St. Maarten Lions Club President A. Busby and members Gumbs, Boirard and Johnson recently held discussions with Parliament Chairwoman Sarah Wescot-Williams about the Club’s focus on the youth for this “lionistic” year. Central to this theme are the topics of drug and alcohol use and abuse, and cyber bullying. Bringing the permit ordinance that regards the sale of alcohol to minors in synch with the legal drinking age of 18 was again a topic of discussion, as was the need for a broad discussion on (cyber) bullying. DP-leader Wescot-Williams told the Lions that tabling an initiative law to amend the permit ordinance as presented by Education Minister Silveria Jacobs in her former capacity of a Member of Parliament was still possible, but needs to be done by MPs of her party – the National Alliance.
