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VKS Officer Suspended for Alleged Wrong Doings.

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Philipsburg: --- A female officer of the Voluntary Korps of St. Maarten has been suspended from active duty confirmed Prosecutor Rienk Mud. Mud said his office was not involved in the case and that the police department has since issued disciplinary measures against the officer. The prosecutor said he do not even know what the officer did and why she has been suspended.

SMN News learnt of this case that involves officer Marina Surante of Dominca almost two months ago, when we contacted authorities on the case it was flatly denied. The officer in question has acquired her Dutch nationality making her eligible to be part of the VKS. Sources told this reporter that the officer borrowed monies from someone that was locked up and that she went as far as lending her personal phone to the suspect to call his boss and requested that his employer released the monies to her. It is said the officer has refused to repay the prisoner who decided to speak out. The officer was suspended since over a month now.

SMN News contacted the Commander of the VKS Jean Illidge with the information we received. Illidge confirmed the information and further stated that the officer is suspended indefinitely. He said the police are presently investigating the case and a decision has to be taken by them to see if they would bring criminal charges against her. Illidge said the only reason he could not confirm the case when SMN News contacted him some two months ago was because he was hospitalized and that he had no knowledge of the case at that time.

 

 

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Me Rassssss
October 21, 2009
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Oh plssssssssssss, everybody knows she wrong doing for years!! So Marina Serrant have to pack her bags and head back to DOMINICA, she dont have no shame, she have debts all over sxm, ! All the time you see her in the station from morning unttil night and she still want the prisoners money???? Damnnnnnnnnnn......what a women, everybody yes doing mistake but damn it she is to much, anytime you see her come to you is for money! Well hope they lock up she tail! She's been doing this for a while! Time caught up with you Marina, sit back and think who all you have to go pay their money before you go to jail!! smilies/grin.gif smilies/tongue.gif smilies/shocked.gif smilies/wink.gif

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captain
October 21, 2009
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send her guadeloupe they invade guadeloupe with some terible crimes thief rape murder kill young school girls on their way home from school true the cain field lord help us our government is a real joke 80 percent of guadeloupe prison is from dominica we don't need these people and then they say they build this country how they can't built their own built your own first and then talk to me after well inform

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el loco
October 21, 2009
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well 17 they call her so cause she missing a lot of teeth in her mouth look what you get yourself in, those VKS are terrible they feel they police a set of RENT A COP they so wanna be police they join VKS wow the VKS must raise their standard .

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cought up
October 22, 2009
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well its not all of those VKS is the samething, it have some good ones in them! That organisation help the police alot so stop bad talking them like that el loco come onnnnnn!! yes she missing alot of teeth, i wouldnt mine if she was taking the money to go fix her teeth or go axa or st.dom. to get in shape! hahahaaaa... she done ugly already and she doing more things to be in the ugly picture! And she think she looking hot! In papiamento they does say " E ta MAL AWA". Marina U finally get catch......

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Noensense
October 22, 2009
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Marina is human just like anyone else. She was a hard worker. All this and she will still get back a job back in government. Look former officer-convict F.P. was suspended after he took monies from illegals for their release. It was big news at the time. Now he is working with the island government control unit doing controls, stopping vehicles for inspection and other controls. This makes what Marina did look like chicken feed. Marina, ask for a job by island government. if F.P. can get a job there, so can you.

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pls
October 22, 2009
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to el loco
you should stop of one sunday at the training of the vks and you would see they teach you discipline and every sunday the comandant say a pray for them and warned them not to get in these type of mix up. the vks is a very good organization it's just that they been working so long with the police that some of them starting to think like them , it don't mean that they think the are police just they have to perform the same work as the police do unless you all want curacoa to come back and then the vks can go back to there normal day to day living. i stand on sundays and look on. so this sunday come and look how hard they trained.and ask your self if these guys was cops how the police force would have been.

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A DOMINICAN
October 22, 2009
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I JUST HAVE TO SAY, I WOULD LIKE TO KISS THE REPORTER THAT DID THIS ARTICLE. THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING WERE MY COUTRY PEOPLE FROM. MISS SERRANT FEEL SHE FROM HERE. SHE USED TO TREAT PEOPLE WHO NOT FROM HERE LIKE ANIMALS, LIKE SHE DIDN'T COME IN A BANANA BOAT HERSELF.

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mario
October 22, 2009
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yeah yeah as was said VKS them should know their place and stop trying to be police these days anyone that can drive fast and know how to work a sirene can become a police , so let them wanna be cops go and take the test as their country needs them. VKS have people in it that cannot even speak dutch but wanna be in station. It should be an organisation for only dutch persons not naturalized dutch, by the way sheriff security and vks have more staff then the police, you will never see the gendarmes with these clows.

