St. Maarten Private Eye

The reason we have little or no water is because Government needs to control other areas such as allowing private citizens to set their garbage and brush afire in residential areas. You are asking why I'm making his point I suppose?? Because then the other residents (not the person burning the fire, cause I guess they like their house smelling of smoke) have to wash everything in their house to get rid of the scent!! Some of these fires burn all day long, can you imagine! Most of the time they start them when your are not even home to close the windows etc. Government also needs to look into these water leakages that are caused when the water pressure does return to such an extent the pipes burst and these leakages go unchecked for days, even when our friends at GEBE are called (if you can get through to them, because as you know, they put the phone off the hook when they're tired of hearing from us customers). Just thought I would voice a little bit of my frustration...

I agree many of people set the fires, but Government seems to be the major problem with all this shit. They make laws, sometimes they don't and then they are never enforced. There is no way that we will get separate status when our Leader of Government comes out in the newspaper and few months back stating that we cannot afford garbage pickup How in the world could we be self sustaining when she couldn't even answer the little boy as to why he had no water. Their appears to be only one set of rules and that is their regardless of their conflicts of interests, they keep it within the DP only, the only way Sint Marten is going to have a bright future is to rid of the current Government and start a new., the N.A. couldn't even fix the problems. Perhaps the Dutch should run Government for a trial period and set up a fair election standard (one without Camera phones in the voting booths and put an end to paying for votes). We all know it happens, but no one pursues it. I really don't know what the solution is, it seems as though all Government Leaders are power hungry, as per Christine Amanpour's documentary on Czar Putin (President Vladimir Putin on Russia that aired last night). It puts a whole new light as to where we are all heading towards. (DISASTER)

How stupid do they think we are. We use reverse osmosis and upon looking upon the Internet, water osmosis is taking the salt water from the Ocean (and we have plenty of it around us) and desalting it and purifying it into drinking water. So now what excuse will they use? Does anyone really believe that report supplied to the Dail Herald?

The Westin is taking over 100,000 gallons a day, so start adding up all the other new resorts!!!

I listened to the IC budget debate yesterday and I heard Commissioner of Finance Roy Marlin who in his last job was Commissioner of Environment say that Air Fin water plant was never supposed to supply water over the hill.
This was in response to a IC member asking questions if Air Fin water plant can pump water over the hill to supply water to GEBE consumers in the Philipsburg-Cule Sac-Middle Region areas.
Commissioner of Finance and Energy and the same Commissioner who made a mess of the environment in his previous portfolio responded saying Air Fin water plant is to supply water to the Western areas of the island, read Lowlands and Enverserve will continue with supplying water to the consumers over the hill.
I had never heard of this before, I was under the impression that the Enerserve contract was not going to be renuwed because Air Fin water plant was the new kid on the block and taking over-with a handsome kick back to our Commissioner of Energy.
The Commissioner also responded to one of the IC members that they should not allude to some hanky panky taking place in his portfolio-I had to laugh, Dear Commissioner we know that hanky panky is taking place all the time. Watching this IC budget debate yesterday made one laugh and cry, the opposition does not do their homework and the EXCO lies through their teeth. I feel we are short changed by these fools in Government.

Flipper have read The Dailyherald news paper of the 17th of December 2007. The editorial title "Lack of Vision" boy it sure put some light on our situation.

In a nut shell in made it clear that Government did not manage the island growth properly and it stated it clearly as the title in the dailyherald mentioned.

DH Editorial - Lack of vision

Please read smn news today. according to SMN news GEBE is not ready with installing pipes and technicians are on vacation. Thus Air Fin will not be ready for the end of the year as the Commissioner would like everyone to know.
Plus, Air Fin will get paid wether ready or not, it is in their contract.