Please allow for me to bring the following under your kind attention.
Over the years, you have been a very powerful-, trustworthy-, and dependable voice of-, and for the native St. Martin people on this island.
As such you have not forgotten-, nor betrayed your own deep-, ancestral roots in this community.
In addition, as a 'roving ambassador' you travel all over the globe meeting-, and maintaining contact with many St. Martiners living in the diaspora.
In contrast to your commitment to our St. Martin people- and our heritage, it appears that a number of call-in radio programs
have given up on being a platform allowing for the native St. Martin voices to express their concerns about the fate of their island-nation.
Some of these programs have been actually transformed into surrealistic sort of 'bill-boards' promoting queen- & pageant shows-, and all kinds of relatively irrelevant 'international' issues, deliberately- and systematically refusing to deal with the issues of immediate- and critical concerns to the very existence of grass roots St. Martin people.
This systematic denial of the facts 'on the ground', clearly constitutes a contributing factor towards the 'fueling' of many of our social problems, not in the last place of crime- and youth delinquency.
Against the backdrop of the constitutional developments, such as the draft constitution for Country St. Maarten which denies our St. Martin identity, there is an escalating 'backlash' originating from grass roots St. Martiners.
Many expect this social discontent to have the potential to end up into a level of uncontrollable social violence the island has never known before.
However, it can not be denied as well, that there is a growing number of responsible-, proud-, concerned-, and very conscious St. Martiners who are publicly expressing the sentiments of many, if not all St. Martiners.
In addition, they clearly are the 'peacemakers' and the 'architects' of the St. Martin 'social solution'.
Allow me therefore to humbly recommend that you dedicate a number of installments to this development, where the politicians are going into one directions, while the grass roots St. Martin people are refusing to follow suite.
These 'peacemakers' and 'architects' are people with deep ancestral roots all across the island and who therefore hold the 'key' of the 'Friendly island' to the 'way forward' making it a 'paradise' for all.
Some of these people are; Miguel ARRINDELL, Kenneth COOK, Theophilus PRIEST, Julien PETTY, Daniella JEFFRY, Aline CHOISIE, Max CHOISIE, Jeffrey RICHARDSON, 'Baige'RICHARDSON.
Meanwhile I, Leopold JAMES, your humble servant will always be at the service of my St. Martin people.
Thank you so much brother Greg and continue being a very strong advocate for our St. Martin people.
If 'charity does not start at home' for us native St. Martiners right here in our own ancestral home-land, there will NEVER be peace-, safety-, prosperity, let alone any sustainable development-, nor any meaningful 'Country' St. Maarten.
Greg, the people need you more than ever !
With respect,
Leopold JAMES
