St. Maarten Private Eye

With a cherry on top!

The permit request has been denied and the document, about 10 pages long, is now up for public review at the VROM office. You can go look at it, but you can't get a copy. Nor can you get a copy of the archaeological study presented to Roy Marlin over 6 months ago by Jay Haviser.

I'll explain about the cherry below.

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The document prepared by government lawyers to support the permit refusal is of vital importance to those opposing the development, it is understood from a reliable scource that those same lawyers, or at least one of them, recommended that all those who submitted a letter opposing the development should receive a copy.

On the 1st of August, attempts were made to get a copy. You can't get one from VROM, you have to apply at General Affairs which was done in writing. General Affairs did not have the document but did send a letter the same day to VROM requesting them. As of today, it is not known if they have been successful.

It appears Mr Kadamer (spelling?), the head of VROM is hesitant about giving it out, as if he feel doing so may bring some trouble down on his head.

In the case of the archaeological report, if only there was an opposition party or a media with balls. There is absolutely NO reason that this report should not be made public, it is the peoples history and heritage, it's disgraceful. SXM PE would very much like to hear from someone with a copies of these documents, we will publish them right here if we can get them.

There is nothing to stop EWE BV from resubmitting a permit request, if they have copies of these documents then they have a huge advantage over those opposing the development. Have they been supplied with these documents already and why is it proving so difficult for the various interested parties to get them?

As for the 'Cherry on top' title, part of the deal EWE BV was offering government was to build and give to the island a new Governors House. It is rumored that Franklin Richards picked the spot himself, at the top just below the 200m line.

LH

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