The answer you gave to the 16 year old girl who asked if she should try the next boy in order to find out if sex was different with different boys, was very useless and not at all helping the girl. Sexual activity is the one and only God given pleasure that  can lead to intimate love and  better understanding between people. Sexual  art  must be learned, just like cooking. With the same ingredients an amateur cook makes a simple primitive plate of food. A chef who has experience makes a wonderful exquisite delicious plate with those same ingredients. He  who has studied the art of cooking knows what I’m about. The same is true with sex. I can feel from your answers where it concerns sex that you have never had the luscious intimate  sexual experience that leads to spiritual enlightenment.  This ancient knowledge is called Tantra and brings the human being through sound sexual practice into a realm of higher consciousness. This in turn brings better behavior, dignity, understanding and health.  Tantra has been practiced for thousands of years in Eastern countries.  The book by Penny Slinger and Nik Douglas, called Sexual Secrets, The Alchemy of Ecstasy, for sale  at Van Dorp or can be ordered there, explains what every young woman and man should know to avoid problems and disappointments, to enjoy their bodies and to give great lovely pleasure to each another. It is time you stop answering young people as if we live in the time of Queen Victoria and as if the ancient rules of the Bible are still useful. Sexual education is extremely poor in western countries, your answers are proof of that,  please do get some real facts and information Queenie, so you can help youngsters instead of trying to have them just say no and letting them experiment in the blind. At the very least you could have advised the girl to do nothing without a good supply of condoms at hand, because your answer will surely not stop her from finding out what you did not. 

Sexpert

Those famous or infamous 500 kilos of drugs. Confiscated before the eights month of the year is out. The criminals that lost them, who worked hard to get them so far, who       maybe planned to lose them, in order to get 5000 kilos through. The money the 500 kilos are worth is enough to pay for the needed police cars, for the much needed alcohol test kits, for the road safety, signs, markings, etc. Legalize it and sell it to those who buy it right flow anyway. 500 kilo stopped, 5,000 through. In order to stop it all it must be legalized. Take it away from the crooks. Take it in the governments distribution system, coffee shops for the ganja, marijuana, cannabis, hashish. Pharmacies for cocaine and heroine and crack. To be sold on doctors prescription only. Set a fair price and be done with it. The foolish behavior of the law at present makes perfectly honest people criminals and makes perfect4bad criminals rich. It drains enormous energy from the police, justice system and prisons, gives a wrong image to the youth and does not prevent the use at all, although the present law was designed to halt drug use. There was a time that alcohol was banned in the USA. Canada’s Seagram made its fortune by shipping alcohol to the US. Bonny and Clyde were the famous criminals that drank whisky in teacups and killed opponents in spectacular shootouts. The alcohol ban had to be reversed and Liquor became government taxed and controlled. Today the same is happening with drugs. Criminals are ripping each other off, even shootings and killings take place right here on our small friendly island. Because drugs are wanted. For various illnesses and conditions that are not described as such. Ask a cannabis user what exactly it does for him. He will hardly be able to tell you. A good feeling is as accurate as he can go. Years of criminalizing it has made part of the populati6n believe that it is bad. Bad for health, brain, society, work and what not. If it was, Europe would not legalize it. Holland would have stopped the use in coffeehouses long ago Lf it was so dangerous. No matter tat all is said against Holland, it has a prosperity second to none, educational Institutes that churn out doctors, economists, chemists and engineers by the scores. It is a small country that with a population of 15 million can compete with countries many times its size. Its drug policy is been followed by Switzer—Land, England, Portugal, Spain and Italy. The two biggest countries, Germany and France take a little longer but cannot continue to fight what others legalize . Canada, like in the time of the alcohol ban, now supplying the US with marijuana, is estimated making 4 billion dollars a year of the illegal  trade (see Time, 20 August 2001) Prime minister Patterson from Jamaica has explained to Washington that his country is now nbr 1 going to legalize ganja, regardless of the USA’s stubborn continuation of the unwinnable war. There is St. Maarten in the picture of international politics on drugs? Why do we not hear a word from our elected politicians on the subject, are they too busy quarreling over the separate status? That way they lose the chance to be the second prime destiny in the Caribbean after Jamaica is going to be lost. Our economy does not seem the priority with the politicians to have the power to condone the use of cannabis as they condoned the selling of sex in brothels.

