St. Maarten Private Eye

Great Bay, St. Martin (March 1, 2008)-The Island Government of St. Maarten, the Department of New Projects Development and Planning, the Commissioner of Environmental Development & Property Management hereby informs the residents of St. Peters in specific and the public at large in general as follows.

As you may have noticed the streets throughout the district of St. Peters are currently in need of repair and have been for some time placed on the urgency list to be upgraded.

We are therefore pleased to inform you that for this purpose a project has been realized called the
“Project St. Peters Beautification”

This project entails the upgrading of the infrastructure of the district of St. Peters, and will include the reconstruction of the road, upgrading the sewage and drainage systems and beautification of the St. Peters road.

The pre-operational works for this project began on Monday, February 25th, 2008 and it is expected that the actual construction works will commence shortly.

The total duration of the project is estimated at thirty two weeks however the works will be done in three sections to allow public access to and from their homes. The estimated completion of this project will be in the month of September 2008.

In an effort to facilitate the traffic situation in this regard, a temporary solution will be put in place, whereby the traffic between St. Peters and Philipsburg will be affected.

Traffic to Philipsburg will be diverted via the Marigot hill road (this will become a one-way traffic only) towards L.B. Scott road
Traffic to and from St. Peters will be deviated through Mesapple road.
Please note that on the 3rd March 2008 the St. Peters Road up and till the first intersection (Basketball court) will be closed for through traffic.

In the event more information is needed regarding this ongoing project, please feel free to contact Mr. Kurt A. Ruan, Head of Department New Projects Development and Planning, or Ms. Nathalie Parotte, Project Manager St. Peters Beautification Project at the sector R.O.B., Department New Projects Development and Planning by the following E-mail address: sxmnewprojects@gmail.com or by telephone: 5424289.

We trust to have informed you sufficiently, as we work together towards a better St. Maarten for one and all.

(especially for that 'one' huh? bet this'll add another digit to the grey-haired bankaccount ^^) he evidently knows how profitable business can be in the construction trade...

‘Gedeputeerden bemoeien zich soms tot op uitvoeringsniveau met het
al dan niet verstrekken van vergunningen, het al dan niet uitgeven
van terreinen, het houden van controles, het openen en sluiten van
bedrijven en dergelijke.’

'Gedeputeerden sometimes to interfere with the implementation
Whether or not providing licences, whether or not to spend
Of land, conducting inspections, the opening and closing of
Companies and the like. "

What is the point with this posting. What is Dr. Voodoo trying to say? As I understand correctly, K.R. is placed on in-active duty for having an accident with a government car when drunk. In my opinion this is a proper measure and hardly important news. It certainly doesn't deserve a seperate blog. Why didn't Dr. Voodoo start a post on lawyer R.Z. when the same happened to him? Or is the point alcoholism in general? I doubt that.

Can we please use PE for important matters, like corruption, environmental abuses and other problems in this society? And focusing on certain people, it might be better to research the whereabouts, interests and habits of people like K.R. and Theo in relation to these problems.