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CRIME CRIME CRIME

PRIME MINISTERS /MINESTERS BUSY ENRICHING THEM SELVES.

NO ONE IS SPEAKING TO THE POPULATION...................
NOT EVEN THE GOUVERNOUR....

SO MUCH WRONG DOINGS...
AND IT'S OK..........

EMPLOYEES ARE BEING ABUSE......
NO WHERE TO TURN.....

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY BILLS.....
NO BODY CARES............

hmm Now something needs to be done to protect we the citizens and the tourism industry which is very fragile-take note elected officials-stop enriching yourselves and families but take care of the issues at hand, health,education,employment and security, there is soo much we the people can do but you need to do your part also.

again we are going to blame the authorities here. But at the time of this there are a lot of people who saw this happen and no one is willing to help stop this by giving information on these pigs who are destroying sxm and everyone livelyhood in the proces. We just sit and critize. Let us do our part. It is time that some much people can be scare of a few pigs who are doing this. It is our problem. No ships/tourist. You, me, your mother, father, sister ect out of a job. Legal or illegal.

I agree with again, we the community see the wrong things happening and we don't report or say anything. They just want fast money, they don't want to pump gas, pack bags, do construction work, the don't want to wash cars. all they want is nice expensive things and what they do for it rob and steal. They should start giving long term jail sentence and hard labor. We the community need to start snitching as they would call it and get them lock up.

i agree with again and hard worker,insted off building s**t build a big b**ching jail and build it for 500 inmates.then we see where we go from there .make their family feed them and stop that the tax payers monie to feed them f**king people their people will know how it feel to be rob and print them in the paper

This is a big problem. We need to see the big picture here. This is not the time nor the space to continue with political statements about enrichment. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, but please, please look at the big picture.
It seams as though crew members and guests on cruise ships are the target. This is the third or fourth such incident.
If it is indeed true that this incident was witnessed and no one is coming forward, makes is even worse of a situation for all of us.
My point is, if politicians do wrong, sooner or later, they will pay. Crime does not pay, not for the small guy robbing and surely not for the elected official committing fraud. They will be dealt with.
However, the crime situation is something that all of us are threatened with daily. I hope and pray that it never happens, but we all know that the only time we stop and realize the seriousness of crime is when we are the victims. In this case, we are all the victims.
What if the cruise line (s) decide to stop a ship (s) from calling on St Maarten? Who suffers? Taxi drivers, less head tax, less customers in Phillipsburg, less visitors taking tours and purchasing, in other words, less money in the economy of St Maarten.
Has anyone driven by the cruise terminal and see the amount of individuals outside, stalking and hara*sing our visitors? Have you seen how these individuals look like? What they drive?
This has to be stopped.
I don't believe in just writing and not presenting solutions, so here is what i suggest:
Declare the ares where cruise pa*sengers and the crew members walk as tourist areas and introduce laws and regulations that punishes crimes committed in these areas with the full force, double or triple the regular punishment.
Publish full names and pictures of those who commits these crimes, so that the general public is aware of who these monsters are, and will hopefully report them to the authorities if they are seen in tourist areas again.
Get rid of these individuals from the cruise facilities. Taxi drivers should unite and write to the justice department seeking a*sistance to get rid of these people.
If these individuals are not there, crew and pa*sengers have to use the taxis. Simple.
And finally, business places, all, including these clubs, should hire security, install cameras and make the areas around there locations safe. In the end, they are the first to suffer directly. We can be sure that crew members from this particular ship will be hesitant to visit this club again, after what happened to one of their own. And, further more, there are other clubs. The first to feel this effect is the club where this happened.
It would not surprise me that our authorities have now received serious warnings from cruise lines or a*sociations.
We have to come together and deal with this. I have put forward what i believe should be done.
This concerns all of us.

too much crime. Break-inns, stealing. and the follow day the Boat is being load up and all that you have work hard for leave the Port, never to be seen again.

WHAT IF THE SUSPECT IS THE SON OF ONE OF THE POLICE OFFICER.
THAT TOO NEED TO BROUTH UP TO THE LIGHT

The Fish Rots from the head !

It is a waste of time to fight crime when our leaders keep setting the wrong example...

The day will come when our sweet sxm land will one day sink, no matter the french side or dutch side we are 1 sxm, their is no other caribbean island have the special paradise we offer and we are at risk if crime rate don't go down

Of course this is wrong and of course we have to deal with the crime situation, but what was this guy doing in an alley next to an adult entertainment club in a country he isn't familair with??? I mean this is asking for trouble, i'm sorry. I find that people also have to take responsibility for their own safety. In any place in the world where a lot of people live close together and where a lot of tourists come you will see crime. Especially in the vicinity of brothels....And brothels we have enough on this island....

@ sorry but

Are the brothels workers taking your job from you
you don´t make enought money

may be you not so pretty as they

go get a make up or plastic surgery.

like that you can give them competition.

Check the sucker garden boys them

@ SXMman

Fully agree with you.
The people can do whatever good they want.
But as long our government is behaving like criminals, that is the tone other would be criminals will follow.
If Sarah sets the wrong example, which Roy follows, which Maria follows, then that is what john doe will also do.... follow the leader.
With criminals at the head of any state, can on ereally expect a safe society ?

@CONCERN

you missed the point i was trying to make. I don't want to take anything away from the girls who work in adult entertainment clubs.
I'm just saying that usually in the vicinity of these kind of establishments you have a higher risk of being confronted with crime. Same in the alleys of Amsterdam's red light district etc.

The "people" that are doing these crimes are not realizing that, by committing crime against such like people (tourist) is given us a really bad reputation that we already most likely have, to be completely honest, times are getting harder, people are getting even more desperate, cost of living and everything else is increasing except the salary, I don't blame whoever done this 100 % but we have to check the reality of the situation, there are days I feel like doing the same, and guess what?...I have diplomas and certificates from the UK and can't get a job! they obviously want us to sell drugs or thief, what the F*@K do we do?