SINT MAARTEN (GREAT BAY, (DCOMM) – Everyone who received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine three weeks ago at the White & Yellow Cross Care Foundation (WYCCF) and the Sint Maarten Medical Center (SMMC), is scheduled to receive their second dose this week or next week.
Three weeks ago, when the vaccination campaign started on Sint Maarten, the WYCCF and SMMC administered their staff and clients with their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. After that, the WYCCF continued for another week with the first registered persons 60 years or older. This group will receive their second dose this week or next week. If you were in this group, your next appointment at the WYCCF or SMMC will be at the exact same time and date as it was three weeks ago.
It is very important to complete your vaccination, because one dose alone does not provide full protection against the COVID-19 virus. One week after receiving the second dose, the protection that the vaccine provides is at its maximum level of 95%.
If you are unable to attend your second appointment, please call the WYCCF or SMMC to reschedule your appointment. The dose is reserved for you and cannot go to waste. Please don’t forget to bring your vaccination passport & identification with you to the appointment.
In the meantime, both other vaccination locations at the Collective Prevention Service (CPS), and the Belair Community Center are still open and receiving people for their first dose. The Vaccine Management Team (VMT) is happy to see that the number of persons registered for the vaccine is steadily increasing and passed 8.500 on Monday, March 15.
The VMT says that we’re not there yet and thus continues to encourage everyone who hasn’t registered, to do so, even if it is not yet your turn to receive one. If more people register, the vaccination rate can be scaled up, and moved to the last two priority risk groups.
Registration can be done via the online registration form which is available in English, Spanish and Creole and can be found via this link: https://forms.sintmaartengov.org/form.aspx?v=OGtn05kNmb.
Both Cole Bay & Dutch Quarter Community Helpdesks are currently equipped to provide information and can assist in registration on the spot. Do not forget to check the opening hours and bring a form of identification. Lastly, the paper-based “COVID Vaccine Registration Form” can be picked up at several locations, including CPS at the Vineyard Office Park Building, the Division of Labor Affairs at the Simpson Bay Public Service Center in Simpson Bay, Doctors’ offices, the Government Administration Building, and select pharmacies.
If you have a friend, parent, neighbor, or relative that may need assistance with registration, transportation, or emotional support, please do your part. If you need help with the registration process, your appointment, or wish for more information about the vaccination campaign, you can also call CPS at 914 or email: vaccination@sintmaartengov.org
Today I acknowledge and honor Mrs. Berthille Laveist-Chittick bka Teacher Betty. Everyone knows teacher Betty. Passionate and dedicated to her occupation and students for over 25 years. Teacher Betty loves her students, she calls them her children.
Berthille Agatha Chittick aka Teacher Betty born on the island of St.Eustatius on July 20th, 1961. In her early years, she lived on both islands as her Dad was a French national and her mom the Statian. As there were no high schools in those years on the island of St.Eustatius, after completing 5th grade her parents brought her back to St.Maarten where she lived on the French side of the island and attended school on the Dutch side ( the then Pastor Nieuwindt School Mavo, now Sister Borgia Elementary School where she is presently a Cycle 1 group one teacher) and completed those years at MPC. She worked at the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1981-1985 During the day she worked and attended the Teacher’s training course at night. She completed her years in 1986 with a ‘Kleuter leiders A” diploma and 1988 her “Kleuterleiders B”. In 2008 as an FBE teacher, She also worked with the Catholic school board since 1986. Imelda Kindergrten from 1986-2004 Sister Borgia Elementary 2004-present. Has the held the position as acting principal at both schools, and chairperson of many of the standing committees. She is grounded in her faith and is an active, devoted member of the Cole Bay Methodist Church. Teacher Betty has served in every area of the Youth Ministry from Cradle Roll to the Young Adult as a committed and dedicated leader. She also served as Congregational Stewards and Class Leader. She has a great passion for Education and Culture and is one of the actresses and lead singers of the 40 years Cole Bay Theatre Company, where she performed in many live plays of Local and Caribbean play writers, and skits for churches, and many other organizations and groups. A great Mistress of Ceremonies Other volunteer organizations dear to her heart among others are: St.Martin’s Veteran Club: A nonprofit sports organization of men and women over 35 years that caters to young athletes and gives back to the community especially the elderly. (As she was a former volleyball player herself) An executive board member of Peridot Foundation: A nonprofit foundation bringing awareness to eradicate violence against women and children Helping Hands Foundation: A weekly outreach program caring for our elderly. A very Humble, Helpful, Caring, Friendly, and people’s person
