be the requirements for the new CEO?
Must it be a man? Can it be a woman?
Must he/she be a born-here?
Must he/she have a specific skin color?
Must he/she come from a specific cultural background
Must he/she have experience in (re-)building international airports?
Must he/she have experience in professionally running an international airport?
Must he/she be able to think for him/herself?
Must he/she be able to on a high level deal with financiers, bondholders, bankers, lawyers and government?
Must he/she be capable of and prepared to kiss butts?
When asked to jump, must he/she have the frame of mind not to ask why, but how high?

Answers to these questions may give the island population a better insight in what could be the next chapter in the saga of getting the airport fully restored, up and running sooner than later Read more

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