St. Maarten Private Eye

Spatial Planning - Govt offices full.

The only way this study will be of any use to the island is if it is published, fully and unedited and undoctored, online, for the public to see, the students promise to so. Our govt has resisted zoning, environmental and spatial planning for decades and there are plenty of studies and reports, on development, education, crime and many other issues, that have been ignored or kept out of the public domain, we don't need another.

I look forwards to reading it and hearing more about their 'jollifications'.

Daily Herald Editorial - What’s the hold-up? - 25th July 2008

Dutch students on spatial development study - 24th July 2008

Dutch team to help with Spacial planning - 24th July 2008

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Development and Construction | Environment | Housing | Island Politics | Roads and Traffic | Local Hero's blog | 2 comments | read more

Inaction in Action - EWE

Late last week the Today had a wonderful little O & C article about EWE, bringing it back into the public eye. I've been meaning to write a post about it for a while, we are still waiting to hear just what exactly the Govt is doing to follow through on it's two resolutions to preserve the estate. I'd be willing to $100 down on 'not a damn ting'.

The article went into some detail about Henri "I want to be a Millionaire" Brookson's contract with the BV developers and ownership of the estate, something I thought Brookson had already cleared up back on January the 28th, maybe he was bullshitting.

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Development and Construction | Emilio Wilson Estate | Environment | Housing | Island Politics | Local Hero's blog | add new comment | read more

Social and Health Care.

A great deal of social care is carried out by NGO's such as Helping Hands, MPO, I Can, White and Yellow Cross and others. The Childrens Rights Advocate report and recommendations in October 2004 gives a fairly clear picture as does the story that follows after.
Also the St. Maarten Medical Center continues to survive, going back and forth between the Intensive Care Unit and the Recovery Ward like a yoyo. There seems to be a crisis every 3 to 6 months and instead of prescribing the right dosage of anti-biotics they use band-aids, never actually curing the problem.

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