Philipsburg: --- Well-known photojournalist and former bailiff of the prosecutor’s office of St. Maarten Gromyko Wilson has reacted to the comments made prosecutor Rienk Mud who said there is no bailiff for criminal cases on St. Maarten.
In a letter to this website, Wilson explained how and when he was appointed bailiff on St. Maarten and the procedures used by a certain judge to get rid of him.
Wilson in his letter said the same comments prosecutor Mud is making today he as well as his lawyer tried convincing the court of the consequences this would cause to no avail.
He said that in 1996 the acting attorney general sent an advice to the government of the Netherlands Antilles indicating that there was no bailiff for criminal cases on St. Maarten. Wilson said he was employed in 1996 to work as bailiff, he took up office here as of August that same year.
Wilson provided detail information on how he was hired and what transpired before the prosecutor’s office managed to get rid of him by making his position obsolete. The entire content of the statement can be found in our letters section.
