Flags in St. Maarten, both the Dutch and St. Maarten ones, have been flying at half-mast for more than a week now as a symbol of sympathy and solidarity in the face of the deadly corona virus COVID-19. Not every place is adhering to government’s call to fly flags at half-mast. The flags at the Cole Bay border crossing were still at full-mast, unlike the flags at the Simpson Bay side of the causeway roundabout and at the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard base in Simpson Bay.
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