The leaders of the Curaçao political parties MFK and PNP signed a coalition agreement on Friday. The most important part of the agreement: ensuring that Curaçao gets out of the crisis in which it now finds itself due to the corona virus. The parties called on the population for unity and cooperation.
The two sides are the big winners of the parliamentary elections on March 19. Together they have 13 of the 21 seats in the new parliament, which will be installed on May 11. Citizens’ well-being is central to the coalition agreement, they emphasize.
The current caretaker government of Curaçao signed an agreement with the Netherlands at the end of last year on the establishment of a Caribbean Body for Reform and Development (COHO), with the Netherlands guaranteeing money for the coming years. That body has yet to be established, but the upcoming Curaçao government wants to renegotiate this.
The leaders of MFK and PNP this week sent a letter to the parliaments of the Netherlands, Aruba and St. Maarten in which they announce their plans and state that they want to engage the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF should “create, guide and monitor” a reform program for Curaçao.
Cooperation with the IMF offers, according to the MFK and PNP, thanks to years of experience, a greater guarantee that Curaçao can emerge from the deep economic valley than the establishment of a new body. The coalition wants to discuss this with outgoing State Secretary for Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops. In recent weeks, delegations from the PNP and MFK have already spoken virtually with Knops about their policy plans More Insight
To the President of the House of Representatives of the States General
At the end of 2020, an agreement was reached with the autonomous countries of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten (hereinafter: the countries) regarding the country packages, in which reforms were agreed. This with the aim of strengthening the financial, economic, institutional and social resilience of the countries in such a way that the countries will be better able to independently absorb external shocks, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, in the future. As a condition for receiving the necessary liquidity support for the countries, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten must implement these reforms.
On March 26, the National Council of Ministers (RMR) discussed the liquidity support to Aruba and Curaçao for the period April – June 2021. The liquidity requirement is determined quarterly after advice from the Board of (Aruba) financial supervision (C (A) ft). discussed the RMR. Your House has already been informed by letter about the results. In the same letter, I informed you that the RMR has been holding on to decision-making on the fifth tranche of liquidity support for Sint Maarten, until clarification has been obtained as to whether the States of Sint Maarten support the COHO bill and the associated national package.
As explained below, I have now received sufficient confirmation with regard to the available support from the States of Sint Maarten for the national package and the process towards the realization of the COHO Act. This allowed decision-making on the fifth tranche of liquidity support to Sint Maarten.
United Nations petition As known to the House of Representatives, the Choharis Law Group has submitted a petition to the Special Rapporteur Racism and the United Nations (UN) Working Group of experts on people of African Descent. The petition targets alleged ongoing acts of racial discrimination and alleged human rights violations by the Kingdom of the Netherlands against the residents of Sint Maarten. Specifically, the process around the COVID is related
liquidity support and the establishment of the COHO seen as contrary to international human rights and racist.
The content of the petition submitted cannot be reconciled with the previously expressed support of the States of Sint Maarten for the national package and the process towards the realization of the COHO Act. In this context, the RMR once again requested Sint Maarten on March 26 to provide clarification regarding the support of Parliament for the national package and the process towards the realization of the COHO Act. This in relation to the petition submitted to the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations.
Reaffirmation Aid States On April 16 last I received a letter from the chairman of the States of Sint Maarten, in which he, after advice and permission from the Parliament, once again expresses his continued support for the national package and the path towards the realization of the COHO Act. This letter also discusses the relationship of the aforementioned support to the petition submitted, as requested by the RMR on March 26. The President of the States indicates that the petition requests nine so-called remedies and that none of these remedies pertain to the process towards the realization of the COHO Act.
Although the petition is difficult to reconcile with an earlier agreement on the country package and the creation of a reform entity such as the COHO, the RMR considers the confirmation of support sufficiently clear to continue the trajectory for liquidity support. The following passage in particular is decisive in this respect: “[…] as I affirm in this letter, the Parliament of Sint Maarten supports the legal trajectory towards the establishment of a reform entity as agreed upon by the Prime Minister and the Government of the Netherlands on December 22, 2020. ”
In addition, the letter states that neither the petition nor the memorandum of law are against this process and that nothing from the petition and / or the memorandum of law should be interpreted a contrario. With regard to the apparent contradiction implicit in the petition in relation to the support for the process, the chairman writes that the passages in which an explicit request is made to stop the process towards COHO in the light of the draft bill as it must be presented at the time. view. Now, following the advice of the Council of State, an AASXM Government Docs
When a suitable proposal is drawn up, the passages mentioned are outdated.
According to the statement of the President of Parliament, the emphasis should be on the remedies from the petition and not on the conclusion in the memorandum of law. In addition, the conclusion refers to a draft bill for the COHO Act that is already outdated in view of the advice of the Council of State.
The above provides sufficient clarification with regard to the necessary continuous support from the States of Sint Maarten for the national package and the process towards the realization of the COHO Act.
Decision-making on liquidity support Now that both the government and the States have reconfirmed their support, the RMR has been able to decide on the liquidity support for the second quarter of 2021. The Cft has estimated the liquidity needs of Sint Maarten at ANG 39 million for the second quarter of 2021. The RMR has on the basis of this advice, decided to proceed with the provision of the fifth tranche of ANG 39 million liquidity support, at the moment that Sint Maarten has signed the first implementation agenda.
