JG - Jamaicans causing havoc in Saint Maarten

Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaicans causing havoc in Saint Maarten

Published: Sunday February 1, 2009

Leighton Levy, Gleaner Writer


Keswick Daley being taken into custody by police in Saint Maarten recently. He was on the run for almost a month following his escape from police custody on December 24 last year. He had been wanted in connection with a series of armed robberies on the island. - File

WITH THEIR nationality being tarnished by a violent few in recent times, law-abiding, hard-working Jamaicans on the island of Saint Maarten are finding it harder to get some jobs on that island. Others fear they are being unfairly targeted by police brought in to help curb the island's growing crime problem, The Sunday Gleaner has been told, despite comments to the contrary from minister of justice for the Netherlands Antilles, David Dick.

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"Since last year, the tiny Dutch colony, with a population of about 60,000, has been hit by a series of armed robberies. Many of these are believed to have been committed by illegal immigrants living on the island, many of them Jamaican."