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This is an update on the torture video post from yesterday. Acting Police Commissioner, Milton Desir, has promised to issue a statement Monday on a ‘torture’ video that has gone viral on social media. Milton Desir. Desir is just back after accompanying National Security Minister, Hermangild Francis to a two-day  Franco-Saint Lucian Security meeting in Martinique. The Acting Police Commissioner told the Times that he was aware of the video. News reports have identified the victim in the video as 18-year-old Scott Atkins, originally from Desruisseaux. In the video, the handcuffed youth is wearing what appears to be a blood-stained shirt and is pleading for his life. “Mommy, tell Shawn pay the people for me – mommy, mommy, the people go kill me! The people go cut my head!” The victim says as automatic weapons are pointed at his head. In another video the victim is seen lying on the ground while two men, one with an automatic weapon and another...

The Pointe Blanche prison on Sint Maarten is a salient potent example of, the endemic corruption and inability, of the present neo-colonial system of governance on Sint Maarten and the former Netherlands Antilles, being unable to govern the inmates at the prison while protecting prisoners and staff alike. John van Den Heuvel in his book Sneeuw Over Curacao aka Snow over Curacao, pointed out that guns in prison on Curacao, are a common occurrence and result in multiple death’s, during in-prison liquidations. When Urvin “ Nuto” Wawoe, was housed in the Point Blanche prison in 2014, for the first time in St Maarten’s history guns appeared in prison, here on Sint Maarten. The incidence of gun’s in prison on Curacao, are a known well documented reality, gun’s in prison on Sint Maarten were unknown and only manifested as per the corporate media in: “ In September 2014, two guns were found in the prison. One man Carlos Richardson was arrested for attempted murder”. The individual, ...