There are people who genuinely want to understand the current conflict between the St Maarten Government and the Holland Government. That is what I will try to explain here. But it is not simple, it is a complex situation. I am a born Dutch St Maartener, like my mother, my grandfather, great grandfather, but I’m also born Afro Caribbean. So I have a unique perspective. Being raised here, being educated and married in the USA, living in Holland like a refugee. Here we go…
Dutch European Racism Is Not The Reason The Majority of Black St Maarteners Continue to struggle in St Maarten. Black St Maarteners struggle in a cycle of poverty because of…
A) COLORISM…St Maarten is a modern day plantation. If you are not a light enough person of color… you cannot get the job. Or you are allowed to work in the field, not in the house. Overqualified, dark skinned St Maarteners won’t get the job. They qualify to be manager, but they hire them as the gardener. And you better not question it, because then you are ungrateful. The Dutch might have started the slave trade to St Maarten, but 200 years later, they are in Europe and it is OUR OWN BLACK PEOPLE perpetuating slavery, the slave mentality, plantation mentality, segregation, apartheid, colonialism… I don’t have to go to Europe or the Southern United States, or South Africa for that. All I have to do as a Black female is travel to Guana Bay or Cupecoy to be discriminated against in MY own country, by MY OWN people. Black on Black racism hurts us more than any European racist ever can.
B) CLASSISM: St Maarten is a kleptocracy. Unlike America, you are respected if you steal to keep up appearance. You are shunned if you bust your ass at Burger King, but lauded as a God if you steal enough millions to buy the poshest things. In the St Maarten government, they were literally having competitions to see which politician would make the most millions skimming Irma contracts. The people complaining about unfinished schools, are the same ones marching to defend Theo and Grisha. They don’t realize that part of that 17 Million stolen by Theo was meant to rebuild the schools. They are brainwashed, people like Claude Wathey, Theo Heyliger his wife Grisha have convinced many that they are Robin Hood, stealing from the oppressive, Dutch White man in order to provide for the poor people in St Maarten. People do not understand, once Holland releases the money, it is OUR money…. It just never gets to us. The St Maarten politicians have weak minded, semi literate sheep believing that it is a war between Holland and St Maarten. Bullsht! Please do not believe that. It is not about RACE in St Maarten, it is about class. They convince the POOREST and LEAST educated to go MARCH in the rain to release Theo from prison. They went to the brothels, put the Colombian and Venezuelan prostitutes in heels to MARCH for the St Maarten cause. They PAY poor, uneducated people to march, they are not even St Maarteners, but people see the photos around the World and believe St Maarteners are marching for their corrupt government… WE ARE NOT! It is plato or plombo. Threats and bribes, keep the population quiet.
When I spoke out they arrested and kept arresting me….NEVER CHARGED, OVER A DOZEN ARRESTS! But it was not about charging me with a crime, it was about putting fear in the St Maarten people. See??? Look at Judith, THIS is what happens if you open your mouth about government. Do you want to end up like Judith? Wouldn’t you rather have a cushy job as a no good do-nothing civil servant??? If you have to feed your kids and family, what do you do? You shut up, pretend there is no problem. If you understand what was done to me, year in year out as I was bleeding to death, then you will understand people with mouths to feed do NOT have a choice. They do not. If I had kids in St Maarten I would have been too afraid. Not for me, but for my kids. I don’t have kids. So they locked me up AND KILLED MY ANIMALS, THE ONES THAT ESCAPED I CAME HOME THEY WERE CRYING AND STARVING. Why? My pets were all I had after my mom died, so they figured if they killed them it would break me. I survived that, they made me stronger and more determined than ever.
In 2011, one year after I started my one person crusade against the corrupt Sint Maarten government, they came ON MOTHER’S DAY, took my mother. They had WARNED me not to go on the Oral Gibbs program, they had warned me to shut up. The week previous they sent my uncle Winston Roumou, Elaine’s father, to come to the house to let me know if I did not stop writing about the government they would take my mother and kill me. So they took my mom, and I was forced to be quiet in order to see her. Next time I saw my mother fully, it was a few months after they had taken her, she was in a coffin. THAT was supposed to kill me, I barely survived. I was diagnosed with PTSD in The Netherlands Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and it is ongoing, because I returned to Sint Maarten, nothing has changed. I am supposed to give up. Many days I do, but I cannot be inactive. That is almost torture, watching a problem, whispering about a problem doing nothing about it. Every so often my moods change, but people who know me, understand me. They just let me be, until I am normal again. I have to knock on wood, I am surrounded by pretty good neighbors that look out for me. So to those who wonder how I survive, I only allow SELECT people into my life. And they are thinking about my well being when I can’t. When the elite, big shot politicians were paying people, and being paid to hire people to literally assault and kill me, there are people in my life who NEVER say anything, but they save me over and over and over again. One guy told me in 2015… This is almost verbatim, he said “Judith, we would’ve run up on you in there (in my house) a million times….Do you know how we watch your house, all day?” I said, “Because of my surveillance cameras…”. He said “No, because of your nosy neighbors, watching your house”
NEPOTISM: Have you noticed that you only see the same last names in the St Maarten government? Year after year, generation after generation. Ministers of this and that. That is the NEPOTISM that is systemic in our political system. Why should you come back to St Maarten with your PHD, knowing that you will be forced to work under one of Leroy de Weever’s low IQ, nepotistic appointed daughters or one of his hand selected nieces and nephews? That is the game. In St Maarten either you play the game or you are not allowed to eat, sleep, work or live. Those are the options educated St Maarteners are given, so most flee and never come back. They bless other countries with their brilliance. Google St Maarten election slate for the past 40 years, look at the last names. Those who want to get in are kept out or squeezed out unless they want to play these games. So the smart people who have a choice leave and live in countries where they are appreciated. CRONYISM: They only appoint the children and family of people they owe favors to. Have you ever walked into any St Maarten Civil Servant or Government office, and wondered how on earth they were employed? Cronyism, a favor for a friend. While the most qualified who refuse to be compromised are forced to beg for bread. But it is better to beg than to steal, and bend over and prostitute yourself like these people in government. It is what they do, it is what they have to do to get ahead. You won’t do it, you stay broke. It is that simple.
POLITICAL FAVORS, FOLLOW ORDERS COMMIT CRIMES NO QUESTIONS ASKED, NO MORALS, NO ETHICS: Even if you have a brain in St Maarten, you are not allowed to use it. They don’t hire based on intelligence, they hire based on the fact that you follow orders, no questions asked. Whether it’s unethical, criminal or immoral, you are expected to do it…. no questions asked. If you don’t you receive a dismissal letter like the male police officer who was being sexually harassed by Minister Stuart Johnson. We all have the emails. When he refused to sleep with the Minister for money, he received a dismissal letter. Often in St Maarten the only qualification that you need is the lack of morals, ethics and a conscience. St Maarten politicians and government civil servants strut around so proud, like we don’t know what they had to do to get that SUV. We know that we cannot get the job, because we have to sleep at night. I have 10 years of SXM government emails. There are men strutting around in three piece suits, believing that they qualified for a job. Behind the scenes, behind his back his wife is performing favors on HIS supervisors, to ensure he gets promoted, and he doesn’t even know it. This is verifiable, she knows who she is.
The elites writing up petitions unilaterally, without respecting the people enough to ask them what they want are trying to use cheap, pop psychology. Gaslighting the St Maarten people, and it is not the Dutch Government, IT WAS OUR OWN BLACK PEOPLE. So keep blaming the Boogie Man.
They shunned me, starved me made it impossible to get a job or work. When I would get work they would say, “Do not pay her, or else’. They didn’t kill me, every day I woke up stronger, I don’t know how. Maybe my mother and grandmother are watching over me.
For those who do not know, from 2005 until 2015, I was battling massive tumors. I was hemorrhaging every day. Bleeding every day. I was denied medical help, left to die because of political pressure. This is not an immigrant, refugee, illegal alien story. THIS is what they do to you if you dare speak out. Imagine if you were a foreigner.
