Meanwhile, as we predicted many years ago, the situation is escalating to a point that it will boil down to 'We versus them', with various types of 'we's and 'thems' depending on the issue.
In this case clearly the 'We's' are the local (native?) St.Martiners versus, the 'foreigners'.
Case in point.
See also attached Letter to editor in the Daily Herald of Friday, March 13, 2009 "We accepted you !' written by Marinka GUMBS, a very professional, descent and conscious native St. Martin young lady.
What makes this case even more interesting is that this lady is the daughter of Ramona THOMAS, right hand of Commissioner and Leader of Government, Sarah WESCOTT-WILLIAMS.
Mrs. THOMAS now finds herself at odds with residents, mainly non-St. Martiners, who are protesting her constructing a building on a property, considered too small for the building to be constructed.
Meanwhile, Government appears more and more to be stuck in a 'morass' of bad-governance and corruption as a consequence of which the island is set on a 'collosion-course', like recently in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
For regular updates on this ongoing development go to www.stmartinnation.org
Leopold JAMES