The budgetary consequences of this fifth tranche are presented to you in an incidental supplementary budget law. Normally, new policy is implemented after the States General has authorized the Budget Act. As the postponement of the provision of the fifth tranche of liquidity support cannot wait until the formal authorization of both Houses of the States General, the cabinet will distribute this tranche to Sint Maarten in the second quarter of 2021. This acts in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 2.27 of the Government Accounts Act 2016.
Implementation agenda At the official level, work was done on formulating the first implementation agenda for Sint Maarten during the period from 22 December to mid-March. The implementation agenda sets out concrete steps arising from the measures agreed between the Netherlands and Sint Maarten.
The implementation agenda had to be signed by the Netherlands and Sint Maarten before April 1, on the basis of Article 3 of the mutual arrangement land package between the Netherlands and Sint Maarten of 22 December last. Due to the lack of a decision on the allocation of the fifth tranche of liquidity support, the Prime Minister of Sint Maarten has indicated that he will not sign the implementation agenda. Signing the implementation agenda after all is conditional for the award of the fifth tranche of liquidity support.
Country package progress The period between the agreement of the mutual arrangement on December 22, and the realization of the implementation agenda was primarily dominated by getting to know the departments on both sides of the ocean, setting up working groups and consultation structures, making working agreements. and formulating joint action plans. At the same time, the conditions letters for the second, third and fourth tranche of liquidity support formulated deadlines with which Sint Maarten had to comply.
Sint Maarten has now complied with the vast majority of the agreements laid down in the conditions letters linked to the second, third and fourth tranche of liquidity support. For example, the national ordinances regarding cost-saving measures were published on March 18 and 19. In addition, with regard to the measures associated with theme D: Financial Sector, the IMF investigation into the financial sector and its supervisory system have been completed. Recommendations arising from this are included in the implementation agenda.
Filling in the preconditions for the implementation of the measures sometimes took more time than anticipated. In these cases, and in the event that Sint Maarten cannot be blamed for a deadline not being (fully) met, the relevant deadlines for measures have been adjusted and / or reformulated in the implementation agenda.
This applies, for example, to measure C.4, which concerns the modernization of the Tax and Customs Administration on Sint Maarten. From various conversations between the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance on Sint Maarten, a picture emerges that useful investigations have already been carried out in this regard and a general investigation is not indicated. A few less comprehensive studies and / or inventories of specific subjects will suffice. The implementation agenda therefore includes a new deadline for C.4 for an action plan for this first phase of measure C.4. With regard to measure B.15, the corporate governance of the airport, a workable decision has now been taken by the Council of Ministers of Sint Maarten. The stipulated condition has thus been met and there is now a way forward for this measure, for which follow-up steps are included in the first u
implementation agenda. Sufficient progress is therefore being made with regard to these measures.
Nevertheless, there is one measure from the condition letters that Sint Maarten has not yet complied with. This condition that has not been (fully) fulfilled concerns:
To promote reconstruction (Trust Fund), Sint Maarten is present 25 January 2021 effective measures to enable the processing of applications (work and residence permits) from foreign self-employed persons and employees on behalf of NRPB and broader within one month after submission, and inform the TWO in writing about this.
The National Decree has been signed by the Governor. The legislation is expected to be enacted in the near future.
Despite the fact that this condition has not yet been (fully) met, Sint Maarten has made a strong effort to implement this condition and the first visible results have been achieved. In general, a positive start has been made with the implementation of the country package.
Finally The implementation agenda for the second quarter of 2021 will be signed shortly. You will then be informed about the content of the implementation agenda.
Your House will receive enclosed the Assessment Framework for Risk Schemes Central Government Liquidity Support fifth tranche to Sint Maarten.
The State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations,
If you are clicking back for updates, full Court Transcripts are being added below. Sources will be cited in chronological order below. In the Dutch Court System, everything is completely anonymous when Court transcripts are published, so as I am collating all available info, I am also going through years of anonymous court transcripts, written in legalese, Chaucer Dutch. Everything has to be converted, then translated. I will also post the PDF of court transcripts. Kristensen, it seems has been trying to scrub all content from the internet, but there are ways.
The definitive history and biography of Pedo Colin Kristensen for the Redditors, and everyone else out there. This blog will be strictly fact based, with verifiable links to sources. Documents etc…
Interpol is now active in extradition of this predator back to St Maarten. Aggregating the latest info and Updates. Please be patient, there is a lot to upload here and at sister sites….this blog is being edited, updated and is UNFINISHED, contact 721 527 6730 for additions and corrections. NOBODY wants to spend their weekend in the Caribbean collating and translating incestuous pedo info. Click back, by tomorrow, all court transcripts should be up.
In order to do an ‘Epstein’, you need to buy the local government and authorities. If you are bribing the Prime Minister’s bodyguard, police officer Jerry Gerardus, and she is covering for him, the way he covered for her crimes, you might get away with raping your own 6 year old… again and again and again. Do not forget he was busted with 1000’s of images and videos, and RELEASED back into the St Maarten streets, to prey on more victims. The officer even forged documents… but we are getting ahead of ourselves.
2018: 3 years requested for police officer Jerry Gerardus suspected of theft and embezzlement.http://Officer Jerry Gerardus
PHILIPSBURG:— The Public Prosecutor’s Office has requested a 3-year prison sentence for police officer J.V.G. The Public Prosecutor’s Office has also requested the Court of First Instance to prohibit J.V.G. from working as a civil servant for a period of 5 years.
