St. Maarten Private Eye

While it is true that Louie Laveist was many years ago an activist for the lagoon, Once he got into politics he did nothing anymore to protect the lagoon.
The Simpson Bay lagoon is worse off today then many years ago when he was shouting.
The illegal filling and buildings being built on the Lagoon's water edge happened under his watch.
Just a few months ago, a building was built smack on the edge of the lagoon behind one of the newer banks located on the street side.
People thought that the back of the bank was reserved for clientiele parking, nope, another building sprung up and parking again is extremely limited.
This building was built and/or owned by Ivan Havertong, partner with Claudius Buncamper (SBS) Ok, I feel a another rush of posts coming now from sxmlocalboy.
The fact of the matter is that our local village idiot has been in government for more than 8 years and the Simpson Bay lagoon is worse off today than it was 8 years ago.
The problem is not that our people forget, the ones here long enough knows that Lou Lou has an ETAO diploma in typing, he later worked in a lowly position in the Culture Department.
The problem is really that SXM has a transient population, people here for 4 years, 2 years, people leave to Holland and the US, then come back etc, even the reporters, not one goes back to the nineties. Some here for 6 months, some for 2 years.
So of course THEY don't know, except Fabian Badejo.
How he can write something like Loui's article and still feel good about himself is beyond me.
Of course everything on SXM has to do with 'what you can do for me" Could it be that Badejo's company gets work around election time?