St. Maarten Private Eye

I do not know if the person who wrote measurements is correct. Did the Kadaster office ever measure the high water line at Dawn Beach?
I have not seen the part in the planning permit where it states that Roy gave up a part of the beach to the hotel, but I am sure that Flipper can look to see if it is in documentation. Is the beach give away in the first or second planning permit?
Remember that the two planning permits differed which I think is illegal. The first had the pond remaining as advice from VROM, the second had the pond removed and relocated. The pond never relocated, it was removed and a man made detention water tank up a hill was built with a culvert leading directly to the beach. The beach visitors can still see the outflow and end of the culvert on the beach.
One day for sure this culvert will be broken down by high waves and the sea water will back up into that culvert. The pool is also on the public beach, whatever Marlin gave away I am not sure but anyone who knew the old Dawn beach will see clearly that the pool is too close to the waters edge.
Now, remember that all objectees had to appear before the committee of experts. This committee of experts was a committee that R.Marlin himself appointed. The Committee of experts after listening and evaluating the Dawn Beach planning permits, gave negative advice for this planning permit to go ahead as is.
What did Roy and the EXCO do? EXCO turned down the advice. The expert committee has engineers and other experts in the field, and Roy and his EXCO team made up of high school graduates and lowly high school (ETAO) actors believe their advice is the best. To make matters worse, when the Dawn Beach planning permit was the agenda point in the Island Council, the opposition National Alliance party voted along with the DP for the project to be approved as is.
The opposition did not quite understand or they refuse to understand that the agenda point was to send the planning permit back for amendments. The only IC member who understood the topic and the agenda point was Ms. Gracita Arrindell. She later was accussed by both parties of being against development. Same as they do with all environmentailsts when we object to governments very poor abillity with handling building and planning permits and the (non) inspection of those projects.

Yours respectfully, an active person who has been keeping an eye on Dawn beach, WESTIN.