Dear Editor,
Soon or later in the near future, Curaçao, Aruba and St. Maarten (CAS islands) will be independent some day. The UN (United Nations) did expect many nations to go independent by the year 2000.
So, if the Dutch are calling on the CAS islands to go independent and the Dutch appoint me for two to three months as the state secretary for the Dutch Caribbean, l will see to it that there will be no referendum or no two thirds of any of the three islands’ parliamentarians’ vote needed to get their independence.
I would rather give the three islands a mandate to declare their independence by 2029; and one of St. Maarteners’ priorities is to have their own central bank and to uplift their justice system here in St. Maarten.
Cuthbert Bannis
