Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society. We must first focus on the root of the problem. We must ask ourselves, "how does the mind of a murderer, rapist, thief or kidnapper develop?'" Perhaps this mind-set is formed from a young age. We should put measures in place, such as extensive school programs, to develop self-esteem and national pride. If all our children were raised with values such as honesty, integrity and patriotism, St.Maarten would be a State built on the basis of law and order. We are faced with a crime situation which is affecting our opportunities for foreign investment and tourism; therefore, we must put in place some short-term solutions. Long-term solutions will eventually make the most impact on our society's crime rate. We need to understand why certain sectors of the community have decided to commit crime. We should equip these people with the tools to help themselves, instead of giving them handouts. I believe that punishment needs to be enforced on anyone who has proven to commit a crime because it sets an example for those who are thinking of doing the same. There is an old saying that says "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime", and many people have not heeded those words of wisdom, and have gone out and committed crimes anyway. Many show little or no remorse for their actions, because doing evil has become second nature to them, so they don't give a crap. So why should we have to pay to educated them. Prison Fellowship has worked with many convicts behind bars over the years, their program called Inner Change Free Initiative, is a re-entry program that is helping prisoners get out, and stay out of prison. One way they do that is to work with them on their anger issues, also helping them respect the law, and the rights of others, and they have seen lives transformed by God. Another program that Prison Fellowship has is called Operation Starting Line. This program is all about seeing lives transformed by the Gospel of Christ. Upon receiving Christ as their Lord and Savior, they are disciple, and grounded in the faith. Only God can change a man on the inside, and change his whole way of living, thinking, and his behavior. Either makes prison life so hard that they never want to go back, put them to death, or let prison fellowship offer them a chance to experience a changed and transformed life. The crime against the Maria Buncamper and he family is a sad situation, but it should be an eye opener to the entire justice system and government, tomorrow it can be Justice Minister Roland Duncan, Prime Minister Sarah Westcott. Governor Eugene Holiday, or Parliament President Gracita Arrindell or Deputy Prime Minister Theo Heliger not forgetting all Judges or chief of police and the lawyers that love defending crime for the love of money. My people treat ever crime that happen in StMaarten like it was your own family. And start turning back to the good moral values which is the key to change our society for the better. Let me be hardcore now, without teaching about Christ in our schools we are breeding generations of criminals. The government programs can never do for a person what God can! Common law has two mechanisms for dealing with criminality: 1. Ostracism via blacklisting serves as a deterrent.2. Persons failing to answer charges and/or recompense their victims would be subjected to outlawry. Ostracism the state of being ban or excluded from society by general consent. Outlawry is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, this takes the burden of active persecution of a criminal from the authorities. Instead, the criminal is withdrawn all legal protection, so that anyone is legally empowered to persecute or kill them. For the wages of sin is death. But if criminals turn away from their wicked ways and ask for forgiveness, the gift of God is everlasting life. To the people of StMaarten and the government of StMaarten we should make it compulsory education to our children about God and Jesus Christ. For that is the best way to fight crime.