The investigation WHALE conducted by the National Detectives has resulted in the prosecution of J.V.G. Jerry Gerardus (43) and Colin Kristensen C.K. (33) for the following charges.
J.V.G.: theft of diamonds, cut stone, or jewelry and embezzling proceeds of the sale, bribery in service as a police officer, forgery and breach of confidently.
The case against co-suspect C.K. has been postponed until November 21, 2018, at 2:00 pm. C.K. is suspected of stealing diamonds, cut stone or jewelry, accepting bribes from a police officer and inciting forgery.
The Public Prosecutor emphasized during the court hearing on Wednesday, October 17th, 2018, that attention should be placed on the fact that this case unraveled after a concerned citizen filed an official complaint. “This person should be complimented, because of their complaint various investigations have been launched and subsequently disclosing the truth. The safety of Sint Maarten is a case for everyone, not just the Public Prosecutor’s Office and investigation services.”
The Public Prosecutor has requested to prosecute J.V.G. for embezzling the sale of fake and real diamonds. “What’s alarming is that the suspect in service as a police officer happened to become in possession of some diamonds after hurricane Irma. The guilt is not based on whether the diamonds were real or not.”
The Public Prosecutor also asked to convict J.V.G. for bribery of a 3 year period. “The WHALE investigation has revealed that suspect C.K. had regular contact with police officer J.V.G. and gave J.V.G. money, friendship, all expenses paid vacations and other things. In return J.V.G. provided C.K. with confidential information about ongoing investigations. This is already sufficient for a bribery conviction.”
Moreover, J.V.G. is guilty as a police officer for sharing confidential information about ongoing investigations with suspect C.K. It can be alleged that J.V.G. was bribed to provide C.K. with information about cases in which C.K. was a victim or suspect during the period of 2015 to 2018.
C.K. bribed J.V.G. to write a false report, which the Prosecutor’s Office finds a serious offense. “The accuracy of official reports is vital. We must be able to rely on law enforcement.”
“Further it is also documented in the defendant’s file that background investigations were or were intended to be carried out for a fee. This is what the Public Prosecutor’s Office considers unwelcomed extracurricular activities for a police officer on Sint Maarten. However this is not a chargeable criminal offense,” The Public Prosecutor pointed out.
“Bribing a police officer and investigating detective is a serious offence, but the role of J.V.G. is more incriminatory. J.V.G. worked for the Afdeling Zware Criminaliteit of the Sint Maarten Police Force (KPSM). This department conducts the big investigations. Consequently an already pending case was postponed in order to carry out further investigation.
“With regard to this investigation, the Public Prosecution does not see any malicious intent on the part of the accused J.V.G., but the Public Prosecution was forced to do an extra investigation in order to dismiss doubts. The suspect has compromised trust in St. Maarten’s law enforcement.
“At the time of arrest the accused J.V.G. was working as a policy advisor in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister. Because no legal measures have yet been taken against J.V.G. by Country St. Maarten, I will also request to prohibit the defendant from working as a civil servant for a period of 5 years.”
The judge will close the case against J.V.G. on November 21, 2018. A decision on the case against J.V.G. and C.K. will presumably be rendered 3 weeks later.
Prosecutor’s Office Press Release
Colin Kristensen Was Protected by Prime Minister Leona Marlin’s Inner Circle
JERRY GERARDUS 2019: SZV Doctor threatened after she refused to backdate documents for convict associated with PM Romeo Marlin.
APRIL 18 2019: A doctor working for the Social Insurance Bank, SZV was threatened if she did not comply with the requests of the Prime Minister of St. Maarten Leona Romeo Marlin and backdate certain documents that will benefit convicted detective Jerry Gerardus. According to the well-placed source, Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin instructed the Director of SZV Glen Carty to have the documents backdated for Gerardus who is currently on sick leave (A/O) but is still receiving his government salary even though convicted.
Jerry Gerardus was an advisor to the Prime Minister prior to his arrest on July 4th, 2018. Gerardus had to remain in pre-trial detention until his court date. However, the stained police officer fell ill while in pretrial detention and had to be released on special conditions. The source said the SZV control doctor refused to commit the fraud and forgery and as such she was threatened. It is not clear if the documents were doctored after the threats were made. On October 19th, 2018 the Prosecution requested 3-years prison sentence for Gerardus who was charged with theft and embezzlement.
Details on the charges are as follows: theft of diamonds, cut stone, or jewelry and embezzling proceeds of the sale, bribery in service as a police officer, forgery and breach of confidently. More on the Prosecution case against Gerardus can be found here
While the dirty cop had several brushes with the law while working in the Police Force of St. Maarten only in 2018 actions such as charges and prosecution was ever brought against Gerardus. At the time he was working in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Leona Romeo Marlin, while in detention the Prime Minister is the one that met several times with the Attorney representing Jerry Gerardus compromising the integrity of the cabinet of the Prime Minister. Besides meeting with Gerardus Attorney Romeo Marlin allegedly went to the Philipsburg Police Station and created a commotion there when Gerardus was in custody.
It is further alleged that was not the first time the Prime Minister tried to use the power of her office to interfere with judicial proceedings. On February 13th, 2019 the Court of First Instance handed down its decision on the WHALE investigation whereby Jerry Gerardus was convicted to 3 years in prison while he was banned from holding any position in the Korps Politie for a period of 8 years
While the Court of First Instance pronounced its decision the Prosecutor’s Office is yet to make the decision of the Court public while the published decisions of the Court have been manipulated in order to save the face of the justice system. It is should also be known that Gerardus has been in the pockets of several business people where it is alleged, that he was leaking information regarding criminal investigations.