It is now that I write my book that I realize that the Traffic Department does not give a damn to put white lines on the roads as it can then take less money for its own scams and Holland will anyhow finally pay for the hospital when that institution will be on the verge of collapsing... In my ignorance I didn't know that then.

How much money is saved by not putting white lines on roads? Versus how much money is lost by hospital costs for those who get into accidents because of the missing white lines??? Myself is only one case. My hospital cost was close to twenty thousand dollars. How many white lines can the department of traffic paint for that amount? The cost of being crippled for life can not be expressed in dollars. The punishment for the person who hit me is out of proportion with the pain he caused me, and causes me every day. This letter is a plea for white lines. For all those future potential victims that can be prevented. I pray for white lines on our roads. And I urge all readers to contact our department of traffic, commissioner Ferrier, and ask for white lines on our roads.

Please Mr. Ferrier, can we get white lines now? On the bridge, in front of Royal Palm, on the Oyster Pond road, under the traffic lights at town, there we have them clear and well. And the quality is good. Those lines should be everywhere. The difference with the French side is so clear, that it is no wonder all the tourists go there, when asked, they tell me the driving is safer French side, why risk an accident here where you can't see the roads limits, especially at night. So, please sent your letter, or fax to the government building, traffic department, attention Mr. Ferrier and ask for white lines on our roads. You may add that your road tax is paid and you would like to see the roads safe. Money is spent on signs like the overdone unneeded sign at the Hendriksstraat. That is a right-out laughing matter to tourists. At the corner of Backstreet and Hendrikstraat is a red round shield with a white horizontal bar. Everyone knows what that means. Then is under there a plaque with the text: No Entry, Oncoming Traffic, One Way. That is so overdone, not needed, ridiculous, as the red round sign with white horizontal bar says it all. Why 3 times extra there, but no white lines? And why must men cut grass along the road where the grass does not at all obstruct the view, does not impede the traffic at all? At places where there are no white lines the grass is maybe cut so the victims of the next accident can be put on the side of the road easily. Let your pen express your disgust at the present situation, and ask for it. Make your government work for you. That is what they promised in election time. Now make then hold their word. Towards a better Sint Maarten.

Zionism is or is not racism, casts in India are not sure of what to do about it, and the past behavior of the white countries in the context of slavery. And if apologies are proper, and even financial compensation for past slave trades. Arab countries that provided the slaves to the whites seem to be forgotten. African tribes that warred on each other and sold captured prisoners as slaves to the Arabs are not mentioned. Before that we had Egypt, where thousands of slaves built the pyramids. Today’s economic slavery is not mentioned where low wage people in underdeveloped countries manufacture Nike shoes and Hilfiger clothes. To bicker over the past suffering of individuals a who are long dead and gone I find stupid. To talk about compensating the rape of the countries in Africa would be more useful. Where basic materials are mined in Africa and taken away by the white countries to be used for the making of all kind of things to be sold back to African countries with huge profits. The basic materials are mostly not even paid for realistically, but with guns for tribes to fight each other. Divide and rule. The European way of managing Africa. All kinds of metals are /were mined and taken away, also uranium to fuel nuclear power stations. Gems and gold, agricultural products. Never compensated fairly. That now I finds an issue to address. And ask yourself, if your skin is dark, do you rather be where you are or would you prefer to be there where your forefathers where captured and imprisoned to be sent away to where you are now. Gods ways are mysterious. Make the best of today and don’t look back. Yesterday cannot be undone, not with money, apologies or monuments to those that went before. And if the past was bad, better forget it and make tomorrow a nicer day.

