Dear Editor,
We continually hear that the irresponsible parents are the fault of the behavior of delinquent children. It is also written in Proverbs 13:24 that discipline is necesarry for good upbringing (if the parents spare the rod that would spoil the child). In our penal regulation it is also stated that the public prosecutor is in charge of the vigiliance of the adhering to the maintaining of the public order.
One might think what is Russell getting at this time? In keeping with what part of what the crux of my upbringing was, if I see something is not correct and I don't do anything about it, I too am contributing to that wrong. Therefore I am challenging every single person who is involved with public law enforcement and also the vehicle inspection office to explain what is the reason that so many motor vehicles are being driven over the roads of St. Martin (Dutch/French) with illegal lighting and no one is doing anything about it?
I cannot lie to returning visitors who have known me for years when they question me about this. I am going to repeat myself. Irresponsible drivers only adhere when they feel it in their pockets. Along with that the police officers will be contributing to the justice coffers, which if I am correct in extension will be contributing to their own salary.
Now this. Equally as the heavy equipement (dumptrucks, cement trucks) are too big for those small roads on St. Maarten, so are the tour-buses. Along with that if we down-size on the tour-buses, then we would be able to give more people work and smaller buses would have access to more sites. All crave all lost is not an exaggeration.
By the way, would traffic lights by the intersection Sucker Garden Road/Arch Road help to regulate and alleviate traffic leaving Philipsburg?
Russell A. Simmons
