Philipsburg/Guyana:--- Five of the seven suspects that were arrested on March 28th as suspects of a crime ring that were selling false Guyanese passports, false St. Maarten residency papers and identification cards have been deported to Guyana. Three of the suspects were deported weeks after they were arrested but the two main suspects identified as Bibi Yasmin Hussain and Katip Kholadin were deported on Saturday May 7th and they were subsequently arrested in Guyana when they arrived there. Two of the seven suspects that were arrested were released since they were in possession of valid working papers for St. Maarten. The two suspects that left St. Maarten on Saturday had to request travel documents from authorities in Guyana so that they could have travelled back home. Hussain told authorities on St. Maarten that she had lost her passport while Kholadin could not use the false document he was in possession of when arrested.
Hussain and her two sons were arrested on March 28th after police arrested and interrogated her third son who was caught with a false St. Maarten's identification card and residency papers. The suspect Katip Kholadin was also in possession of a valid Guyanese passport that was issued with a deceased man's birth certificate. While the passport bore the photograph of Katip Kholadin, the information such as name and date of birth belonged to a deceased person, whose name was Anthony Jamesie. Police on St. Maarten also released the $34,700 they found during the house search on St. Maarten. According to information provided to SMN News, one of Hussain's son's who was working as a bartender claimed the money belonged to him since he did not have a bank account.
SMN News learnt that police on St. Maarten bungled the investigation, thus giving lawyers who represented the suspects the upper-hand while the suspects were in pre-trial detention. Police say they did not have enough evidence to prosecute the suspects, therefore, they felt it was a best to deport them to Guyana where the crime of falsifying documents was committed.
Guyana's Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said he is aware of the case where several Guyanese nationals were arrested with falsified documents but one of the setbacks authorities in Guyana are facing is the lack of cooperation from St. Maarten's authorities. Persaud said the suspects were arrested some weeks ago in St. Maarten and up to last week he did not receive the documents that were confiscated by the authorities on St. Maarten. Photocopies of the fake Guyanese passports were submitted to Guyana's Consulate in Antigua to verify if the travel documents were authentic or not. However, Persaud said they are not able to work with photocopies of falsified documents to prosecute suspects.
Persaud said he was out of the country last week and he is not able to say whether or not the Commissioner of Police received those documents during his absence. The crime chief said that suspects can only be held for a maximum of 72 hours in Guyana .
Guyana's Crime Chief said that an investigation will be launched to determine how Katip Kholadin managed to get someone to authenticate his photograph which allowed him to apply for a Guyana Passport with someone else's birth certificate.
In meantime, St. Maarten's Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos said that St Maarten and Guyana does not have a working treaty and if Guyana's Justice System (Crime Chief or Commissioner of Police) wants information from St. Maarten they can always make an official request for the evidence (documents that were confiscated) or information which will be given to Guyana's authorities even though there is no treaty. Mos said St. Maarten just cannot send information to another country if it is not requested and those requesting the information also have to state what they intend to do with the information they are requesting. Documents and evidence that were seized have to pass through a certain chain of command when it is used in the criminal justice system Mos said.
It should be noted that while there are over 4000 Guyanese nationals residing on St. Maarten, Guyana still does not have an appointed representative on the island to represent Guyanese. Therefore, prosecuting suspects with falsified documents seems almost impossible.
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10-05-2011 00:01 |Unregistered| the Godfather
Minister of the Justice I hope they will not be allowed to come back to the country next 4 weeks. Are they permanently banded from entering our country? Please tell me you have fixed this loop hole in the immigration law?
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10-05-2011 00:23 |Unregistered| Am I reading correctly?
"Two of the seven suspects that were arrested were released since they were in possession of valid working papers for St. Maarten."
You are a foreigner. You are a suspect in an organized crime ring. You have not been convicted as yet. However, you are released from police custody because you have working papers!!!
You are driving without a licence. You break the traffic rules. You caused death: vehicular homicide due to your gross negligence. You are a foreigner without valid documents (since 2002) to be living on the island. You are released from police custody because you finally have an application in to get valid documents.
WHAT KIND OF BLOODY HOGWASH IS THIS???
A medieval justice system was better organized and more logical than the crap that we have on St. Maarten today. No wonder the Dutch were very concerned in giving status apart with the kind of justice system we have. The funniest part of this joke (irony) is that the justice system here is crawling with the same Dutch: judges, prosecutors, chief of police, marechaussees, regular police. So, truth be told, who is really frigging up our justice system? You guessed it -- the Dutch.
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10-05-2011 00:57 |Unregistered| ?
I thought they say the Marechaussee are so better than the locals. Can anyone tell me what the hell happen here with people that had false documents and still no charges.
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10-05-2011 02:16 |Unregistered| Lets keep all the bad eggs
These stories are getting more comincal by the day. We have specialize Dutch detectives on St.Maarten and we are still screwing up these types of cases.
