St. Maarten Private Eye

Sybille, while I agree with you about graffiti may be considered art. It depends if the graffiti was intended as such.
Keith Haring was one of the most popular graffiti artist that made it into the big time.
However, the scrawlings I see everywhere in Cole Bay is not art and should be removed and repainted, it is an uglification of the community.
The writing is about "blood" "killing" with visible gangsta messages along with a signature of their turf.
I believe it is high time someone starts to address this issue and if making a film or a documentary is what it takes, then so be it.
Our youth needs help, they need parents that will spend quality time with them, they need a sound stable family life and they desperately need positive role models. Not gangsta rap music about Ho's and using the guns. They need to see that people have to work hard for their livelihood and that crap they watch on MTV and VHI and TEMPO with gangsta's driving luxury cars, eying women that look like prostitutes and the multiple gold chains and $200 sneakers is not going to get them anywhere in life except behind bars in prison.