St. Maarten Private Eye

Richards is a waste of time but I guess he fits his look alike in government. God Bless anyway

Roy Marlin was apparently on Lloyd's show but I missed it, I did catch a little of Henri Brookson and his chum Toby the 'butler' who were on right after though.

From what I understand, Roy was talking about how maybe the island should consider staggering development, much in the same way Anguilla is doing, even going so far as putting a moratorium on development last year. Problem is, his talk doesn't reflect in his actions.

Henri actually mentioned SXM PE and Emilio's video, he was casting doubt on Emilio's intentions towards his property and that this letter that Brookson has a copy of changes the context of what Emilio says.

What he neglected to mention is that KABNA was a federal government department and that all this was taking place around the time of higher supervision.

The simple letter itself is hardly a sales agreement, it looks like the opening of negotiations and I think it can be assumed that at the possibility of sale became more likely then Emilio would have thought more about it, with more conditions.

What would be very interesting would be to find out what the reply from Mr van Deiman was.

As for the mineral rights condition, Emilio might have thought one day gold, diamonds or oil might be found there, who knows. The point is that Emilio say's he would sell it to the Federal Govt or the Queen, because they would 'take good care of it', make it into an 'historical park'.

Henri can spin and puff out smoke as much as he wants to try to confuse the situation, bringing along his buddy Toby to newspapers and radio shows, it changes nothing.

The IC passed a motion to protect and preserve the estate, the govt promised a 3 man committee and a report, that it would be happy to work with the EWE Foundation to achieve this end. What did we get?

Despite several attempts by the EWE to initiate contacts with govt, nothing has been recieved back. There was no 3 man committee and no report, there is however an archaeological report that Roy has been keeping from the public and interested parties for over 6 months now. Douments are held back and probably even hidden from the public, it's disgusting and disgraceful.

What we have now is court cases because govt was insincere in it's vote for preservation and did absolutely nothing to avoid this situation. Maybe they like it this way, maybe they want to lose so they can get the development that they were originally so enthusiastic about, the Link 7 road, the new governors house, a triffle here and there.

It's a heartbreaking shame we have such a timid media on the island, and they want to put a moratorium on journalists?? You have to laugh or you cry.

LH

The only solution to most of these problems is a change of attitude of those civil servants which represent what we call government today. It is indeed a shame to see from the highest to the lowest level they seek to manipulate the society based on the position that they have in government. You cannot trust anyone of them.

Crime is on the rise and there is noway we can curb crime with the kind of management we have in the police force. The Justice system, including the Public Prosecutors needs a complete overhaul. Again the question is? Where do we get qualified people to take over these positions? We want more autonomy but we are not willing to educate our own to take over. If you are qualified and you support a party other then the DP you will not get the job.

I can continue and write books about the mismanaged of government. Why does it take soo long before a final decision can fall on the outcome of the EWE. Who is responsible to give the final decision. I assume that no matters who owned the property, government has the tools to list the whole property as a hystorical site and close the doors for all development other then what is feasible within the frame work of historical site.

That is the situation with many other issues. Look at the teachers situation, traffic, crime, business, education, communication, social care, sports etc. All is failing and the people just continue about their business as usual. Thank God there is a tomorrow. Because of that it gives me the strength and the courage to continue to be a positive partaker in this society.

The Guardian Angel

I heard the Lloyd show today and Brookson mentioned the letter that Emilio wrote to a man called Van Diemen who worked for KABNA in 1993. What Brookson fails to tell the people is that KABNA is the representative of the KINGDOM government in the Netherlands Antilles. So the video is correct, he approached the right person to sell his Estate, he said he wanted to sell to the KINGDOM government, and not to have houses and shacks here and there.
Brookson and his Emilio Wilson Estate b.v. is not the KINGDOM government.

Brookson can twist and turn all he wants, I hope the people and the government including the Lt. Governor is listening, because he keeps insisting that the Lt. Governor wanted a Governors house there. KABNA has another name nowadays and the SXM office these days has a Mr. Stortelers as the Kingdom representative. Mr. Eddie Williams from Radio Soualiga calls it the "colonial office on Frontstreet"

*Listener of Lloyd sunday shows

We need a reporter on this island which is willing to take a stand and do the necessary research on issues like the EWE and come out with a complete report with all the documents and the details of all the people related to this issue. Instead of calling the place a colonial office he should have gone and confirm that is was correct. Maybe van Diemen at that time act not on behalf of the Dutch Govt but as Mr. van Diemen a private citizen. THat is what a lot of people in government does. They hear about a project as being a representative of government and tomorrow they form a company and take over the project. These are the things we need to investigate. Anyway one of these the sun will shine again on Sint Maarten.

To listener of Lloyd sunday shows,

You are correct when you state that Van Diemen who was employed with KABNA is/was a representative of the Kingdom Government.
So Emilio's letter written in 1993 is corresponding to his video of 1992 where he states that he wanted to only sell to the Kingdom Government.

KABNA today is known as the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken and Koninksrijksrelaties, or the vertegenwoordiging van Nederland in the Nederslandse Antillen. Commissioner Roy Marlin has already sent the Estate file to the Monument Council for adding to the Monument list. We are waiting to hear the outcome from the Monument Council on their decision.

Monument Council has also heard a presentation of the archeology study given by J.Haviser since more than a week ago.

Jadira Veen
Emilio Wilson Estate foundation