There is always a significant difference between what you want to do,
what you can do and what you do effectiveley…And politicians to be need to know this:
Before you are elected you know for sure what you want to do
When you are in, you learn what you can and what you cannot
And only when you are ready to leave you know what you did effectively.

In that line of thought it is always good to establish farfetched
objectives while being pragmatic and you’d better be willing to adjust
to changing realities.

That being said, during the last severall months my mind is running
on this ambitious question :
how to interrup the downtrend, if any, of Sin maartiners on Sin maartin :
The demographics (reality),
The political(pre-eminence),
The economical (power)
The social (presence),
The cultural (existence),
My answsers to these questions are based on laws of nature, one of which
is translated in the old saying: birds of a feather flock together.

Based on that I thought of 3 strategies to stop or slow the downtrend that
I mentionned above. (this again, is easier said than done):

1 – Try hard (through lobbying) to have your top birds in effecient positions.
2 – Teach the birds of your feather best practices to gain wealth
3 – Occupy and control space where food is always available.

Point 1 : try hard through lobbying to have your people in efficient
positions.This is done by being informed of opportunities and sharing that knowledge with the birds of your feather.

For instance : there are 5 high schools on the french side.
Each of them employs a management personnel with the title of « Adjoint Gestionnaire ». during the next five years all of the persons holding those positions will leave the island or retire. Any person holding such position benefits of permanent free lodging… The
studies are not easy (masters level) but I know that we have many
students of that potential.

Teaching also has good opportunities. Only a small fraction of the 800 teachers working here, are locals. And we are sure that having more local teachers will help in improving the academic performance of the students. I am ready to give advice on these opportunities. The next advantage is this one. Even In case of exeptionnal conditions, God forbid, they will stay here because they belong here.

The same analysis can be made concerning the Hospital and health sector.

Point 2 : teach your people best practices…is self explanatory.
When you have found opportunities, your people need to be trained adequatly. That again depends on how much and what quality information you can get.

Point 3 : occupy and control the space where food is always available.
This is based on the simple observation that every body need to eat every day. We also know that people are more and more concerned by the quality of what they eat.

It’s better to be depended on for food that to be dependant