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Didi
October 22, 2009
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you see what happens to those that come sxm get naturalized and get a job. they forget where they came from, hope she learns her lesson, she should know better, no excuse for this wether is police or vks no excuse. her own country people talk about her. shame on you 17.

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pls
October 22, 2009
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if you all know she use to treat people like animals you all should have gone and file a complained on her on all she did. now some one ells did it you all have so much to say. what she did is wrong if she did it. but you all should stop this thing. when they hold someone so much you all have to say. be man and woman and tel them hey what you all doing is wrong and i shall report it. but then again you all just like them. and i sure many of you who here talking don't do better.

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PITY
October 22, 2009
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People it is a shame the way you guys ridicule this young lady. Like her or not, she is human. I am more than sure most of you have your own private issues. For those that have children no one knows what they will turn out to be. Let us think on our children and use wisdom in how we point fingers while we are pointing there is one always pointing back.

It is a pity as a Caribbean People we dislike one another some because they come from a country that is not as advance as our island. I believe in the Region and the Caribbean as a people. Remember today we are up who knows what tomorrow will bring and which country we will have to go too. Migrating did not just begin it has been in existance since the beginning of time.

Pity we act like unloved children.

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skillzz
October 22, 2009
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It is so easy for the slected uneducated individuals to sit here and bash the VKS organization because 1 person fouled up. Yes what she did if proven is wrong and she should be dealt with. However, the fact is as a VKS member you are asked to assist in certain areas and presently the organization assist with the Police and prison institution. Now one point i want to make is that for you we are wanna be cops, but as i say it easy to sit behind your computer and watch crime take over your island and not care. If my assistants to the police force helps get 1 person off the road that does not need to be there , or come to your assistants when u and your wife or mother and father cant agree then i feel like i did my part after 8 hours. within that 8 hours what did you do other than kick people when they down or just simply sit and act like crime dont bother you. If your mind allows you to sleep at night with that type of attitude then carry on, however i will continue to do what i can to help my island of St. Maarten. Thats why i joined.

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More
October 22, 2009
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Yes they take it out on on her but when it was Barbie doll and all her wrongdoings they sweep in under the rug. marina, im praying for you.

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Shame
October 23, 2009
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I am so ashame with this ariticle, why do we have to pin point that she is from Dominica, please if anyone know Marina, the girl been on St. Maarten since she was a baby, she did all her schooling and working on St. Maarten. She did not get naturilalized the other day, the girl became a Dutch citizen since she was a young girl. Now what she did is wrong and she should be penalized for it, but to those ignorant people, the VKS should not be penalized. While these men and woman out there helping our police fight crime and instore justice on the island, What are you doing?, Are you out there fighting crime also, or are you running to a VKS when you see one for help and rescue. Like someone else pointed out there are other VKS officers who committed crimes (Barbie Doll) but I guess they were allowed to do it because they are a St. Maartener. And like someone menitioned before, we had police officers who committed fraud, involved in drug pushing and where are they now? Some employed with the traffic control department, some employed at the Fire Station and others are out and about in Government jobs. So please be people stop being bias to one and acceptable to others.

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Skillzz
October 23, 2009
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I must say it seems for a selected few persons to be able to sit and hide behind their computers and chat the nonsense that noone else wants to hear. You can look at it how you want, but jealousy is a bad thing. The VKS is an organization that at the end of the day been asked to assist the police organization. At the end of the day no matter how small of a crime we may have assisted in preventing, the fact is we did something. I sit here and ask, what did you do by sitting behind your computer talking about we want to be cops. The fact is crime is all over the island and atleast we were brave enough to put our lives and families in jepardy to help out where we can no matter how big or small. What did you do other than criticizing a positive effort. In everything you do you will always find those that will be sid tracked, however that does not prove that the entire organization is this way. Dont be blind and dumb. Your negative remarks will never break us, because at the end of the day, we have St. Maarten at heart, i wonder if you do.

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Jesus loves me
October 23, 2009
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There is good and bad cops but in sxm there are
of cops that's are still in wrong doings they need
to be fair.there is to much friend stuff with police on the dutch side
especially . They must to their job and stop
harrasing people who work hard to make alivingY

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Sherry
October 23, 2009
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Shame, your name speaks for you. Are you shame of where you are from or your compatriot?

