St. Maarten Private Eye

I do not know how I missed the last message from anonymous, but thanks for the interesting views and input to this discusssion. Actually I missed some parts of the IC as I listened to parts at home, in the car and finally the last parts in the AC Wathey Legislative hall.
Commissioner Heyliger reading Dutch threw me off as I could not make out what he was saying even if he had barrels of water to clear his throat.
Interesting what you state about the Monument list being compiled, this I know and it has never been ratified, this part I do not understand, why not? what has been taking so long? I appreciate your thoughts about the road, I had not taken that into consideration that they are making provisions for a road network (Link 7) on property that does not belong to them as yet, although I heard that this link 7 will entail that many (I have no idea how many) properties running from St.Peters Hill, through St.Johns, EW estate, way over coming down somewhere by the current Cake House on LB Scot road with roundabouts etc, this should be a very costly affair paying out all those property owners for this link 7.
The home owners of St.Johns had also objected to this link 7 running through their residential area as they feel it will bring their property values down.
I agree with you that if the Island Territory buys the estate without zoning it as a green area, eventhough it is listed on the Monument list could very well mean that in the future all sorts of construction will take place as need arises.
I was at a meeting where Minister Duncan was explaining that with country SXM, we should anticipate that the island will need about 200-300 extra civil servants, that the island will need more offices to accomodate such services as aviation affairs, maritime affairs, foreign affairs, in short many services that are currently being handled by the Central Government.
Do you know or remember if the zoning plan for Fort Amsterdam was done through a series of public information sessions? and town hall meetings? I do not remember this.
Thanks for this dialouge and maybe we can exchange more when you have more time to write.