Besides that, Gerardus has been the pockets of several persons and has used the office of the Police to threaten several persons. Some employees of Government-owned company GEBE has had their share of harassment and threat from the stained cop who is a friend of GEBE Internal Auditor and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SZV Sharine Daniel.
It should be noted that Jerry Gerardus has been convicted so is Regina Labega and both persons are still working in the cabinet of Ministers and Prime Minister while other civil servants have become targets if they were even questioned by police or suspected of committing any type of crime. The UD/ SMCP coalition government seems to think that the people of St. Maarten and those in the outer world are not taking notes on their flip-flopping when it comes to matters of integrity. Government chooses to go against the principles of good governance, integrity and the LMA to keep their cronies on the government payroll and in office. Bear in mind, the Public Relations Officer for the Minister of TEATT Stuart Johnson and Perry Geerlings was also convicted in his native country St. Kitts for murder/ manslaughter.
While the people of St. Maarten seem to understand and have accepted the modus operandi of the UD/ SMCP Government the very people are still wondering what the point of views of the Dutch Government regarding matters of integrity are and if they have raised any concerns with the country’s Chief Minister. Did the Dutch Government use their power to silence the Prosecutor’s Office and the Court of First Instance on releasing the Courts Verdict that was rendered on February 13th, 2019?
The very Dutch Government have been using microscopic lenses to target certain politicians and high ranking business people on St. Maarten however, they seem to have some type of agreement with the current Government of St. Maarten since they have allowed these blatant integrity breaches to continue even though the former Government were forced to accept their conditions for the Recovery Funds, one being the Integrity Chamber. Is there an agreement with the Council of Ministers of St. Maarten and the Dutch Government regarding matters of integrity especially since the present COM have to decide to sell the assets of the country to the Dutch Government one being the Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIAE) in order for them to take over supervisory and management of the Government-owned company for it secure a loan through the World Bank and the European Investment Bank are only some of the questions that are being asked.
Colin Kristensen is more than St Maarten’s Jeffrey Epstein, he is a million times worse, he prefers toddlers, even his own, and if you think that’s bad, understand he is NOT in prison, has not been for while, and has no intentions of being punished for his crimes. After posting to various platforms that he was fighting extradition, I I realized very few people knew who he was or his evil deeds. The reason I will spend the afternoon compuling this blog is because when I tried getting info and links to share, I realized info on him was almost non existent. There is very little info about this guy because he spent a lot of money, covering his tracks. Another factor us that no sane person wants to write about or research pedophiles. Many contacted me about Colin, like Jeffrey Epstein he loved St Maarten, a pedo friendly country. I cannot write a complete blog about Colin Kristensen without dedicating a section to the St Maarten police and authorities who take money from convicted Child rapist to allow them to destroy more lives
Colin Kristensen spent a lot of money and time to keep his name out of the blogs and press. While every authority has been playing checkers with a depraved Child rapist, he has been playing a long game… chess. Although he believes he has scrubbed the internet ,if you dig it is still there.
The facts are way more horrifying than my opinions, trust me. This is more than a blog about a prolific child child predator, it is also about a Justice system in the Caribbean that you can pay to make ANYTHING go away. https://smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-martin-news/6447-detective-claims-he-was-a-victim-in-credit-card-scam-says-his-superiors-did-not-tell-him-he-was-under-investigation-jerry-gerardus-stolen-credit-card-was-used-to-purchase-tickets.html
Pedophile Colin Kristensen used St Maarten as his base, his playground to rape children, including his own 6 year old daughter. He used his daughter in his own homemade porn along with her little friends to be shared and redistributed in the underground pedophile community. When he was busted, thousands of images of children, babies, toddlers being used in graphic porn was found.
Colin Kristensen (59) PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Everything started with the case of Colin Kristensen, a 59-year- old Scotsman, who was arrested for possession of child porn and for sexual assault on several minors. UPDATE #2: Detective Gerardus officially arrested for stolen jewelry – ilandvibez.com
Colin Kristensen (59)
PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Everything started with the case of Colin Kristensen, a 59-year- old Scotsman, who was arrested for possession of child porn and for sexual assault on several minors.
His crimes were allegedly committed between May and December 2017.
There is a pending court case against Kristensen for the possession of child porn and for sexual assault on several minors.
The defendant is currently detained at the Pointe Blanche prison. The case first appeared in court on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Kristensen, who had the bottom part of his left leg amputated, appeared on crutches in the courtroom.
The case was subsequently postponed until May 30, 2018.
On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, the case came to court again as was scheduled earlier in March after its initial postponement. On May 30, the Court in First Instance moved the child porn and sexual assault trial against Kristensen to Wednesday, September 19, 2018.
Further charges against Kristensen that came to light were possession of a Molotov cocktail and cocaine and fencing jewelry.
Information reaching 721news roomreport that from the investigation of this porn case the “WHALE” case was born. The suspect Kristensen gave a statement that the jewelry he was fencing belonged to Detective Gerardus and other accomplices.
The investigation team then split the case and started with the one called “Whale,” since the beginning of this year they have questioned different persons of interest in this particular case.
