St. Maarten Private Eye

I have no idea about the case against Geno Lawrenzi, the driver of the car, but I'll tell you what I think.

I think the fact there was only one ambulance on duty for the whole Dutch side at the time (shameful) and it took quite a while to get to Martin, plus the fact that despite pleading by Geno to the police officers on the scene to take Martin to the hospital, a 5 min ride for them, and their refusal (probably because they didn't want to 'bloody' their car up), plus the hospital leaving the guy in the waiting room without treatment while waiting for someone to show them insurance documents, kind of lead me to think that it will just disappear. There is no case against Geno except maybe reckless driving, because Martin apparently died of loss of blood and who's fault was that?

Some could blame Theo, the Commissioner who gets treatment in the US and is in charge of our' one' ambulance dept? The Police Force for not taking him to the hospital or the Justice Minister for not ensuring they have training to make such decisions. Or was it the Hospital? Just what is the policy there? Do you die in the foyer if you can't present your insurance card? Would the same treatment, or rather, lack of it, be given if it was a tourist, white person, someone local the staff knows, or was it just because he was Haitian and a garbage man?

All the news reports are posted, I guess it's up to you to make up your own mind what you think, I'd be interested to hear.

LH