The USA has a list with countries that harbor, help, assist or otherwise are in league with terrorists. These countries are more or less hostile to the USA. The list has 60 names. 60 Countries that do not like US policies, does that not put you to think what is really going on? First: every time in the media, the word "innocents" is used, I would replace it with "ignorants". The US government keeps its citizens ignorant of the rest of the world. The internet opens up the world a little, but sitting in front of  a screen in a comfortable home watching poverty on the other side of the globe does not make One a better person. Or helps that poor sucker in the desert. The word is: SHARING. Only sharing the wealth can alleviate the troubles. The wealth of One is the poverty of Another. It must be understood that the world is a ball of material hurling through apace, with a crust of earth on which human beings are crawling like fleas on the skin of a dog. The big words of "globalization" would make one think that we understand a little better that we are on the globe. On the planet. That we are all together. That we are all humans living on this one planet circling the sun. However, it scares people to change their little surroundings and well-known area for the world in its totality. We have seen scared groups defending national values, waging war at neighbours and different ethnic groups. Nowhere do we see a global understanding of each another. Nowhere do we learn that all human beings are one family. A Negro can mate an oriental, a white can mate a North American Indian, an Indonesian can make a baby with a Russian. We can all intermix and function well. Instead we separate, we claim to be better, we discriminate, we behave like fools in the greater scheme of things. Take a trip in a plane and ascend to 10.000 feet, and you will not believe that the fighting, the hate and the atrocities continue down there on the surface of the earth. You will see the curvature of the planet and understand that it is a ball after all. Why can men not unite, why do leaders keep up the silly primitive destruction, fear, hate and war? How long before hum animals become civilized human beings? Some claim to be Christians and shout revenge, others say

that Muslims are terrorists while Moslem hospitality is second to none. Ignorance over and over again. Blame the governments that do not inform the people of what really goes on. Poverty for some is wealth for others. I am not a communist but I can live with only two pairs of shoes, with only the basics for comfort and carefully not wasting one crumb of bread. I have chosen for modesty after having enjoyed wealth and poverty both in my life. And I  have no enemies. Not one.   Sharing is the key.

The reports I follow on the radio international news touches me most when the survivors suffer the missing-partner -syndrome. They cannot imagine how death works spirituality. That the body is not functioning any more they can grasp, but that the persons light and life are gone, baffles them. The more as nothing about the way how to die has been taught in schools, church, temples etc. My curiosity has lead me to the most satisfying: "Book 0f the Dead", from Tibet. The ancient unperturbed monks in the monasteries high on the slopes of the Himalaya have preserved the teachings of the Enlightened Ones and composed a guide for the spirit of the dying person. The symptoms of the arriving death are well described as in normal cases death takes about the time it takes to use a meal. This manual for the spirit of the dead person is to be read out loud by a friend even as minutes and hours and days go by. Time exists only on our side of the clock, and after 7 weeks it is said that the spirit must have found its way and the guiding prayers cease.

This reading while one is alive, for a dead friend or relative, or for only one self, while living, gives the reader the wisdom to help others that happen to die in the

field of influence of the present. It makes life so much richer, this knowledge of how to die. That, if it comes, at least I have an inkling as to where to steer my spirit, if it is true that it cannot die and live forever. The information, once stored in the brain, after reading a modern translation, will be of use in case an instant death takes place. Life becomes so fearless and easy, bad habits are laid off , morality strengthens, integrity sublime, here follows the name of the book: The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-500223-7.

This version is a bit old-fashioned and I recommend you find a newer edition. I have seen one that explains the message clear and good. Life becomes more marvelous and full when you have understood that you have been here forever and will stay, no matter how many death we pass. We grow towards fulfillment of the Lord and appreciate His mysteries the more we do scientific research to celebrate His ways.

On Tuesday , 28 august 2001 the Daily Herald was the only paper to report on Prime Minister Patterson's visit to Washington. A report of a commission of inquiry in Jamaica has come to the same conclusions as so many  European countries . Ganja, cannabis, marijuana should be legalized. Patterson finds the recommendations of the commission very persuasive and this autumn his government will make changes within the law.

The USA sees decriminalization incompatible with the 1988  U.N. convention on drugs. And is already threatening Jamaica's  status under the certification process. While the USA ignores ballistic treaties, the Kyoto Protocol, and lately the conference on racism, and the International Criminal Court of Justice as well. I wonder how it dares to point the finger to other countries when itself acts without the consent of the rest of the world. Canada from the north is legalizing cannabis, Jamaica from the south. The classical pincher movement is being executed here, with the USA in the middle.