On Tuesday, July 3, 2018 in the early morning hours, the investigating team consisting of Lands Recherché, RST, Prosecutor’s Office and the Judge of Instruction moved in on two locations. One was the home of detective Jerry Gerardus located across Zo Zo Moran Road in Cole Bay, and the other was at an apartment complex on Wellington Road.
According to the Public Prosecutor, the suspect Jerry Gerardus is allegedly accused of being bribed, forging documents and breach of confidentiality.
The investigating team is also looking to see if the jewelry may have come from possible past armed robberies on jewelry stores.
At the moment of his arrest, Gerardus was not working for the Police force, but was executing his duty as Advisor to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister.
The prosecutor said more arrests are possible.
The Public Prosecutor issued a Press Release, which you can read below:
Police Officer J.L.V.G., (42), a member of staff in the cabinet of the Prime Minister of Sint Maarten, was arrested this morning, as suspect in the WHALE investigation.
This investigation is led by the National Detectives, with assistance from the Police Force of Sint Maarten and Customs, and overseen by the Public Prosecutor’s Office. A search was carried out at a residence in Cole Bay this morning.
J.L.V.G. is suspected of being bribed, forging documents and breach of confidentiality. J.L.V.G. remains in restrictive custody. More arrests are possible.
Original Article on 721news.com
IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN CONTACT THE POLICE TO ASK THEM WHY THIS MAN IS FREE
Colin Kristensen – Glasgow
December 2020
One-legged paedo diamond thief on the run to Scotland ‘to get fake leg fixed’
A one-legged paedophile diamond thief wanted in the Caribbean has fled to Scotland after claiming he needed to get his false limb fixed.
Predator Colin Kristensen has refused to return to the billionaires’ playground of Sint Maarten where he was convicted of abusing a six-year-old girl and looting jewels as part of a corruption scandal that rocked the West Indian paradise island.
The 62-year-old expat is back on the streets of Glasgow claiming he needs to stay on for medical treatment. But authorities in the Dutch territory have now issued a warrant for his arrest and alerted Interpol in a bid to haul him back to face justice.
Police Scotland swooped to put him on the sex offenders’ register to limit the danger he poses to children here while extradition papers are prepared.
A source close to the case said: “His crimes prove just what a devious, dangerous and morally bankrupt individual Kristensen is. I’d imagine Scotland will be quite glad to get rid of him. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-spiteri-81189bb7
“Every time he is supposed to be back in Sint Maarten, another excuse is rolled out. The suspicion is he has no intention of ever returning and doing his time.
“The court gave Kristensen the benefit of the doubt in allowing him to leave for Scotland for medical treatment but patience has run out. If he won’t come back of his own accord, he’ll be dragged back kicking and screaming.”
Kristensen ran a yachting technology supply company called Advanced Marine Systems with bases in Florida and Sint Maarten – which is one half of a Caribbean isle split in two between France and Holland.Home to 40,000 people, it is a hotspot for the mega-rich.
In 2015, Kristensen received a suspended sentence for Tasering his ex-wife’s new boyfriend but further claims of child abuse were made and police began an investigation.
He started bribing senior cop Jerry Gerardus – an adviser to the isle’s prime minister – with money and holidays in return for information about the inquiries.
The bent officer also forged a document to try to put the paedophile in the clear. But their web of corruption began to unravel in the wake of Hurricane Irma in September 2017, which left a £2billion trail of devastation.
Police were tipped off that the day after the island was left in ruins, the pair had conspired to steal diamonds from the rubble of a jeweller’s shop. The haul turned out to be fake.
Gerardus – who subsequently received a three-year sentence – was busted in July 2018 and Kristensen was lifted days later.
The sex offender was jailed for seven years in February 2019 for abusing the girl, distributing child porn images of his victim and other unidentified girls and fencing the faux jewels. He was also locked up for bribery and another Taser assault.
Kristensen denied the offences from 2015 to 2017 but admitted a further charge of possessing cocaine. He lodged an appeal but remained behind bars until December 2019 when jail doctors diagnosed him with a slipped disc, which had been made worse by his homemade false leg.
The predator was given a five-month free pass from jail to jet to Scotland for spinal surgery and a new false limb – but he failed to return. Police Scotland were alerted to the paedophile’s presence and won an order from Glasgow Sheriff Court in August, forcing him to join the sex offenders’ register.
He was granted a deadline extension till last month to return to jail in the Caribbean.But Sint Maarten courts ran out of patience at the latest hearing, via videolink, on December 11.
Kristensen’s appeal is due to be heard in April. https://uk-database.net/2021/01/03/colin-kristensen-glasgow/
Predator Colin Kristensen has refused to return to the billionaires’ playground of Sint Maarten where he was convicted of abusing a six-year-old girl and looting jewels as part of a corruption scandal that rocked the West Indian paradise island.null
The 62-year-old expat is back on the streets of Glasgow claiming he needs to stay on for medical treatment. But authorities in the Dutch territory have now issued a warrant for his arrest and alerted Interpol in a bid to haul him back to face justice.
PHILIPSBURG–Although previously ordered by the Joint Court of Justice to be in St. Maarten for Tuesday’s hearing, convicted sex offender Collin Kristensen (62) has defied the authority of law enforcement, showing up for his day in appeal court via video conference from the relative safety of Scotland.
In February 2019, the Court of First Instance sentenced Kristensen to seven years in prison for many crimes, including the sexual abuse of his then-six-year-old daughter; the possession, production, and distribution of child pornography; fencing a number of looted diamonds in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in September 2017; mistreatment with a Taser gun; bribery of a police officer; and possession of a quantity of cocaine.
