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Flag Day Celebrated --- Minister of Culture Boycotted Ceremony.

flagraising13062011Philipsburg:--- June 13th, Flag Day was celebrated with a toast, march by the police and VKS in front of the Government Administration Building on Monday morning. While the parliamentarians, the governor of St. Maarten drs. Eugene Holiday and some members of the Council of Ministers joined the ceremony Minister of Culture Rhoda Arrindell was not present. Arrindell, SMN News learnt was not in favor of celebrating the St. Maarten Flag thus leaving the Prime Minster and her cabinet to put the ceremony together on short notice.
Prime Minister Sarah Wescot Williams thanked all those who have heeded the call to observe the day by as simple an act as flying or displaying the St. Maarten flag. She admitted that the average St. Maarten resident would not have had an answer if asked if June 13th had any special meaning and if told that it is our "flag day", the first question that would come to most people's mind, "Is it a holiday?". The Prime Minister said she does not expect every household and business to be flying the St. Maarten flag on June 13th of next year. However, many years ago that the constitutional process was but a means, a means of nation building and of national development. During those years, nation building was an explicit trajectory of the constitutional process. The nation building process for Sint Maarten is daunting. In its narrowest form, nation building would be forming our nation and rallying around those symbols that binds us as a nation and which would be the basis for a national identity; that what makes us who we are collectively, the social harmony that is vital for continuous economic growth. In building the "State" of Sint Maarten, we look at the institutions that are the bedrock of our hard-fought for new status, our executive, legislative and judicial branches that are independent, yet dependent on each other and necessary for our democracy and State of law.

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