Why don't the prosecutor tell the truth and sing the melody of " No Space in Prison", consequently the release of these enemies of the state. On the other hand, out member of Parliament collect their inflated salaries and have not pa**ed one law or made provisions to bring one law regarding crime or anything else to the floor of Parliament.
I do agree with some of the moves being made by the Minister Duncan. However, I'm very dissapointed in the Dutch in prosecuting these cases. St.Maarten people are crying out for stronger justice.
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10-05-2011 03:30 |Unregistered| waooo
i tought united states was the land of opportunity! but st maarten beat it ten times ! lol it come do your crime and go home scotch free!! what is next? what kind of example are we setting for our own youth? that it is ok to do crime because you will not go jail for long even if you are guilty ? lol this is a joke! or best yet f the police can t get enough evidence or if they keep you too long in pretrail detention you will get away? waoo amzing !! instead of our parliamentarians spend time beckering on talk shows this is what needs to be attended to ! this is why we pay tax so high! and still this b.s! may God help st marteen!
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10-05-2011 08:24 |Unregistered| Peter Gunn
OUTRAGE: Government recently released 18 criminal convicts plus the Guyenese Crime Ring and WILL be releasing MORE from the police holding cells and Point Blanche into the community, because of overcrowding. They will be back on our shores shortly via St. kitts or Angualla on a fishing or banana boat.
Holland closed SEVEN prisons last year. Charter a KLM 747 and send them there
Or Mr. Duncan, Put tents in the prison compound and give them pink silk underware to cope with our hot St. Maarten days.
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10-05-2011 09:18 |Unregistered| i hate guyanese
I don’t like Guyanese, they are the worst people in sxm (my opinion), and I’m talking from experience. They come here with their superior complex, they are only to take and destroy, not to build, but we sxm fellows from the French side have corrected that complex many time over. They think because there are Guyanese, they automatically better, not true. I just love to see their faces when they realize that are not supermen.
If more sxm people had balls were like my friends and I, everyone would respect us, and crimes would be to a low
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10-05-2011 09:27 |Unregistered| Crowbar
Stop complaining folks it will just increase your presure. Take the situation in hand when you get the chance. Crime is a business. It will go on with or without you if you continue crying in the wilderness. May 21,2011 is said to be the end of the world by the christian fanatics. Instead swing as much as you can between now and then. God will bless those of you who do, and damn those that do nothing. This colony sxm will become a society of mules if the good people remain silent. The Judicial system is an a**.
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10-05-2011 09:34 |Unregistered| Pleaser!
Mos, what the f---k are you doing in St. Maarten? It seems that you came here to avenge some beef you had with sxm. Or you are as stupid as a donkey? When was the last time you prosecuted a case and won? You have Sxm looking like a laughing stork. This so-called justice system is in the process of breeding terrorists. A young man out there cannot find a job, every time it is go come back, he reads about a guyanese criminal who is working and makes $34,700.00 and he is set free to roam the streets of Sxm or take that money back to Guyana? What is there for him/her to do? When will his/her turn come around? All hope is lost :sad:. To hell with it all, time to strike back? but at who? Should the innocent pay for the guilty? Judges and prosecutors right now you are moving around on Sxm so take heed of your actions? Just food for thought :o :sad:
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10-05-2011 09:57 |Unregistered| Crowbar
Mos and others are not qualified to work in Holland therefore they are sent here to practice. It's like a dumping ground. In the US the government keeps that money, but on sxm they are unable to determine illicit from legitimate gain. People need to organize and start taken out those that deserves to be taken out. Hired prof. can be had it"s just a talk away. Let us bring sanity back to this island. All in all please don"t die alone. God would hate you.
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10-05-2011 12:01 |Unregistered| ??????
who bungled the investigation? Was in done by mistake,because of unprofesionalism, or willfully?
Questions someone should answer to. To many times we hear that mistakes were made in the investigation. Hard to believe. We never heard those things when we have our own local boys taking care of things. What happend to them?
This smells like fish. I understood that these people are some way connected to the kingping guyanese.
What a thing shappening on this island. All prosecutors should be screend before they come here.
Its like them and the so called specialized detectives and the Marrechaussee come here on vacation.
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10-05-2011 13:09 |Unregistered| Captain Zen
He got $34.700 back, the rest they keep to themselves. They never give it all. If the guy worked a bar, for $800 a month and paid rent 200, food 100 he needed at least 5 1/2 years, you believe that? What a hogwash all this. Keep the money if he has no receipts or proof of how he got it.
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10-05-2011 13:47 |Unregistered| SXMHELPSSXM
CRIME DOES PAY
Many law abiding citizens on Sint Maarten are often wondering why criminals are getting away with a “slap on the wrist” after committing a crime. If someone’s home is invaded, a person has to stare into the barrel of a gun when an armed robbery is taking place or is being raped, it will leave emotional scars for the rest of h...is/her life. In no time the criminal is out on the streets and might face his/her victim with a smile on his/her face.
We are of the opinion that crime does pay. Commit forty robberies, get a mild sentence for one and continue doing what you are doing. No long work days, no supervisor, unlimited vacation days, decent pay etc. There are enough vacancies for criminals. You don’t need to apply anywhere. You can start anytime you feel like.
