S TATIA N EWS
V OLUME 2 ISSUE 7 J ANUARY 24, 2011
I wrote all of that to write this, before choosing a person to
vote for this coming election, look at their whole body of work
from the past. If you like what you see then don’t let anyone
convince you otherwise. However, if you don’t like what you
see chances are history will repeat itself, and that politician will
repeat old patterns, so move on.
Everybody needs to vote. Your vote is your voice and the only
person who can silence your voice is you. Picking a party be‐
cause you had a lemonade with them is not going to help you,
your kids and neither your grand kids.
Edsel Schmidt went to school in Curacao and Holland and came
You are electing someone to represent you and standup for back to Statia about two years ago. He has a St. Eustatius website
the things you believe in, your Norms and Values. If a person is www.euxonline.com (see link above) and is setting up stream local
more inline with your way of thinking, and they are number 12 radio on the internet.
on the list, vote for number 12 and not number 1 because they
Statia becomes pretty crowded already, Joshua asked sensus: 3679 people at the moment. (A.) (picture by Natasja Vuik)
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Lower Town: Sunset at Eastern 2010 Eastern is one of the biggest local celebrations on Statia (picture Natasja Vuik)
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Glenn Schmidt, #2 STEP is entepeneur, co‐host of Youtalk Franklin Brown, #1 STEP. He is entrepeneur and has a talk‐
every Tuesday night on CTC tv. show “Youtalk” every Tuesday, enlightening and informing
the people.
Volunteer math teacher at the after school program (picture
by Mega D),
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Jackie Berkel and Jessica Berkel giving an art class. Children working hard.
Get caught reading project with the St. Eustatius Pu‐ Uno: nice game
blic library (picture by Hannah Madden)
Colored stones to decorate the garden Outdoor class
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Cherida Creebsburg teaching children how to cook With a cap on for hygiene!
Sally shows how you can fish Mega D takes the children to hike on the Quill
Visit to the auxilary home Wilma van Zoest teaching children to speak Dutch
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A Smartboard: great tool for teachers (picture not made on
Statia)
Here in The Netherlands we have the privilege of having
a smart board in the class rooms. These are special elec‐
tronic boards that one can connect their laptops to and
pull up a PowerPoint and give your lessons. Within these
PowerPoint’s you can also insert links that take you right
to the internet and provides better visual support to the
students. This makes teaching so much easier and learn‐
ing so much fun. Where I did my Internship at the Gwen‐
dolyn van Putten school they still make use of black It all depends on the teacher…. (this is Mr. Dennis Sprott at
the Gov. De Graaffschool)
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Koos Sneek (#2 DP), entrepeneur, newcomer in the DP, for‐ Joshua Spanner, official name Wilhelm Spanner, entrepre‐
mer advisor to Mr. Woodley. Head of Steba, Statia’s bussiness neur, is running independent in this election.
association, recently elected head of the board of the Health He grew up on Statia, went off island to Aruba and St.
Care Foundation, active in the Lions’ Club, commentator in Maarten at one point and came back in 1984 when he
the Daily Herald, on tv, radio, spokesman for business com‐ joined the DP. Over the past years he has been one of the
munity, public criticaster on the taxlaws, in the board of the biggest critics of that party. He has been a member of the
Tourist office, etc. etc. (too much to mention) Mr. Sneek used DP until this year. He is hosting a tv show since CTC came on
to work for the Royal Dutch navy in Holland, on Curacao and air more than two years ago was on the radio for a long
on Aruba where he met his wife Nora. time, “talking blues”. He goes to the schools every year to
Together they live on Statia for more than 25 years. He has teach the children about black history. Joshua has 3 chil‐
two grown up children from his first marriage in Holland and dren, one living in the US, one in Holland and Zambia, who
2 grandchildren. is 7, on Statia.
Millicent Lijfrock‐Marsden (#2 PLP) and Julian Woodley (#5 Reginald Zaandam, (#1 UPC) former DP senator and council‐
DP), former leader of the DP. The rest of the DP is: Rueben member, formed a new party, together with
Merkman, Koos Sneek, Adelka Spanner (now island council Elvin Henriques, Wilma van Zoest, Bernadine Schmidt, Der‐
member), Marietza Patrick, Julian Woodley (now commissio‐ reck Simmons jr.,
ner), Maya Leon‐Pandt, Donald Zimmerman, Jeremias Obispa,
Roy Hooker (now commissioner). Newcomers Rueben Merk‐
man and Donald Zimmerman work at the Gwendoline van
Puttenschool and Maya Leon Pandt at the Tourist Office.
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M ORE P OLITICIANS
In the middle: Roy Hooker (#9 DP) (picture by Renee Rood‐ Clyde van Putten (#1 PLP) with his daughter. Clyde has been
heuvel RNW) in politics for a long time as leader of the PLP. He was in the
Roy Hooker has been in part of the executive council for the first opposition movement. He has been island council
last two terms as commissioner of amongst others education member for more than 25 years, and when he was senator,
and culture, first he also had the port folio Constitutional two terms ago, he was succesfull. On the PLP list: Clyde van
Change, he traded that port folio with Mr. Woodley for the Putten, Millicent Lijfrock‐Marsden, Laurens Duiveman, Ri‐
port folio Finance. chelline Leerdam, Arlene Spanner‐Schmidt, Brenda van Put‐
ten, Edmond Roosberg, Sonaida Smithen‐Windefelde, Or‐
lando Sanchez Rivera, Renaldo Redan.
Youngest politician Richelline Leerdam (#4 PLP) talking to the These are the second local elections for Laurens Duiveman
old nestor Joshua. Richelline is working as a chemical engi‐ with the PLP (#3). Laurens Duiveman lives on Statia for a
neer on Statia. number of years, he and his wife Lois both teach at the
Gwendoline van Puttenschool and have a son Jason. He was
the head of Stenapa before. Besides teaching Laurens also
farms.
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J OKES
DriePoezen. Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane and Daddy
Drie werkloze poezen staan te kletsen : started doing the same thing that Mummy and Uncle Bill
used to do when Daddy was away on the oil rigs...
1-ste poes :
"Ik zou graag bij Friesche Vlag werken: 's morgens melk, Mummy fainted!
's middags melk, 's avonds melk.
Moral:
2-de poes :
Sometimes you need to just shut the f##k up and listen to
"Ik zou liever bij Whiskas werken : 's morgens Whiskas,
the whole story
's middags Whiskas en 's avonds Whiskas.
before you interrupt!
3-de poes :
"Ik wil graag bij Heineken werken ...."
"Wel, 's morgens een kater, 's middags een kater en 's
avonds een kater... "