The Headlines in St Maarten this week: a recap of this weeks news in SXM

It started this week with that boat carrying illegal immigrants between St Maarten and Anguilla, on its way to Puerto Rico capsizing killing three, nine injured, three missing. They are now in the custody of the French St Martin judicial system, and the authoritities continue to comb the waters along the Anguilla channel, trying to find the missing bodies. The Guy, Mr David Le Blanc from Dominica, who walked into Mark Reid's house and killed his baby Mark Reid Jr, will not see his day in court until September. They are waiting for the forensic results to come back from the Netherlands, and he still has to undergo some type of Psychiatric evaluation. Mr Pompei of Italy, was busted with fake credit cards. He was using the credit cards to scam various hotels and stores on the island to the tune of over 100.000 dollars, he will be seeing twenty months in prison. The escaped convicts have not yet been caught, and two of them will be tried in absentia. According to attorney Geert Hatzmann, he has not seen his client since the escape. That's St Maarten in a nutshel this week. The Dutch appear to be saying 'no' to the hundred million justice park. And the staff of the new Minister Maurice Lake/Theo Heyliger has been appointed. Until next week.