Dear Editor,
Every day you tune in to the radio it’s nonstop press briefings 20 times a day just like a soap opera nonstop they talk. They are traveling the world to talk at the UN in New York to the shores of South America they talk and attend useless seminars, cut ribbons, hand out flowers and spending our taxpayers money to stay in luxury hotels while our island burns. Nobody whatsoever is talking about a dump that’s poisoning the population daily.
Tourist minister stated he was staying home to solve the many issues plaguing St. Maarten but every time you open the newspaper he’s in a different country enjoying the opportunity as a tourist minister.
Listening to a minister answer 100 questions asked by a sleepy speaking journalist is such a joke. Our island is dirty, run down, over-populated, over-polluted, there’s garbage everywhere, our beaches are full of dog droppings, restaurants on Kim Sha beach throwing their dirty kitchen waste water and oil into the ocean early morning, and the list goes on and on.
I ask myself why do tourists come here? I’m sure after their first visit they won’t be coming back, yet they continue to talk and talk and most of them can’t speak proper English. It’s sickening to hear them speak with sentences with “mmm you know mmm and you know and you know mmmm.” I’ve counted one of them saying these words over 100 times and he used to be a school teacher! Get real! But most of them don’t speak at all!
They seem to be non-existent, only sitting there to collect a huge salary, that’s all they are for – listening to the tourist minister talk about tourist product, what is that? Tourist product!
The hundreds of car wrecks and the boat wrecks littering Airport Boulevard are the first thing visitors see. Get real, tourist minister, stay home and fix the issues we have here, and this is just a perfect example and there are many more hidden away from the public eye.
From the Simpson Bay bridge towards Cole Bay a local restaurant on the roadside serving food and drink and right next to the building running dirty water, barbecue droppings, discarded chicken leg bones, ribs, etc. lie next to the reeking garbage bin swamped by flies and you ask yourself, “is this what tourists come here to see?”
I live here, I will never eat there and many more that are squeezed into the parking lot on Kim Sha beach where sewage runs from a nearby hotel right under your feet and into the sea which is going on for years now.
So, Mr. tourist minister, stay home and fix issues here first before focusing on a gaming board and countless useless issues that we don’t care to know about.
As for the rest of them, stop the talk and start doing the walk. The dump issue has to be dealt with now, so stop talking about useless topics nobody cares to know about. And asking 100 questions to someone who hasn’t a clue of what he’s doing isn’t helping either.
We are smelling the poison all the way by La Samanna hotel it’s a disgrace to all of you in charge. Tourist product? Really!
Name withheld at author’s request.