The military came to my house, escorted me to the airport, got me out of the country to save my life…it was after current Minister Ludmilla de Weevers father, then Parliamentarian Leroy de Weever KICKED ME IN MY STOMACH, ON CAMERA IN PUBLIC. AND HE PAID MONEY. OF COURSE HE GOT AWAY WITH IT. HE PAID THE RIGHT PEOPLE. THAT IS ALL YOU NEED IN SXM TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER. The right last name, the right connections and money. When they rushed me to the Netherlands for surgery. They could not operate. All I heard for 6 months as the tumors grew out of control, was that they couldn’t operate because I wouldn’t make it. They told me prepare to die. So I did. In Holland I was from doctor to doctor, specialist to specialist and every last one of them were shocked and stunned at my condition. I was a DUTCH PERSON IN A DUTCH COUNTRY WHO HAD BEEN DENIED MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, because in St Maarten, they even control the doctors. The abuse, the medical malpractice. The mistreatment. When this government tried literally for Years to kill me, WHITE MAKAMBA HOLLAND CAME AND RESCUED MY BLACK ASS FROM MY OWN BLACK PEOPLE, BEFORE THEY SUCCEEDED IN KILLING ME. I was poisoned, assaulted, blackballed, blacklisted… Not because I did anything bad but because I spoke out. I speak out sometimes not to be controversial, but to say what everyone else is whispering but afraid to say. While they are marching the Elites in government are having lunch at Yvettes in French Quarter, where they can’t be seen. Cookie, Emil, Grisha, Theo…INDIAN, ASIAN, BLACK WHITE all dining on $600 plates, 5 Course meals … How can it be a race issue? Once they steal enough money, rise to a higher social class, they look down on you. No matter what race they might be, or you might be. While you are out fighting and arguing for the party that you support, behind the scenes they are best friends wife swapping. In public they pretend to hate each other, and people buy it. They create imaginary enemies for the people to fear, and people believe it.
1) Before you join a war, you must find out who the general is… People are trying to get me to take sides, let me try to explain my perspective. 2) I am not a follower, even when following is the easiest. I could have had it easy, but my mind is wired differently. Maybe it’s because I’ve been abroad for so long. In order for me to be a part of something it has to make sense. 3) Because I didn’t bend or bow and they couldn’t compromise me, now they are trying to recruit me? 4) Grisha Marten, Rolando Brison are trying to gaslight the Black St Maarten people, as they continue to suppress them, and keep them ignorant of the reality and facts. 5) Gaslighting is using lies, trickery, deception in order to make people believe that they are not seeing what they are seeing. My only frustration is that so many St Maarteners fall for it. They make the politician a God and their Saviour, anyone who points out the lies and corruption is the enemy, the anti Christ. And that’s how this new Pro Black, Anti colonialism Movement is now trying to portray me. I’m a traitor because I refuse to follow a larcenous, gold digging grifter in a war not for the people, but waged to avoid prison after a conviction. A war waged to avoid repaying 17 million+ that they stole from US. 6) Grisha, Marcel, Oral, Solange, Chris, Rolando did the Referendum to de-colonize St Maarten on FACEBOOK and WHATSAPP. I am in the groups and chats. They don’t know I am there, I just observe and save all chats. 7) These so called Black revolutionaries like Grisha… they all live in GATED and SEGREGATED communities like Guana Bay. I lived for 15 years in the United States, traveled to the South. I was treated better by White Southerners than any denizen of Guana Bay. These so called Black revolutionaries live in GATED and SEGREGATED communities, to AVOID Black people. Yet, I am the only person who seems to see that. Never believe that St Maarteners do not want to speak out, they do, but they also see what happens to those who do. Right now, I am the only person who dares to say anything, but I am not the only person thinking and saying this. I am just the only person who dares to think it and say it out loud. Not because I am crazy or stupid, but because I feel I have no choice.
Terri Lyons performing ‘Meghan’ at the Back To Basic Kaiso Tent
Terri Lyons performing ‘Meghan’ at the Back To Basic Kaiso Tent
Written by: Maria Bhola, Terri Lyons Sung by: Terri Lyons
When Sparrow did sing About de white meat an’ ting Man dem start to fret Like he never eat ah dark meat yet But if ever you lack De understanding of once yuh go black In de pages of history will document Harry’s testimony (Yuh know why?)
De Prince gave up he money De Prince gave up his throne De Prince gave up he power (why?) Just for dark meat alone He family go sour De Queen she might sin she soul But he muddah go proud when he singing out loud Dark meat to de world Harry tell dem!
