Dear Editor,
I believe that lack of transparency could be among others the cause for assumption and speculation. It is a while now that we have not heard much about the kingdom relations between St. Maarten and Holland and about the financial regulations. The term is “when you put two and two together” so because I, as a citizen of the Dutch kingdom, am curious to know why the silence? I did not write “hush hush”. I wrote “silence”. So yes, why the silence?
I put two and two together and then I did like we all do, I asked questions and one person suggested that it could be possible because they closed down the phone in each other’s ear. That was news to me, but it made sense even though it is petty and childish, if that is so.
I am writing this because I am inclined to believe that it is something personal. Why would Curaçao get all that and more to come, whereas the rest of the equal partners are not talking about each other? Could this be a way of paying back and showing each other who is who because of that phone-in-ear-closing, while making use of the CFT?
Again I’m thinking is this really that deep? Was the urgency to “get back at you” so strong? There is no way anyone could convince me that all of this was not already prepared, and that hardball was not played? Even though I know that such an act is clearly the lack of professionalism, I believe that that phone-in-ear-closing unleashed the tiger and the urgency to pay back was too strong.
At least now we have an idea of what we can get. But I would be cautious, because there are many roads which lead to Rome. Good boxers do not close the phone in each other’s ear, they continue fighting while keeping their guards up.
By the way I read something about A.O.W. [old age pension – Ed.] and one of the reactions in the social media was that the Dutch are going to stall its execution until all eligible pensioners are dead and then they will not have to pay anyone, anymore.
Russell A. Simmons
