St. Maarten Private Eye

I have no problems with people asking questions, it is the tone you set.
I am not an elected official so there is no need for me to answer the people, I do it as I believe in transparency. I also believe that because of the tone of your questions, other foundations clamp up and nothing of their work comes out to the media and the people. I also have many questions regarding where we stand with the Monument list, which houses, buildings are on the Monument list, When will the Monument list be approved by Government, Why is it taking so long to approve and make headway? I do ask everyone now and then the proper people in these foundations what the progress is, and I do not ask in a negative tone.
I can only do my part from SXM PRIDE, as I depend on the other foundations AND GOVERNMENT to do their part as well. You are the one in your post grouping all foundations as the SXMPRIDES of the island, so if anyone is grouping everyone in the same category of ignorance, it is you.
People have to realize that the majority of environmental and heritage foundations work with people that volunteer their time, their energy and many times these volunteers also donate their own money. We have come very far from the time when there were no activist groups, and the few that started like Elsje Bosch and Francois van de Hoeve along with Dwight Barran were chastised as non patriots, freaks, crazy people. Someone told me the other day that the word "environment" only started being mentioned in the Island Council in recent years, before that it was unknown or maybe unpopular to mention.
You ask if I or the other foundations know of these houses you mention in your post, meaning you know of others that we might not know of. If you are really serious with your questions, then please visit the Museum on Frontstreet and ask Elsje to view her picture book with the inventory she has made. Maybe it is best to also take pictures and then go and see if she has to the same houses already documented.
Foundations depend on people just like you to do your part too.

Jadira Veen