The judge also ordered the execution of a three-month suspended sentence for a previous crime.
Kristensen – who is of Scottish/Danish descent – appealed the lower court’s verdict, as he pled guilty only to the cocaine possession charge. The child pornography charge concerned both videos and photographs of his own daughter and other unknown children.
After roughly 16 months in prison – which included his time in pre-trial detention – the Joint Court temporarily lifted his detention for “urgent” medical reasons.
While in prison, Kristensen was diagnosed with a herniated disc in his lower back and his condition was aggravated by a “homemade” prosthesis on his left leg. Kristensen claimed he would require highly specialised surgery to his spine which is not available in the Dutch Caribbean.
In December 2020, the Joint Court ordered him to return for Tuesday’s hearing, and even allowed the Prosecutor’s Office to pursue extradition. However, there had been no extradition in the five months since this hearing.
The Joint Court said at the time that Kristensen had not made sufficient efforts to obtain treatment and had failed to provide clarity about his medical condition, which was mainly based on his own words and not supported by medical certificates from doctors, physical therapists, or suppliers of prosthetic limbs.
On Tuesday, Kristensen told the Court that his medical treatment has been continuously delayed because British hospitals are currently not conducting elective surgery due to being overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. He also said British travel restrictions prohibited him from travelling abroad.
The attorney-general requested that the three-judge panel of the Joint Court reinstate Kristensen’s detention, saying he had contacted authorities in Scotland to begin the process of extradition.
The attorney-general said Kristensen has continuously acted “in bad faith,” clearly showing that he does not respect the judicial system. “He makes his own rules, as can be seen today,” the attorney-general said. “He does not intend to return.”
As for Kristensen’s argument that he could not travel from Scotland because of coronavirus-related restrictions, the attorney-general said attending trials in foreign countries is one of the reasons the United Kingdom (UK) accepts as essential travel.
Kristensen’s lawyer Sjamira Roseburg opposed the extradition request and the reinstatement of detention. She told the court that her client had finally been able to secure medical appointments after long coronavirus-related delays. She also argued that video conference should be seen as an acceptable method of continuing the case.
The attorney-general argued that Kristensen keeps claiming that he has made medical appointments, but he is yet to submit documentation of this. “It is too late,” said the attorney-general.
After a 10-minute deliberation, the three-judge panel ruled that Kristensen’s detention will be reinstated and ordered the Prosecutor’s Office to file an extradition claim with Scottish authorities.
Co-defendant Jerry-Lee Valentino Gerardus (45) – the police officer Kristensen had bribed – was physically present for Tuesday’s hearing. Like Kristensen, Gerardus’ detention was suspended for medical reasons; in his case, when he suffered cerebral haemorrhage in August 2018, before he had been convicted.
Gerardus is still ill, telling the judges on Tuesday that he is scheduled to travel to Panama in September for medical treatment.
In February 2019, the former St. Maarten police officer was found guilty of providing Kristensen with forged and back-dated police reports in exchange for airline tickets and other gifts. He was also
found guilty of helping Kristensen fence the diamonds.
For his crimes, Gerardus was sentenced to three years in prison and an eight-year prohibition on performing the duties of a police officer.
The next hearing in this appeal case is scheduled for July 14. On this day, if extradition is successful, Kristen will be led before the three judges in handcuffs.
Published: 06 August 2011Philipsburg Detective Jerry Gerardus claims he is a victim in the ongoing investigation of fraud and embezzlement that is being conducted by the St. Maarten Police Department. Gerardus in an interview with SMN News on Saturday said he was surprised when he read on SMN News that he was under investigation when he is the one who notified his superiors of his predicament with Jet Blue on July 13 2011. “I was shocked to learn that Internal Affairs is investigating me and no one informed me of it” Gerardus said. Detective Gerardus said that he was never held by the US Border Control as was reported last week. “All that transpired happened at the check-in point, there was no police or Border Control involved in this issue. I am the one who filed a complaint when I returned to St. Maarten for embezzlement which was on July 15th 2011.” He said on July 13th, he along with his three children and sister in law approached Jet Blue Airline to check-in as they were in the USA on vacation but when he approached the agent he was informed that the family’s tickets were cancelled. The detective said that he was shocked to learn that his tickets were cancelled since his intention was to spend seven days in the United States and to return to St. Maarten. Gerardus said the Jet Blue agent told him that the person who purchased the tickets with a credit card is the one who cancelled the tickets. The agent he said further informed him that he had to purchase new tickets to return to St. Maarten. He said at that point he informed the agent that he did not use any credit card to purchase his tickets. He further explained that his sister in law gave a lady the monies to purchase the tickets since this person told his sister in law that she has contact with Jet Blue and could obtain tickets at reduced prices. “While I was at the Airport and I was confronted with this problem I began questioning my sister in law about the person she gave the money to buy the tickets.” Gerardus further explained that he then asked the ticketing agent to print out the tickets for him so that he can query it. “When I was given the tickets, I noticed that the price for each ticket was different and they were purchased with different credit cards, at that point I realize something was wrong so I asked to speak with one of the Jet Blue supervisors who made contact with Jet Blue manager on St. Maarten. I also informed Jet Blue agents that I am a detective and I will launch an investigation into the matter. At that point, Jet Blue offered me an office and they allowed me to make as many calls I wanted to clear up the matter and to obtain new tickets for me and my family to travel back to St. Maarten.” Gerardus said his wife had to purchase new tickets for them to return home. “I also called the chief of Simpson Bay Police Outpost Mr. Barnabella since I could not reach Detective Krips by phone. Barnebella connected me to Krips and Denise Jacobs, I informed my superiors of the incident. I also provided all the information that was on the tickets so that they could launch an investigation to see if there was fraud going on at the Airline.” Gerardus said when he returned to St. Maarten on July 15th 2011 he filed an official complaint for embezzlement with the detective department against the lady his sister in law gave the money. He further explained that he has no update on the case. Gerardus said he also does not know if anyone filed a complaint about their stolen credit card which would allow the Detective Department to investigate. In the meantime, Chief of Police Peter De Witte confirmed that the investigation is ongoing to determine what role detective Gerardus played in the purchasing of the tickets.
