St. Maarten Private Eye

You mention a suggestion of banning large SUV's. While this is an option in most countries, here on SXM many of the people depend on a SUV to climb the hills, we depend on the SUV's to trek through flood areas and during hurricane times, not to mention these SUV's survive the potholes better than the small eco-cars.
How about taxing the SUV's owners extra? tax them and hopefully the ones that do not really need a SUV will consider buying something else. I have noticed that in general the ones that pollute are the large buses especially the buses that do the island tours for a particular bus company located in Cay Hill.
Next time while sitting in traffic pay extra attention and see who the real carbon polluters are and I can assure you that you will see the large buses, large trucks and other construction equipment.
Just today I passed one such dump truck spewing his thick black smoke into our environment, when I checked for his number plate, it was French. I wonder if they now have vehicle inspection on the French side.