In just about a week, St. Martin has been burdened with 5 violent deaths, shocking the community. It is really sad what is going on, and as is my natural reaction I ask myself why. Why have we descended into this malaise that seems to be getting worse everyday? Now we all know that the ones we voted for seem increasingly unable to deal with this situation because of incompetence (at least in my opinion).
We as a people can’t simply wait any longer for another violent crime to be committed, we need to start to complain in the form of writing letters to our representatives and demanding that something be done. Roy Marlin’s regular chorus of blaming the Central Government should not be accepted. It will only be a matter of time before we get to the level of Compton when people are shot almost on a daily basis.
It’s time for the local Government to petition the Central Government to stiffen the laws to make any kind of violent crime and gun possession a serious crime. Additionally, the authorities need to start getting a grip on this so called gang activity. I mean to the level where they see a young group of boys in colors and they stop them to search them on a daily basis. In other words harass them until colors are no longer worn anywhere on St. Maarten. They also need to start to get young boys off ‘THE BLOCK” all over the island. Organize activities to get them being productive members of society. Lastly, we need to do some serious immigration controls on both sides of the island. For this I believe that both sides need to receive assistance from France and Holland.
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