Once yuh go black, you’ll never go back (never!) Once yuh go black, you’ll never go back De haters on social media say dat Harry will soon regret But they will never understand why he leaving because They never eat a black meat yet…Aye!
Go Harry! Go Harry!
Harry mess with they pride When he introduce his bride De Queen she wasn’t happy, She was like, “What nonsense is this Harry?” It was a big joke Harry near make de woman ketch a stroke When he proclaim “Yes I do” to a woman of darker hue
De Prince gave up he money An’ he kick away he throne He tell dem he eh wah no power (why?) Just for dark meat alone He family go sour
De Queen she might sin she soul But he muddah go proud when he singing out loud Melanin to de world Harry tell dem! Once yuh go black, (you’ll never) you’ll never go back (Never! Never! Never!) Once yuh go black (tell dem) you’ll never go back
Harry said Peter, he’s disgusted, disappointed, confused and upset. But he cannot relate ‘cause he marry to Kate so He never eat a black meat yet… Aye! Harry tell dem!
Go Harry! Go Harry! Go Harry!
Is Harry who make de call He say “Not my wife at all” It still makes him shudder De way dem people did treat his mother So Harry decide to live his life colour blind Well he raise some eyebrows for sure When they saw his rasta mother- in- law
De Prince gave up he money An’ he pelt away he throne He tell dem he eh wah no power (why?) Just for dark meat alone He family go sour De Queen she might sin she soul But he muddah go proud when he singing out loud Dark meat to de world Harry tell dem!
Once yuh go black, (Never!) you’ll never go back (Never! Never! Never!) Once yuh go black (Never!) you’ll never go back De Queen say “Harry, my grandson you was always happy wit de rules dat we set” But she cyah feel what Harry is feelin’ because She never eat a black meat yet (Never!)
Go Harry! Go Harry! Go Harry! Go Harry!
De short time in de palace Enduring all d malice Some eh want to say it But half ah dem who complain’ was racist Dey thought dat Harry would’na gone as far as to marry But de power of de black beauty Make him go down on not one but on he two knees…Aye
De Prince gave up he money An’ he pelt away he throne He tell dem he eh wah no power (why?) Just for dark meat alone De family still in shock An’ de Queen in pure misery But he muddah go proud because Harry is now contributing to black history Harry tell dem!
Once yuh go black, (Never!) you’ll never go back (Never! Never! Never!) Once yuh go black (Never!) you’ll never go back Harry say, “My love, pack yuh clothes, leh we ship out wit no regret” Cause dey will never understand why it’s finger licking Because dey ever eat a black meat yet… Aye!! Go Harry! Go Harry! Go Harry! Go Harry!
Meghan, My Dear – song lyrics 2020 Calypso Monarch Trinidad and Tobago
WILLEMSTAD The figures are correct. Epidemiologist Izzy Gerstenbluth emphasizes this. He explains that things went well on the island for a long time, until the arrival of the new variants of the corona virus. The numbers are alarming. The figures really add up, says Gerstenbluth. The reason why the measures are being tightened now, again, is to get the virus back under control. Especially the group between 25 and 39 is now the most often tested positive, 40 percent of the infected people belong to this group. 37.1 percent of those who tested positive are between the ages of 40 and 64. According to the epidemiologist, it is therefore a relatively young group that contributes to the number of infections. He makes another appeal to you to comply with all measures. Keep your distance, wear your face mask, wash your hands. WILLEMSTAD De cijfers kloppen. Dat benadrukt epidemioloog Izzy Gerstenbluth. Hij legt uit dat het lange tijd goed ging op het eiland, tot de intrede van de nieuwe varianten van het coronavirus. De cijfers zijn verontrustend. De cijfers kloppen echt aldus Gerstenbluth. De reden waarom de maatregelen nu, opnieuw, worden aangescherpt is om het virus opnieuw onder controle te krijgen. Vooral de groep tussen de 25 en 39 wordt nu het vaakst positief getest, veertig procent van de besmette personen behoort tot deze groep. 37,1 procent van de positief getesten is tussen de 40 en 64 jaar. Volgens de epidemioloog is het dus een relatief jonge groep die bijdraagt aan het aantal besmettingen. Hij doet opnieuw een oproep om je aan alle maatregelen te houden. Hou afstand, draag je mondkapje, was je handen. https://curacao.nu/de-cijfers-op-curacao-zijn-verontrustend-de-cijfers-kloppen-echt/
PHILIPSBURG—A petition sent to the United Nations requesting two of its bodies to investigate “systemic discrimination, and racism perpetrated against the people of St. Maarten” has been met with loud rhetoric and threats from three opposition members of Parliament and Dutch Parliamentarians, respectively. On Sunday, Faction Leader for the United People’s Party (UPP) in Parliament Grisha Heyliger-Marten said: “The sudden outbursts of threats and rhetoric by some politicians suggest that we should just shut up and accept anything, including abuse, for money. Money which can’t reach the people yet since 2017.”
