St. Maarten Private Eye

What ever happen to those who were detained in Colebay after a cache of weapon were found. What ever happen to the individual arrested in the Simpsonbay Hotel opposite La palapa. These were all individual of Arab descent. It's very strange that in the last few years, all of these arab business men start setting up shop on St.Maarten selling furniture, household product and now beauty products. It is common that the arab set up their own country people. I will give them the benifit of the doubt, they may have made some transcations between the US, some Middle Eastern Countries and SXM in order to purchase property ,open businesses and had to transfer funds to pay back their investors. ANytime you process a transaction of funds more than 10K in the US, a red flag comes up. And with profiling, the fact becomes more amplified.
However, It all started in the 80's when One such businessman came to the island from the Virgin Islands and open up a small grocery store next to the Foodcenter, it burned down. THe same businessman went and open a furniture store in the former Gillbert Bulding on the longwall road, that too burned down, although not the entire building. The businessman has since open a grocery store on the LB scott road next to SXM Academy.
The VNA and the RST has always shared information with the FBI, so I'm sure they have a whole file, so we have not heard the last of this story

While it indeed started with the Sheik and his several stores burning down, keep in mind that Spadaro's businesses had several fires as well, here and on St.Kitts.
Could have been poor electrical wiring or ... (well keep an open mind)
But the majority of these new Arabs came here AFTER 911 and most of them came either from or through St.Croix and St.Thomas, and they are not family to the Sheik.
By the way the Sheik is not on St.Maarten anymore, his family on island is taking care of the supermarket.
So the question remains, how is it possible that we had such a influx of Arabs in such a short time span? and they have succeeded to taker over shops that were previously Hindu owned and operated.
While it seems you have faith in the VNA and RST and the FBI, I think they are somewhat always late with their stuff and have a hard time keeping up.
And they don't have real investigators who are undercover to get to the real story, you really think those Dutch RST guys who anyone can spot from a mile as a Dutch cop can infiltrate these groups and report their findings?
And the VNA? I don't know when was the last time I heard they have unearthed a threat to our national security. Besides that, our real threat to national security is corruption from the politicians who are the ones ALLOWING illegal movement of people, allowing Arabs and Chinese to set up shop without investigating where the money is coming from, allowing strip clubs to open around every corner and allowing casino controllers to be in the twilight zone without anything to do but sit and drink at the casino's expense.
Well, ok, maybe they caught one threat to national security; Marcel Loor who had his own side job of allowing people in for a price while pretending to be the tough immigration cop.
By the way people, while some bloggers have been concerned with the amount of jewelry stores while it was even stated that many of these jewelers survive because their merchandise is on consignment, has anyone paid any attention to the proliferation of supermarkets? there is a supermarket in every hole in a wall now.
Cash, Cash and cash, thats the trick, cash business rules on SXM and any business with cash can cheat the TOT and profit tax. Same goes for Chinese food establishments where the potato peelers put raw potatoes in dirty muddy water, see last WEEKENDER for picture. it is amazing that for a group of people like the Chinese that cannot speak English read nor write -they have managed to open so many establishments in every dirty crook and cranny.
How did they manage to put in for their business license? their residents papers? Do you get the idea that maybe there is a entire network set up to help Chinese supermarkets and restaurants operate on SXM? I leave it up to you readers to think, but unless the RST and VNA get undercover people that can speak one of the 4 Chinese languages and the Arab language and have a method of tracing monies we are far from under covering the truth.

It is the same as the casinos. There so many hardware and home improvement stores, one can only think that there is not a big enough customer base to sustain all of them . Yet they seem to be flourishing. I think, and I have absolutely no proof of it, that most of these stores are washing machines. Be it for terrorism or whatever. It's simply a matter of putting 2 and 2 together.
The same goes for a lot of businesses on the island. But as the hardware stores are mainly owned by Middle-easterners we tend to link them to terrorism. Is it true or not? We 'll see in the long run.