St. Maarten Private Eye

M&M N.V. is the company seeking a to build a funeral home and crematorium in Sucker garden.
This is the Toochie meyers gang.

Heavenly song N.V. is the exsisting funeral home that is seeking to add a crematorium to the Emerald funeral home in Cay Hill.
This is the Frankie Meyers gang (Commissioner of Health and death)

Do we reallllly need 2 crematoriums on the island? while M&M says they have acquired land in Sucker Garden next to the Lions Club building where ASA operates, they also claim they will have parking facillities for the services that will be held there.
And we all know parking is very needed, especially seeing the large funeral services that are held in the last years. There is still a lot to debate about the environmental and health issues surrounding a crematorium in a populated area. Dwayne Meyers (M&M) said that he estimates that only 5 cremations will be held yearly, so the people are asking if the amount is that low, why bother with building an expensive crematorium?

Heavenly Song N.V. has not had a public hearing as yet, but residents are very worried that Emerald funeral Home already lacks parking facilites as the building has parkng for 4 vehicules.
When a funeral is held there, the cars are a danger to road users as cars are parked on the roundabout, on the side of the roads, over at the Learning Unlimited school, cars parked are a hamper to ambulances trying to get to the hospital.
The infastructure is not in place in this area for a crematorium, which needs parking facilities, this area will also become home soon to the fire department.
Ambulances, fire trucks need a wide enough road to manouver to get to the hospital, fire trucks need to speed off to fires, a road lined with parked cars will not help with the response times.

The main problem with any crematorium on the island regardless of neighborhood is the need to moniter the crematorium, make sure that the operators are doing things properly. And this is where all our problems lie on SXM, who will inspect it? This is our loved ones we are talking about, giving them their last resting place and everyone wants things to go smoothly.
Not to hear that the machine broke down, the body half burned and the operators are waiting for a part from the US etc.

Government inspectors should be trained to deal with crematoriums but then even so, the people are saying they have no confidence that the dept Inspectors will carry out their jobs as they are hardly doing so now, as we see with other depts, notably with large construction developments.