St. Maarten Private Eye

Dear Flipper,

I will try to give my own personal opinions and the opinion of the board of the EWE foundation.
I will also try to correct you where you have the wrong information.
However, I also have to keep some things confidential, as we believe that the EWE B.V. is listening to us via this website and other media.
It is clear that the B.V. does not wholely know what they are talking about and make stupid comments at times through their Representative Deleu.
If they know everything we know, then they will be in a stronger position to strategise.
Vance James is not a boardmember of the EW Cultural and Historical Park.
He is somehow related to the late Emilio via his wife.
Persons that have seen the will of 1999 state that Vance name is in this will.
A delegation of 2 persons went to visit Mr. Granville Wilson when he was still alive, these persons went to secure the executorship of the Estate.
The persons were Mr. Vance James, Mr. Ron Bizot representing himself and also representing Mr.Jose Speetjens.
Mr. Granville Wilson gave the o.k. to these persons to be the executors.
After about a month, the executorship of these persons were revoked by Granville.
From the information I received, this caused a bit of confusion as how this happened.
The new executors took over the Estate, Mr. Groman, Mr. Tisman and Richard Gibson.
Let me also bring more clarity to the Estate itself, up until October 10th.
the Estate was in the name of the late Emilio Wilson.
So remember that the planning permit brought forward by the "empty" B.V. at the VROM department was from September 1-30th.
It lacked the proof of ownership documents proving that the B.V. owned the land.
As the land was still registed in the name of Emilio.
Many foundations and persons wrote objections based on this argument among many more arguments opposing the development plans.
After the IC meeting and debate re: the EWE, Roy Marlin still refused to pull the planning permit from public review.
Our foundation and others cried that the planning permit is even fraudelent in nature as one of the required documents one needed to present in a planning permit is proof of ownership which was lacking.
I am guessing that after hearing from us that Emilio is still the owner of the land, the lawyers in question decided to pull a strategy, they appointed Ms. Edna Diggs and Marni Weinstock as co-executors, this is from October 10th.2005.
I also understand that Groman is somehow involved in the nursing home , from my understanding, he is either a co-owner or the lawyer for the nursing home where Granville was residing.
Weinstock also works in the nursing home.
Now, your comment as to Mr. Mathius Voges, I truely believe that Mathius is an honorable man, you must remember that he is also playing Lt. Governor at times.So he has the duty to remain objective.
I believe he also wants to protect the entire Estate, indeed he was appointed on Governments committee that never got off the ground.
Mathius is also a historian, he was supposed to debut a new SXM book on SXM day, I do not know and I did not hear if it ever happened.
Do not forget that the students that protested at the Government building were from one of the schools of which he heads, so obvioulsy he is in favour of protecting the Estate as a Reserve and also for the rich historical data present.
You are right when you say that the Park boardmembers should be more vocal, but I think we saw some participation from some of them during the cultural evening that was organised.
Mr. Lambert was present and even contributed to the event, Mr. Busby was present, Dennis Richardson has said a few words in favour of the Estate,I believe another member Ammorette was also present.
I have not heard from Mr. Richard Gibson regarding this issue, and also from other members of the Park Board.
With this issue, I do hope the entire community involves themselves and not be afraid of political backlash like what happened with the Dolphinarium issue, and the Dawn Beach Issue.
This here is my personal opinion; I recently had a chat with highschool students that participated in the EXCO briefing protest on the EWE issue and many of them told me that several Commissioners contacted their parents or when they saw their parents on the road they made small chit chat that their children are rebels, and/or their children have big mouths just like the parents etc, some of the comments were made in a jokingly manner - however the students saw this as a sort of intimidation, and I have to agree with them.
it is sort of like singling out the students parents to let them know that the EXCO has taken note of who the parents are, so they should be careful.
For those of you who do not get it, these same students will be looking for scholarships soon.
I think it is high time that we on SXM have to stop playing politics with every person and trying to intimidate persons for not playing according to the ruling party rules.
I have also decided that with the Emilio Wilson Estate I will NOT remain anonymous, I will tell it like it is.
Some persons might not like it, but the truth is we have to stop hiding behind every corner and think we can still win a battle.

Yours Truely,

Jadira Veen