Dear Editor,
I invite you to have a look at the anchorages in Simpson Bay and Great Bay and then have a look at the anchorages in Marigot and Grand Case. With any reasonable level of eyesight you will see that there are minimal boats on the Dutch side and a huge amount on the French side.
If the arrivals at Princess Juliana change hugely that is news is it not ?
Why should the major change in yacht arrivals not also be news ?
The fact that these statistics are controlled by an NV on the Dutch side should surely not detract from these obvious facts. You may not want to consider yourselves “investigative journalists” but the reasons for this major shift do not require much “investigation”.
Robbie Ferron
