PHILIPSBURG:— With the re-opening of schools this year, the people of St. Martin are living the consequences of matters that have been ignored, not dealt with, or overlooked for the past decades.
Education being compulsory on both sides of our island, it is heart-breaking to see what our youngsters are being put through and the way they are being dealt with at the Belle Vue checkpoint while trying to get to their various schools on the French side of our island. They are being deprived of an education when they are not allowed to attend school.
The fact
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