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ExCo requested to reconsider Travel Inn building permits
PHILIPSBURG - The battle between the owners of the controversial Travel Inn project at the entrance of Pelican and their backyard neighbour Cornerstone Fund is not yet over. Although the case was settled in civil court earlier this year in favour of Travel Inn, at the request of lawyer Stefan Fox of Cornerstone a hearing was held on Friday before an advisory committee of the Executive Council. Fox asked once more for the Executive Council to retreat or at least revise the building permits issued to Travel Inn. Lawyer Jelmer Snow and his client Isam Yousuf of Travel Inn were also at the Government Administration Building on Friday to shed light on Travel Inn's side of the story. Also present was a spatial development and management ROB/VROM representative. [More....]
Alliance requests meeting on new govt building, CFT
The Daily Herald - PHILIPSBURG--An Island Council meeting on the progress or the lack thereof on the new Government Building and the remarks of the Committee for Financial Supervision CFT about the 2009 Budget has been convened for Wednesday at 11:00am on request of the National Alliance (NA).
Persecution and Paranoia
My time for blogging has been a little constrained recently, but I have been paying attention, sooooo many things going on that should be blogged about. Regular readers of SXM PE will know what most of my blogs are about developments and the resulting destruction of the environment, so you can imagine my dilemma about what to write about first. It just so happens that today I have a little free time and hope to tackle a few things in blogs this morning, what with Flipper being so busy working on the new site and keeping the library on this one up to date and so few posts here, it's time things got stirred up a bit dontcha think?
The thing is, so many of these stories about ROB, Delano, Public Works, VROM, developments, building violations etc are all linked and intertwined that it's difficult to separate them. But I'm going to try to by starting with the peripherals and fringe stuff so by the time the new site gets launched we can get to the juicy stuff, and boy, do we have something juicy for the launch ;)
Let's start with something light, like Leopold vs Bijnsdorp. :)
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Permits are 'Frivolous Details'
Daily Herald Ad - Enough is enough - 24th February 2008
For almost 4 years now, I and others here at SXM Private Eye have been questioning the operations and decisions of Commissioners and Govt. departments regulating development and building permits. The Dolphinarium, EWE, Dawn Beach, Red Pond, Rainbow, Cupecoy, Red Pond, just about every one mentioned by the NA today has been covered here. For 4 years now we have been covering the sketchy and highly questionable procedures and deals made by our government with developers
So, although late, it's a pleasure to see the Opposition Party finally speak up about it all. You can listen to the IC meeting on St Maarten Island TImes. It's long, but well worth listening to, Frans is especially worth waiting for. It's a shame they have to talk so much BS about developers and Delano though.
Theo's response is pitiful.
Commissioner Heyliger answers questions of NA - 25th February 2009
For more on just about every development mentioned by the NA, see the Development and Destruction Thread.
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