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St. Maarten lives on
St. Maarten lives on
“St. Maarten will live on”: a CD launch that according to the composer, Jeffrey Richardson, will be an evening “centered on educating the audience about the history of St. Maarten and encouraging persons to become more patriotic about their country St. Maarten.” Sounds like an admirable, positive and edifying event? Perhaps, … until you find out that it is to take place in the Westin Resort! If ever there were an example in recent years of how the people of St. Maarten let their island be ruined by greedy investors and politicians and spoilt for ever by short-term gain, it is this monstrous complex.
When I returned to these islands to live here again and I came down the road from Oyster Pond, I asked the people who were in the car with me: “Why did they choose lovely Dawn Beach as the site for a new prison?” It was explained to me that this was actually a resort!
Its architecture is so exclusively focused on its customers inside that it presents itself to the island upon which it is built as a grim, massive, cheap looking, forbidding eyesore that demeans all of its surroundings.
However, perhaps it was a very strategic choice of Mr. Richardson and his colleagues. Perhaps they chose the Westin Resort on purpose to illustrate to Saturday’s audience in a very direct way what happens when people are not “patriotic about their country St. Maarten.” Because he can simply say to them: “Just look around you right here at this invasion of callous corporate imperialism that was allowed to take over a beach where all St. Maarteners felt welcome before!” His launch is themed “Do you know?”, so perhaps one of the questions he and his colleagues will answer during this launch is: “do you know how the developers of this monstrosity were able to get away with this?”
Maybe Mr. Richardson’s title “St. Maarten will live on” is not so much meant as an expression of confidence but more as a cry of despair: “will live on” despite the Westin Resort’s brutal imposition on the natural environment; despite the Low Lands becoming high rise, despite the Salt Pond turning into a salt puddle; despite Great Bay increasingly becoming a small bay, etc. etc.
Of course St. Maarten will live on. But if its people continue to let these things happen: will it be worth living on?
Same old tired, worn out arguments, complaints and bla bla bla. A buncha whining! This is why I believe this blog site is losing its appeal. Nit pick about everything. Now it's nit-picking about Jeffrey's event at Westin. nevermind that he comes from one of the biggest families on SXM and just trying to to stage a positive event. Way to get the locals to listen up, nit-pick at one of their own. NOBODY CARES!!
Go out and support Jeffrey!!
And that's exactly why St Maarten is going down the drain: because people like Anonymous and many like him don't care (as he spells out him/herself in capitals!!)
How on earth can you have a positive event in a negative environment
When you support Jeffrey by going to the Westin, you support the Westin more than anything else.
That you too can write a blog, blogs are now open to anyone who registers a user name. So, based on that FACT, understand that people are basically free to write about what, and how, they want to. What you have above is one person's OPINION, the same thing your comment is, an opinion.
If this site is not to your liking then don't bother looking at it, we are not out to please everyone and if you don't like the content and have something better to say, then there option to write a blog yourself is right there for you. Or are you just nitpicking and whining too?
Thank you for your blog Klipper.
LH