Our system is weak and malfunctioning. Two elements can be applied to (possible) criminals/criminal acts: Prevention and Reprisal. Prevention can be achieved by educating possible criminals and by educating possible victims to protect their selves and their property. Reprisal is needed when a crime has been committed. We need to educate our people and we need harsher punishments on criminals. We will leave it to your imagination of what kind of punishment is needed for criminals.
Question: Why all this bickering about relatively minor issues by our members of parliament and not taking the bull by the horns and make some major decisions which could improve our daily lives drastically?
This was posted on the group page SXMHELPSSXM on Facebook
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10-05-2011 13:54 |Unregistered| wait a minute
That the way the should operate notify the authorities in their native country then send them back so they can lock them up. They should not have gotten back the money either. Should have gone in the cuffers.
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10-05-2011 16:37 |Unregistered| Hold up one minute!!!!
Hhhhmmmm. The suspects can only be held 72 hours (3 days) if no evidence of their crime is presented.
Meaning ..... they left SXM on May 7th. Guyana did not, officially, request the original pa**ports so SXM will not send them.
Today is May 10th. MEANING ....... the suspects are out on the streets again, making travel arrangements to return to SXM by this weekend.
Who is trying to fool who. This is just a big joke.
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10-05-2011 16:52 |Unregistered| Circus
Country SXM. One big circus ran by a bunch of clowns. People, please protect your selves, your family and your property from outside misfits that the clowns are allowing the world to have a jolly old laugh at us.
We will one day say, enough is enough and as they say. He who laugh last, laughs the best.
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10-05-2011 16:58 |Unregistered| YES
CRIME DOES PAY.
YOU MUST COME BACK IN THE NEXT LIFE AS A WHORE OR A THIEF
OR
KNOW SOMEBODY THAT HAS CONTACTS IN GOVERNMENT.
SET FREE A CRIME RING???????????????????
WHO ARE THEY?????????????
WHY AREN'T WE SEEING THE PICTURES????????????????
ST.MAARTEN PEOPLE BLIND?????????????????????
WE SAW ALL BROOKS TOWER PEOPLE.
WE SAW EVERYBODY THAT WAS ARRESTED, AND WAS ST.MAARTENERS.
WHY CAN'T WE SEE THE GUYANESE?????????????
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11-05-2011 04:26 |Unregistered| Pleaser!
This site is guyanese owned?
But loving it! ;-) Grin and bear it? :o
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11-05-2011 06:02 |Unregistered| sxmer
since crime do pay, and we can't change it, we should go along with it, we should have our own mafia, and make some money like everyone else
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11-05-2011 07:43 |Unregistered| ..
A medieval justice system was better organized and more logical than the crap that we have on St. Maarten today. No wonder the Dutch were very concerned in giving status apart with the kind of justice system we have. The funniest part of this joke (irony) is that the justice system here is crawling with the same Dutch: judges, prosecutors, chief of police, marechaussees, regular police. So, truth be told, who is really frigging up our justice system? You guessed it -- the Dutch
Please take note: Am I reading correctly?
May 10, 2011
72.252.9.52 In the Netherlands---- Criminals, such as violent killers, robbers, rapists, pedophiles -their own people mostly- are given FORCED VACATIONS, and are set FREE for a couple of weeks out of prison. Some 'smart ones' never return.
Did you know that prostitutes must register their business at one of the many Chambers of Commerce & get a BTW , ToT registration number with the tax office in order to legally be a whore?
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11-05-2011 07:56 |Unregistered| Shooz
@....:
You are mixing sense and non-sense in a high speed. The Dutch Antilles had a law system based on the Ducth system. Over the years, laws have been amended and introduced in Holland. The law in the Dutch Antilles remained in overal remained outdated with few implementations. You are blaming the Ducth for that? Isn't our government responsible for allowing two more whore houses in this tiny little country? What do you want to imply with how the Dutch register their prositutes? Does Sint Maarten have local judges, prosecutors, marechaussees and enough policemen and policewomen? No? Where you want to get them from then? If it wasn't for the Ducth we would be far from being able to at least function in some kind how in some basic area's. I am praying that our "golden boy" is not pursuing his dream to become independent. Who are you going to blame then?
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11-05-2011 08:42 |Unregistered| c
there i so much ppl that complain on this site yet still they cant come out and face the government and tell them how they suffering in st maaten they hide behind their computer and blame everyone for things happening here yet still when they see something happen they blame the police force they never come in time or never show up come out behind your computers and speak ya heart and say what u feel start to protest u will get help.it is too much hating going on in sxm we all come from diff back ground and diff country when one of ours mess up the whole country get bad name there is good and bad in everyone we are not angels . when u stop hating and start to take matters in your own hands then the place will be a better place. the world is a good place but is the ppl in the world that make it so bad.
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Good riddance! STAY OUT AND KEEP OUT. :sad: