Dear Editor,
I can remember years ago at the beginning of the talk show era some of the people would call in and use unacceptable language. This brought about that, I believe it was seven seconds delay. This enabled the moderator to delete what was considered unacceptable language.
We have come a long way since then. So I was flabbergasted when I heard that female person who claimed to be calling from Trinidad, publicly being given audience to be able to make demands on the government of St. Maarten to make sure that her wounded son gets back to Trinidad alive. Does not anyone know of the word protocol? Where does the buck stop and with whom? When are we going to become professional in what we do?
I have written it several times. As long as we do not give our children solid ground to stand on we will continue to sink. The word is CIVICS, The constitution and literature on how the country is governed. I feel belittled to hear a non-St. Maartener calling from abroad via one of my radio stations to ridicule my government. Is St. Maarten really anybody’s child? I hope I got this all wrong.
Russell A. Simmons
