Dear Editor,
I write as someone who was (until Hurricane Irma) an owner on the French side and someone who admired many of the things Heyliger did for the Island – in particular the causeway.
Clearly the charges brought against him need to be tested by the country’s justice system.
But, I was astonished to read in a report in your newspaper last week that his medical condition has worsened while he has been detained in St. Maarten because he did not have access to the drugs he required more than once a day.
As I understand your reporting, he is being held in the hospital wing of a prison (in a first-world country) and you report he cannot be given the drugs he needs when he needs them.
That ought to be shocking!
Paul Flaherty