The Petition, submitted on March 9th, 2021 by Parliament’s legal counsel The Choharis Law Group, PLLC in Washington D.C., requests the UN to investigate several violations of international laws by means of fact-finding missions. The charges include the violation of St. Maarten’s UN-mandated right to a full measure of self-government based on absolute equality (with the Netherlands) and systemic racism perpetrated by the Dutch Government towards the Dutch citizens of the Caribbean.
The petition stems from a motion presented by MP Heyliger-Marten (United People’s Party) and subsequently passed by Parliament on November 5th, 2020 with 12 votes in favor and 3 against. In the fifth resolution of that motion, Parliament resolves to retain legal counsel to assist the Parliament and Government of Sint Maarten with ending the violations of Sint Maarten’s UN-mandated right to a full measure of self-government and completing the decolonization of Sint Maarten and the other islands of the former Netherlands Antilles.
MP Heyliger-Marten anticipated the Petition’s objection by the three local MPs, she said, “They forget that in accordance with Article 44, their role as Members of Parliament is to represent the general interest of the entire populace of Sint Maarten.” The idea that local politicians would rather grandstand to avoid upsetting “The Dutch” is a textbook reaction of a victim of abuse. “Unfortunately, most abused victims blame themselves and have a hard time putting an end to the abuse. We are not suggesting that we don’t want the relationship. We are merely saying it needs fixing. What’s good for you has to be good for my people too.
In a press release issued Sunday, MP Heyliger-Marten said: “I am very surprised by the strong reaction coming from Holland, considering the Dutch Government’s well-documented recent history of systemic racism, gross incompetence, and wide-spread corruption.”
“In 2007” the MP stated, “Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) Mark Rutte was convicted by a Dutch court for inciting racism in his policies as a State Secretary.
After that, between 2013 and 2015, the UN issued reports urging the Dutch State to combat systemic racism, based on the Blackface or “Zwarte Piet saga”. A report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance ECRI published on June 4 2019, said, “The hate crime and anti-discrimination legislation in Holland do not provide for sufficiently dissuasive sanctions. The scope of applying the General Equal Treatment Act AWGB is too narrow, and the authorities are not placed under an explicit duty to promote equality and prevent discrimination.”
The report also states that “the mainstream political discourse and media reporting continue to be strongly influenced by a xenophobic, fear-fueling rhetoric and politicians have openly expressed racist beliefs of biological superiority.”
Last December, the Dutch coalition Government fell based on the results of a Parliamentary investigation exposing years of covered up systemic racism, corruption, and government incompetence regarding child allowances. Yet, these same people believe that they can run the justice system and prison on Sint Maarten.”
She added: “Just this month, the Dutch Bar Association Nova’s report concluded that 7 of the 14 party manifestos conflict with the Dutch constitution related to immigration and refugees involving openly discriminating against certain groups of people or denying people access to independent judiciary. According to the report, Dutch political party VVD wants to adapt or pull out of the United Nations refugee treaty, and the VVD’s coalition partner CDA of State Secretary Knops would be breaking the law by cancelling refugee permits for people deemed to be radicalized.
“These are just some of the many examples. So, looking at all these developments in the Netherlands in the 21st century alone, the Dutch Government doesn’t need a petition from Sint Maarten to point out the racism-based lawlessness that they perpetrate against their own citizens including us here in the Caribbean. The petition merely confirms these facts and requests the UN to call Holland to order”, Heyliger-Marten said.
The claim that this Petition will “offend the Dutch”, causing them to stop providing aid, was refuted by Heyliger-Marten. She said, “The only way to stop a bully is to confront them” and further stated that “If they stop the funding, especially considering the harsh conditions they set for us to get it, and threatened us to withhold support from us if we did not give our autonomy, that will be equal to pleading guilty to the charges in the Petition.”