The Netherlands caves to Sint Maarten’s demands. Full article below. More insight: The Netherlands Caves to Sint Maarten’s demands The site is currently under construction, but test postings are being published. More Knops: Back Story
The Hague – The National Council of Ministers (RMR) last week approved the fifth tranche of liquidity support for Sint Maarten. For the second quarter of 2021, Sint Maarten will receive 39 million guilders. This is evident from a decision published only yesterday.
According to State Secretary Raymond Knops of Kingdom Relations, the States of Sint Maarten have given sufficient clarity about the support for the agreement concluded in December on the establishment of the Caribbean Body for Reform and Development (COHO). Earlier, the RMR suspended its support because the States have filed a petition with the United Nations against the colonial and racist behavior of the Netherlands. “The content of the petition submitted cannot be reconciled with the previously expressed support of the States of Sint Maarten for the national package and the process towards the realization of the Coho Act”, says Knops. On April 16, Parliament once again expressed support for the agreement. According to this letter, the petition is not directed against Coho. “The chairman of the States indicates that the petition requests nine so-called remedies and that none of these remedies relates to the process towards the realization of the Coho Act.” The Secretary of State hints that he is not fully convinced of this interpretation, because the petition is “difficult to reconcile” with the agreement on the creation of the COHO and the country package. But he is satisfied with this passage from the letter: ,, (…) as I affirm in this letter, the Parliament of Sint Maarten supports the legal trajectory towards the establishment of a reform entity as agreed upon by the Prime Minister and the Government of the Netherlands on December 22, 2020. ”
According to the States, the passage demanding that the establishment of Coho be discontinued was directed against the draft proposal at the time. “Now that an amended proposal is being drawn up on the basis of the advice of the Council of State, the passages mentioned have become obsolete.” That is enough for Knops to continue the support. The amount of 39 million guilders for the second quarter, to which the RMR has agreed, is based on the liquidity requirement calculated by the Financial Supervision Board (Cft). Sint Maarten has complied with “the vast majority” of the agreements in the previous tranches. Some deadlines have been adjusted because the implementation takes more time. A condition will be met within the foreseeable future. Another condition for the granting of aid was the signing of the first implementation agenda. This was on Knops’ agenda last Monday, but he makes no mention of this in his letter.
The aim of adjusting immigration policy is to emphasize and further flesh out the principle that Sint Maarten, as a small and vulnerable economy, must pursue a restrictive immigration policy. As is well known, immigration policy is a changing issue, it must be adapted to the ever-changing socio-economic factors of society. According to the minister, the immigration policy, as reflected in the 2012 Guidelines, was outdated. It has not been updated by previous justice ministers in the past nine years. The impact of both Hurricane Irma in 2017 and the pandemic on the economy were the most important factors for the current Justice Minister to thoroughly overhaul immigration policy. Since this is a time-consuming process, the minister has chosen to deal with the “necessary” adjustments first. At the moment there are 12 policy issues that are being adjusted. For example, a cohabitation contract is from now on not enough to become an official resident of Sint Maarten as a partner, a marriage is now required. From now on residence permits are also in principle issued for one year at a time, so not for several years at once. For example, ten more adjustments have been made. The amended immigration policy has been drawn up in close consultation with the entire immigration management team and their legal experts. The Ministerial Decree was vetted by the Legal Affairs and Legislation Department. And both the Governing Coalition and the Parliament of Sint Maarten have had the opportunity to contribute to the latest version of the immigration policy. So there is support for the changes at all levels.
Slavery is Claude Wathey giving you money decades ago, to further this charade. Who was St Maarten’s biggest slave master? Claude Wathey…. Who is his biggest SLAVE? That one eyed demon he paid to retain…Elco Rosario, who is not a St Maartener went to prison for illegally trying to sell St Maarten land… The last time the queen visited Elco pretended to be a Chinese girl, Julie He, to beg the queen for money to build some Chinese foundation. My brother was your right hand man when they Raided you, Rosario, Timpf the Kadaster and Johnny Erato for trying to fill in land Mullet Bay to sell to foreigners. People actually trying to pretend Elco is a Black revolutionary. Elco needs to get back to his fraudulant and screwing the Chinese men wives, to fix their immigration papers. Elco Rosario is one reason why the Chinese now outnumber the indigenous Blacks. I confronted Elco and Julie when Elco was trying to use Julie to defraud the Dutch queen of millions. Elco cares about his people, the Chinese and NOBODY else. If you want to see the latest in criminal trash destroying this island for their master Claude Wathey, turn on your TV. That, my friends is modern day slavery. NOTHING EARNED…gifts and bribes. And that is why the one eyed snake NEVER looks comfortable in its skin. What I am saying here, I told that STINKING crook Elco in his face, blocking my gate everyday to ride Chinese wife. People want to talk about Karma. And that SLAVE who Claude Wathey bought a studio for, you know Claude beaming up from hell proud. A bunch of busted Criminals, destroying my country not theirs, these demons are not from here. Let me get back to the real News about when Elco the Black Revolutionary was pretending to be a Chinese girl to scam to scam the old WHITE, DUTCH, COLONIAL QUEEN OUT OF HER MONEY! https://stmaartennews.org I don’t fear snakes nor slaves. Only FOREIGN Criminals and crooks to so called represent St Maarteners… I am the only true St Maartener in this conversations, Foreign Chinese Agent Elco Rosario needs to get back to cuckolding Chinese husbands. He really thinks he got away.