Sint Maarten should take its place between the modern thinking nations. To show that it has an independent meaning and a strength that defies the bully in the north. The economic benefit of legalizing cannabis, as long as the USA does not, will be enormous. That is why Patterson is not intimidated  by the threat of the USA. He dares to stand up for his views.

Anybody in St. Maarten has the guts? Or are our leaders only followers of the USA ? To keep the drug trade in the hands of the criminal organizations it has to stay illegal. The USA is right now part of the criminals that make millions of dollars that stay out of the tax collectors plans.

Does St. Maarten depend on U.S. financial aid? If not, there is nothing to fear from legalizing pot right here. And I also dare to say that I am against USA military bases on Curacao, that will draw the Netherlands Antilles in the lost war against small farmers that supply the basic materials for the cocaine that the American population is eager to receive. If the USA cannot stem the demand, it should not abuse small countries like Curacao to continue its outdated military approach. The great Kemel Ataturk said many years ago: "Order at home, order in the country, order in the world", in that order.

That Curacao can lend itself to be part of the war that looks much like the lost Vietnam war is unacceptable. Status Aparte, lets quickly disassociate ourselves from such troublesome policies.

It is a known fact that white people in the US use 9 times more cocaine then black people. Still blacks are imprisoned 13 times more then whites for the same offense. Racism is a terrible truth in the USA. Should we not disassociate ourselves from such a blatant abuse of human right and dignity?

Legalize, control, educate, instead of prosecute, lock up and punish. Drugs do not go away, They are here to stay. As peoples prosperity grows, they feel entitled to also enjoy good feelings. Money and a big car do not give satisfaction in the long run. They are part of the material world. Drugs give the inner experience, is what men are looking for. No religion, no laws or police , nothing can stop men from trying drugs that gods plants provide. War is stupid. Violence is lack of intelligence, education is the key to understanding and eventually growing over and above the danger of drugs.

Magazine Time, August 20. An article in it explains how much of the continent has decriminalized cannabis. How much time the police can now spend on serious crime. How the drug use in general has dropped over the last decade. How in the UK plans are in the make to sell cannabis in licensed shops for off-premise use, just like liquor, health warnings and all. It will be procured from licensed growers. It will hurt drug syndicates and help make dope simply boring. The same reasons the Swiss gave for a new law that permits the legal production of marijuana for residents use. The United States policy is not likely to change soon, as it is anchored in legal battles, privatized prison industry, a surplus of lawyers and a justice system that needs as many clients and victims as possible. Canada, though, has a more open vision and there the cannabis is soon to be decriminalized. Former Prime Minister Joe Clark, now leader of the opposition conservatives, is all for it, just like the Canadian Bar Association, The Royal Mounted Police and more. It is estimated that 150.000 people harvest 4 billion dollars a year from the marijuana trade from Canada to strict anti-dope USA. Plans are drawn up to open coffee shops, Holland style, along the border, proffering high-quality weed to go in vacuum sealed bags.

Jamaica has been told by a spokesperson from the American embassy that the USA is not happy with the local ideas to legalize pot. The European reality is likely to have more influence on Jamaica then the United States prison policy- Respect for personal freedom seems to be non existent in the USA. As the drug trade is now in the hands of criminal drug syndicates and the legalizing will take it away from them, it is the criminals that scream foul. They will see their livelihood go in no time when the governments take over supplying citizens legally priced quality weed. One wonders why the USA holds on the invincible struggle, refusing its people the substance that they ask for. As the demand for drugs is there, nothing will stop it from coming.

Smart governments take the drug trade in their own hands, warnings, taxes, controls and all. When will the Executive Council condone the use of cannabis officially on St. Maarten, as it has done with prostitution, so that locals and visitors can smoke their spliff in the knowledge that they are no part of the crime, American style here on Holiday Island?

Friendly Island, friendly people, friendly laws. Isn't that what the tourists come for?

The USA in recession, the Euro is gaining power; European politics are showing the world that Holland’s example of 25 years of tolerance was the right way to go. Now we wait to see when our politicians admit that they are informed and act in harmony with modern times.