We, the residents of Caines Drive, Dutch Quarter, need your urgent attention and help pertaining a problem that has been plaguing for quite some time. It concerns a group of juveniles known in the area as the “Maduro’s children”. These children have been and are causing some serious problems in the neighborhood and are terrorizing the residents in Caines Drive.
Currently they live in an abandoned house that has no running water or electricity, and they are disposing their feces in bags in the yards of the residents in the vicinity. It has even come to a point where people are afraid to walk the road to go to and from work because of these children.
They would beg persons walking by for money and gang up on them and steal their belongings such as their phones, their money or anything they have on them at the time. They are also busy breaking into people’s houses when they are at work. As mentioned before, the “Maduro’s children” are underage, they use drugs and are even having sex for money.
We have lodged so many complaints including calls to the police, and Government concerning the “Maduro’s children”, and all we are hearing is that nothing can be done because these children are under-aged, and that there is nowhere to put them. Because of that, these children are now walking around feeling like they are untouchable and have stated various times that they are not afraid of the police.
We the residents of Caines Drive are fed up and frustrated with what is going on and the fact that nothing can be done with this situation in the neighborhood. We fear that eventually something bad is going to happened and the only one to blame for that would be the Government of St. Maarten because they failed to help to protect these children.
It’s a shame that we are now 11 years since 10-10-10 and the country still doesn’t have the proper facilities in place for these kinds of problems we are facing.
Hoping that the abovementioned situation can be addressed in a timely manner to avoid anyone possibly getting hurt.
Residents of Caines Drive Dutch Quarter
Name withheld at author's request.
