The St. Martin Cultural ID-card is intended to serve a number of purposes, of which the following are some examples.
- To allow for native, indigenous St. Martin people, to be able to demonstrate their St. Martin cultural heritage-, or identity, (in addition to whatever nationality they might have)
- To allow for the ID-cardholders, to identify and bond with one another, as native, indigenous St. Martin people as well as to their home-land, St. Martin/St. Maarten,
- To allow for the card-holders to demonstrate pride and dignity in their heritage, history, culture and unity as one indivisible people,
- To allow for St. Martiners to eventually become a very strong and significant group or constituency, thereby elevating themselves from being a disadvantaged and despised 'minority' in their own land,
- To allow for the card-holders/St.Martiners as a constituency to be in a stronger position to negotiate for better conditions/affirmative action in their own land etc.
- To allow for the card-holders to benefit from all the advantages of the Treaty of Concordia (including right to use whatever license to drive anywhere on the island)
Etc.
This list goes on and on.
However for strategic reasons, at this time, we will not go into any detail.
It is the choice of every St. Martiner to apply for the card, or not, that is their right.
The main criteria for St. Martiners to qualify for their ID-cards, is to prove their roots on the island, dating back to, the 1963 Landmark Year.
Others, however those interested persons, who are no St. Martiners by heritage, can also qualify for our ID-card, based on being of an 'added value' to our country.
From our experience thus far, this group is showing great interest in our card for obvious reasons.
To secure that their next generation are considered St. Martiners.
Let this be a message, in and of itself, to all St. Martiners of heritage !
Click here to view/download application form.