Are you happy with the direction New Status is going?
Yes, I'm very happy.
5%
I'm comfortable with it.
5%
I have some worries and doubts.
18%
I am very unhappy with it, anxious for the future of the island and people.
23%
Higher Supervision, New Referendum, All 'New Status' Options openly debated please!
50%
Total votes: 22
Credibility, Emilio Wilson and the ExCo
Undercover | Tue, 2005-11-15 09:57
Guys, great to be back. Had a busy couple days. I read Jadira and applaud her and you guys for standing up to the Emilio Wilson fiasco. Watching CNN yesterday, I saw Wolf Blitzer talking about what I knew all along. Bush and Blair's magic fraud on the world over Iraq has come back to haunt them. Now both top honchos of the world are facing crisis at home in their governments with falling confidence showing clearly in the polls. Iraq was all about the oil and whether one likes Chavez or not with his politically incorrect statements, he is to be recognized for saying what right-thinking citizens are thinking, wrong is wrong.
St Maarten is no different. I believe our laid back friendly attitude and trust in our officials has allowed them to get away with almost anything. Lately however, a wind of change seemed to have been blowing. More and more people are being outspoken about the perceived ills in our society. The DP government, it seems, is hell bent to stay in government at all costs. Afterall lucrative deals have to be made. A friend of mine asked the other day why don’t the government try to find some solution to the flooding on Cannegieter Street and try not to have that much potholes (I noticed they repaved the road). She answered her own question, because if the status quo remains the same, a paving company stands to benefit ever so often.
What I am trying to say, people, is that I am saying what no one else wants to say. Everything that this administration does, it appears that ways are being dreamed up to make money for themselves. The harbor, GEBE sewage, Emilio Wilson, Dunes Casino and I can think of a few others.
Recently a friend and I were talking about the time I saw a commissioner gave some money to a voter during elections day during the last Island Council elections at Sundial School. I was pissed at her dismissal. Yeh, but the guy is unemployed, she says.
How low have we sunken? Is corruption so rampant in our society that we have become so immune?
With regards to the EWE situation I have to say this. There is a second will that is suppose to be circulating…why is this not being investigated? It is alleged that a former employee of a well known notary was handling the new will and failed to file it. So the million dollar question is who are the real owners?
My friends, in my view, before we can even discuss any impending developments, this should be targetted. A critic may argue here that Brookson or whoever are the legal representative according to the old will. I say if there are questions about a will then investigate. Because I understand from statements that Brookson and quite a few people have been ignore in the alleged new will. Our culture is at stake.
Further this site is really touching on issues that none of the present newspaper are. Perhaps it may be a good idea to link up with The National when it returns and really give the people of St Maarten the truth…
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