The six Caribbean airports within the Kingdom will cooperate more closely. For this they have set up the ‘Dutch Caribbean Cooperation of Airports’ (DCCA). This took place during a virtual meeting of the directors of the six commercial airports on Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Curaçao and Aruba.
DCCA’s goal is to improve the overall quality of each individual airport. They want to do this by providing mutual assistance and exchanging information more efficiently, but also by sharing knowledge and expertise. During the signing ceremony, the directors agreed to work to make the Caribbean region a frontrunner in testing and promoting electric flying.
The collaboration was partly due to the current corona crisis, which has a major impact on tourism and therefore on airports. In addition, there is already close cooperation between the Caribbean islands of the Kingdom in many areas, for example by hospitals. By working together, the airports hope to be more resilient to any new disasters. https://www.rd.nl/artikel/925291-zes-caribisch-nederlandse-luchthavens-gaan-nauwer-samenwerken
After an explanation, Sint Maarten will again receive corona support from the Netherlands. Sint-Maarten is again receiving financial support from the Netherlands to overcome the corona crisis. State Secretary Raymond Knops (Kingdom Relations) refused this at the end of last month because Sint Maarten had complained to the United Nations about alleged racism by the Netherlands.
The Parliament of Sint Maarten has once again confirmed in a letter that it accepts the conditions for the support package, Knops writes to the House. He can also live with the explanation given by parliament about the petition that has been submitted to the UN. According to Knops, the letter from parliament provides ‘sufficient clarification with regard to the necessary continuous support from the States of Sint Maarten’.
The petition to the UN states, among other things, that the conditions set for corona support are contrary to international human rights and are racist. Knops previously said he found the accusations of racism “nonsense” and “very painful”. According to him, the requirements of the aid package do not affect the autonomy of St. Maarten.
Sint Maarten must implement reforms in exchange for the support. Especially the establishment of an organization to implement the changes went wrong in St. Maarten. Now that Knops no longer sees any objections, approximately 18 million euros in corona support will be released for St. Maarten. Since 2010, Sint Maarten has been an autonomous country within the kingdom.
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The crime and police blogs will once again be redirected through the police blogs, and not this one. Hurricane Irma did a number on us, still not quite where we want to be but soon…
The Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA), Omar Ottley would like to inform the Public that Monday May 3rd, 2021 will be a normal working day.
Based on article 23, paragraph 3 in the Arbeidsregeling (labour regulation national ordinance), the Minister of VSA has the authority to assign new dates for Carnival Day and Sint Maarten Day only.
As it pertains to Labour Day, it is stipulated that Labour Day shall be celebrated annually on May 1st. Should this day fall on a Sunday, it would then be celebrated the next day which will be the Monday.
Good morning St Maarten, the new site, just got started after a long delay. For months, I have been trying to get my internet turned on, so that I can try to work, and for months they have been trying to stop fate.
I was not stealing with them, or enjoying the spoils of their crimes, now I am supposed to be trying to protect them?
For months I have pretended to play along, as I listened to excuse after excuse about why I am not allowed to work.
Kendall Dupersoy, if it takes more than a month, for basic internet service in 2021, you are simply not qualified to call yourself the CEO of Telecommunications. You were great when it came to awarding those contracts to the Irish, as you locked the locals out.
I am not the first, the only, the last. And in his bubble, he really think he outsmarted someone.
Kendall Dupersoy is offended when you Point out he would be a trash collector if not for nepotism. Jobs for doing dirt work for politicians. Favor for favor, it is generational with Kendall, but nobody is supposed to know.
How to you look into your sons’ eyes and tell them to work hard, when all their life they’re only seeing you take handouts. Calypsonian Fish agrees, that after years of taking abuse to get better jobs, Kendall like many are starting to forget how they got those jobs, what they had to do to get those jobs.
Kendall has every name in the book for me, because I refuse to prostitute myself for high paying positions, that I NEVER earned. You will see my skills at play, I will finish that site today, yet I am surrounded by people APPOINTED through Nepotism and favoritism… pretending like hard Workers envy them.
So after months of trying to have the potential to work, I am done being nice. Kendall has the Nerve to talk Karma when he curses his own children every day doing dirt for William Marlin.
Today, I am setting up RSS of 25 feeds to attach to the new blog. So I have to post blogs through 25 different sites today, so I will be writing about TELEM, Kendall Dupersoy, The National Alliance, Vance James, SPA/SPM/NA because I need an interesting topic to practice on. So it might seem redundant, but it is not. Every blog will be ubique… An Easter basket filled with ‘eggs’.
