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In a devastating acknowledgment of internal corruption, Prison Director Rohan (himself the subject of a criminal investigation), accused the guards at Point Blanche prison of corruption. Something that I have indicated ad Infinium in numerous post’s on this Blog. Last week police found a firearm, numerous phones and makeshift weapons at the Point Blanche detention center. Rohan claimed that the contraband items were being brought into the facility, by nightshift guards “ against payment ”.  Rohan vehemently refuted statements that contraband was being trafficked by visitors to the facility: “ During the past two years we haven’t caught a single visitor in an attempt to things inside. Visitors do not want to miss the opportunity to see their loved ones. If we catch them for smuggling items they will be immediately and permanently denied access. We are controlling very well”. Natasha Gibbs however shattered the illusion of “ we are controlling very well”, when not more than...

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, ...