The motion and petition don’t suggest that we don’t want a relationship with the Netherlands. On the contrary, both documents point out that the relationship needs fixing based on the international laws that the Netherlands themselves signed on to and always say to uphold. What’s good for Dutch citizens has to be good for the people of Sint Maarten too.
“I have always supported our Prime Ministers with her negotiations. But I have always made it clear that these agreements must not be in violation of any laws be they on a local-, Kingdom-, or international level. The Petition is in line with this standpoint,” said Heyliger-Marten.
Heyliger-Marten concluded by saying that the abuse and unequal treatment of Caribbean Dutch citizens by the Dutch Government needs to end once and for all. “It is unfortunate that a petition was needed for the UN to once again weigh in on the Dutch Government’s policies” she stated. But if that’s what it takes to protect the rights of the citizens of Sint Maarten, we as Parliament have the right and obligation to follow that route.
Cheap, knock off wannabe dictators. I speak to a lot of people. Unlike these politicians I poll the people, I actually ask their opinion. Not ONE St Maartener that I spoke to want Grisha, Solange, Rolando, Chris, Toontje representing them. NOT ONE, I am editing the opinion video, uncensored. Even the people who want independence, they want decolonization, they loathe the Dutch, but they do NOT want these people UNILATERALLY deciding to represent them. Grisha, Rolando, Theo, Chris, Toontje need to be more worried about the St Maarten people right now than the Dutch.
I am St Peters, Grisha… the most populous district in St Maarten. YOU DO NOT REPRESENT US! Let The Washington Post know, that you people represent GUANA BAY… AND ONLY GUANA BAY… the MOST GATED and SEGREGATED District in St Maarten.
I have been patiently waiting for someone to speak out about this Grisha and Solange nonsense. But everyone is ducking and hiding…AFRAID of the Guana Bay Mafia.
Not ONCE, did any of these politicians come into ANY district, to ask the St Maarten people what they wanted. NOT ONCE! They only show up during elections to buy votes.
I am patiently waiting for others to speak out. All the mouth they got on Facebook, in the bars, on the radio…. WHERE ORAL? DAILY HERALD?
If you want a long career in the St Maarten government, don’t get caught stealing and keep Judith Regina Roumou name out of your mouth. I beat the veterans into submission, now they are sending the Newbies. They can call me anything in the book but a liar. Understand me…. I am an indigenous Black West Indian woman. I am at the bottom of the Totem Pole. I cannot just make statements as an indigenous Black woman. I have to provide verifiable EVIDENCE. I do this for free. The Translations, transcriptions, editing. Not because I’m stupid or crazy. I realized that if I do not do it, NOBODY Will. 90% the St Maarten population are left in the Dark because official business is conducted in Dutch and Papiamentu. Even if they speak Dutch, most don’t know how to find the info. They like it that way…. Ignorance is bliss. Here is where I come in. I get up most mornings at around 4.am. I translate all info to English, and post. I do this for the people who want to know. Most of my family on the French side or abroad do not speak Dutch or Papiamentu. I do it for them too.
I want to see you go to the Chinese grocer to steal a bread. When the police show up and cuff you, demand your independence! They will lock your Black ass up, and throw away the key…. for a piece of bread. Grisha Marten, the avaricious, empty headed, jump up Gold digger, does NOT represent me. Solange Duncan, spawn of the most criminal Justice Minister EVER to represent St Maarten, does NOT represent me. Christopher Emmanuel, the land thief, fresh out of jail, STILL under investigation, does NOT represent me. Toontje Buncamper, fresh out the trap house, fresh, new investigation, does NOT represent me. More importantly… they do NOT represent 90% of St Maarteners! Nothing more dangerous than when you mix stupidity with greed. Was there a Vote? A referendum? When did St Maarten decide all of this… More importantly……WHO DA FCK IS GRISHA MARTEN? The wife of a criminal, who came from a long line of criminals dating back to the 1950’s. These are the people who have kept St Maarteners too impoverished, weak and afraid to stand up as they looted HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS FOR DECADES. THEY ARE KEEPING ST MAARTEN IN POVERTY… NOT HOLLAND. You can call Holland racist but all they do is SEND money. All our government does is STEAL money. We are not a democracy, we are a kleptocracy. ONLY THIEVES ARE RUNNING GOVERNMENT IN SXM!
