St. Maarten Private Eye

For many years one could not even do a driving exam in sxm. Moreover, sxm encouraged citizens to go saba and statia to support their economy.

Now today, because of some fraud within the saba license dept., now all of a sudden no saba licenses will be accepted. The worst part of that story is the fact that the crooks were caught and all their files were reviewed. It has been years since those cases were filed and the crooks went to jail.

So justice has been served, right? Apparently not, cause saba licenses are now all "suspect" and not accepted.

One big question comes to mind in all this:

- are the drivers' licenses of people from the USA (where you get licenses via computer and with automatic) better than saba licenses?
- are Haitian, Dominican, Russian, Indian, Brazilian licenses all better than saba licenses? From countries we have no idea what exam or system is employed.

The answer is NO they are not. This is just simply a case of our chief of police scared of his shadow again and don't take any decision, while in the meantime our people are hostage and being harassed on the french side of sweet sxm land.

This is outrageous!...Just another example how our new laws or so called "policies" are not serving our citizens. Sometimes I think we were better off as the so-called "backward, banana republic" of yester year.

The Patriot