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Anti- discrimator
October 23, 2009
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It is very sad to learn that this vks's has gone on the bad side i used to see her and admire how she takes her job so seriuos and always certious when someone goes to the station with a problem. It is a bigger pity that the reporter choose to highlight that she was not born in St. Maarten but in Dominica. This lady mother actually concieved her here went Dominca to have her and bought her back when she was a baby. she did all her schooling here and choose to become a VKS's working without pay for many years giving back to her community. Now that she has done something wrong the journalist choose to go back in her history to hightight where she was born. If she had won an olymoic medal for St. Maarten would there be mentioned of where she was born. It is a shame that we Black people are so always quick to discrimate each other based on where we were born. They are no different to the white man that used to put us down many years ago just because of the colour of our skins. Shame on the bloggers for being discrimative. Is that how St. Maarten is gonna get its new status by discriminating each other no matter how long you have leaved on the sland and made your contributions. Look at the great U.S.A as an exmaple no matter where you come from once you become naturalized you are an American period. STOP THIS DISCRIMINATION IN ST. MAARTEN....

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Attitude change
October 23, 2009
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She had hard times maybe tomorrow she will come by a fortune and pay back double to those she took from. She was the right person for the job, but the job was not good to her. You need money, donations to raise a family. Some times people need help but are afraid to ask. On the OJ talk show everybody is complaining about the high cost of living, so why not try to understand her plight? The way things are going in sxm you never know where you might end up or what you might have to do to feed your family. Keep the faith! Think positive!

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trouble
October 23, 2009
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to those of you who think a vks is a rent a cop. get your big fat A.. of the cumputer and join the police force.the police force have many of the vks who you all calling rent a cops are cops today. it's the same rent a cops you all calling on to help when you all get rob, the same rent a cops that goes at the school to help protect you all kids, the same rent a cops when you all A.. is sleeping at night out there helping protect your country, the same rent a cops when huricanes is one they spend sleepless night in a shelter leaving there family at home to come out and help you all big fat A.. thanks you VKS for without you all the police force can do much more than they use to do in helping fight crime.

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Shame
October 23, 2009
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To Sherry, I am a born St. Maartener, the difference is that I am an educated St. Maartener, unlike many of you who sit there and discriminate or criticize a whole organization for the wrong doing of one member.
If you had any kind of good sense you and others would have blogged something sensible and not nonsense. It is a pity how many uneducated, slow, dumb and bias people we have living on my island, and guess what not all are illegals, most are "I BORN HERE" people.

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camika
October 23, 2009
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you guys talking hog wash I am also of the opinion if these guys wanna fight crime join the force but they are too dumb they join the VKS to be able to carry a gun and impress who. I am also of the opinion thet are RENT A COP , to be a police officer you must master the dutch language and be able to write summons and take a statement and these dummies cannot do that let them come out for hurricane keep them out of police station. How can the police keep working with them and they cannot understand basic dutch. RENT A COP the SXM police force needs you talk with RICARDO HENSON

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911
October 23, 2009
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I am sure if they could not drive the police cars and work in the station they will never become VKS I know of individuals that had a job / business (barber) gave up his job to work 24 hours there , thus VKS is a job placement center, what a shame.

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Steel
October 23, 2009
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To SHAME : For your information, your barbie doll (Bernice Charles) is not a St. Maartener. She is a Kittitian, so know what you talking before you talk. Do your homework and stop the hating,........punk !!!

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Steel
October 23, 2009
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To SHAME : For your information , your barbie doll (Bernice Charles) is not a St. Maartener. She is a Kittitian. So know what you talking before you talk. Do your dammm homework first and stop hating,.........lil punk !!!

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Rise
October 23, 2009
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Marina will rise, watch you will see. Once convicted cop is heading the controls now at Economic affairs and he is the one that we should be greatly for shutting down Carls , Sangs et al. I cant see what all the fuss is about. Merx has his own law firm and owns half of SXM at the moment. Dont talk about Marcel.

When Barbie doll was helping criminals and the whole force had know and had many proof, nothing happen. Marina will go to Dca to plant bananas and she will survive. We can plant bananas but all you cannot plant tourist.

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Stop it
October 23, 2009
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I totally agree with Anti- discriminator. Listen we are not happy with what has happened. It's a pity.... but what good is it to sit here and bring down the whole VKS organization for this.
We are not perfect. We all know that. Some of us may be a little stronger than others. But that doesn't warrent us attacking each other with ugly insinuations and statements.
Remember we all want Separate Status, but if we continue like this people, we are not going to reach very far.
The young lady or no-one else deserves this kind of slander.
Remember she is a daughter, she is a sister and she is a mother. Ofcourse you can say but she didnt remember that when she did what was wrong. And I will agree with you.
But her family is having a difficult time enough dealing with the situation and now this ???
Please ppl there's a saying "when you point one finger at me, four are pointing back at you".
Let's stop throwing stones at your neighbor class doors and windows
The bible says: "he who is without sin, let him cast the first stone"

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