I’m just getting warmed up. Let me get my coffee and my sidekick, because this might take all day. This is just a sampler. You are lucky I am not in government. The first thing I would do is write up legislation to arrest every last one of government and keep them in a lobster trap until their trial. If they make it, they make it… If they don’t, at least the lobsters were well fed… Tbc..
Answers to questions: 1) MP Christopher Emmanuel is asking what the hold up is with MP Rolando Brison Minister’s confirmation. Dear Chris, it is not a hold up, it is a CANCELLATION. They just have not told you yet. They are stringing you along, telling you that it is the Governor…it is NOT. 2) You might have been assured a Ministry, Christopher, to loot some more coffers, but that was before you turned on Silveria and your party. 3) Rolando had been assured that he had passed screening, and he did. Until he turned on Silveria and threatened to bring down government if there was no carnival. Suddenly additional information was handed to Mr Richardson, to give to the screeners. #FAIL! 4) Every Maco in the St Maarten government who lunches with Corallo ends up in jail. Frans, Silvio, Theo… Yet, here you are Rolando, on camera, an Island Government Representative, lunching with the mafia! Broad daylight too! 5) Grisha is blabbing and Silveria is staying quiet, because Silveria has a brain, and Grisha does not. 6) Here is a basic lesson in marriage and community property, Ms. Grisha… when you married Theo, he was robbing the poor St Maarteners of hundreds of millions and pocketing millions everytime a contract was signed. Those were your millions too. Now, the theft has been uncovered. Your husband was busted and imprisoned. His $17 Million dollar debt, THAT is YOUR debt too.
HE WILL HAVE TO PAY EVERYTHING BACK plus restitution. When you married the money you also married his legal cost, lawyer bills, court costs, restitution and debt. I hope they take monthly payments, Ms. Marten 7) Grisha will accomplish her mission of publicly shaming the Dutch… for a sec, but she cannot win the long game. 8) According to Theo’s people, he is against this. It’s Rolando leading her to jail. 9) Since 2009, all I’ve seen are SXM politicians who were smarter than everyone else, going to jail. 10) St Maarten does not have lengthy jail sentences for white collar crime, so what Holland does is suck them dry. Lawyer fees, court cost, restitution, the works. 11) St Maarten has politicians commiting crimes, because they don’t mind serving a little time for a few million dollars. While you are serving your time, your lawyers will be spending that money. And you will be getting nothing but horns while you are gone. Isn’t that right, Theo? Theo Heyliger can expect to be in and out of Court for the next 20 years or so. Additional charges, new investigations, that is what Grisha, you married into. 12) If there was a clean, intelligent group going after and calling out the Dutch, I would fully support that. But there isn’t. IT’s Madame Deficit, and her side kick, Monsieur Embezzler. 13a) Imagine you lend your friend in need money, when pay back day comes, they tell you that they want their independence.
13b) Your friend wants the 17 MILLION you stole from them, you run to the papers and call them racists. Yes they are racist, but your husband is also a THIEF! PAY BACK ALL THE MILLIONS Y’ALL STOLE! Then we can talk emancipation, decolonization…colonoscopy… Whatever you like. 14) All those millions Theo stole, could not fix your teeth, shave down those camel gums of yours. Grinning your buck teeth in my face, like I’m the one. 15) Good luck in Miami when you head to those secret accounts to retrieve all that money. 16) According to sources, those hidden millions in Miami is the reason a certain female politician could not run on UP slate last year. 17) They will follow the money, the Swift codes, the wire transaction Numbers. 18) All you rich bitches believing that your offshore bank accounts are safe. They are NOT. Think Panama Papers, the Luxembourg Papers that incriminated Ansary at Mullet Bay, and more. All it takes is one disgruntled hacker, to disappear that cash, so I hope you and hubby buried it in the sand somewhere. St Maarten has 37 beaches… 19) If you slapped someone, and they offered you a plate of food, would you eat it? 20) Grisha back handed Knops all across the Atlantic, and Knops responded with a 15.2 Million Euro plate of food. You know when you take your Child out in public, and they start embarrasing you and acting the fool? They want this and that, and they want it NOW!?!! Times have changed, you are no longer allowed to flog your children in public, and everybody’s watching you. What can you do but smile? And give them whatever they want in PUBLIC…. But wait til you get home.
