St. Maarten News: Interim Justice Minister Richard Gibson will ask for a formal meeting with Chief Prosecutor Ton Maan to discuss in detail the statements prosecutor Maarten Noordzij made during a presentation at the Inter-Parliamentary Kingdom Consultation (Ipko) last week.
The prosecutor revealed data about prostitution in St. Maarten in the context of a presentation about human trafficking and compared them to those of Amsterdam, saying that based on the population numbers, prostitute-density in St. Maarten is more than six times higher than it is in Amsterdam.
The prosecutor also made a remark about the number of illegals in St. Maarten. He cited from the American TiP-report that sticks to a number of 15,000 and said that he heard in St. Maarten remarks that the ratio legals-illegals on the island could be 50-50. Noordzij added however that it is difficult to verify these numbers.
The data from the presentation have been taken completely out of context in Dutch media.
Minister and chief prosecutor revisit remarks made at Ipko
