St. Maarten Private Eye

I am in my mid 40's and I have been on St.Maarten/St.Martin most of the years with a interlude in my 20's so I should remember gangs and gang fights but I don't.
So I ask the previous writer..... did I miss something? I remember sport teams young boys from the different districts having a small ti- tat on the ball fields but not in neighborhoods.
So I will disagree with you, I do not remember gangs in the sense of controlling neighborhoods by controlling youths who would kill or harm others belonging to other neighborhoods.
In my years they used to enjoy using the term but that is because it made them feel tough and super hero like. What we are experiencing today is a melt down of our youth culture where youths carry guns,knives and machetes and will harm others if others trespass on their turf.
This is dangerous and it seems no one is asking who these children belong to, as they were not just jucked up from somewhere right? someone or something animal like must account as their parents. No one wants to hear the truth but the truth is as real as anyone under the age of 18 is still under the supervision and guidance of their parents, parents are responsible.
Then another question is who is supplying the youth with weapons, why have the police not found as yet the importers of all the guns that are walking our streets in the children's pockets. So before we go on and on about how SXM always had gangs which is baloney, I do believe that the youth are listening to music that incites violence and disrespect and hatred, they play video games that have an adult rating yet the parents do nothing about that, infact many parents just go out and buy video games with violence for their small children.
Children will copy anyhting they see in pop culture and I am sad to see that pop culture glorifies gangs, violence, clothing not deemed appropaite outside of prison, and for chirst sake can someone please tell these little children that they look so damn stupid holding their crutch all the time.