Terry Peterson newest
addition to NA slate
PHILIPSBURG--Terry Peterson was introduced on Sunday as the third new National Alliance (NA) candidate who will be contending for public office during the April 20 Island Council elections.
Peterson presented himself yesterday using the slogan “Together we can, we must and we will; we’re going to prove them wrong.” At the end of his introduction speech Peterson used the same format as the “I have dream” speech of late Dr. Martin Luther King.
Peterson: “I have been to the mountain top and have seen the Promised Land. The view of Promised Land St. Maarten under the leadership of the NA is extremely marvellous, a country where nepotism and poverty are no more, where cultural values such as love, respect and compassion are restored and where everyone comes together in peace unity and brotherhood.
“I see a day where hunger and homelessness will be no more, when children will no longer share prison cells with hardened criminals, when our people will not eat from the garbage dump or sleep in graveyard cemeteries, when our homes and streets will be secured from robberies and muggings, when we no longer will walk in sewage water and when children will have free health care, free education and free school meals.
“In the new country St. Maarten under the NA teachers will be respected and salaries increased, and women and senior citizens will be protected and valued.
“There is work to be done, because there are people who need a helping hand, teachers who are struggling, young people who are dying, mothers who can’t feed their children, families who can’t pay their rent and mouths that go hungry.”
Peterson was born in St. Lucia. He has strong historical roots in Aruba and has made St. Maarten his home since the early 1990s. He has worked as an educator and social worker at Sundial School, Milton Peters College and St. Maarten Academy. He studied law at Coventry University in England and holds a postgraduate certificate in supranational criminal law from the university in Leiden, the Netherlands.
NA leader William Marlin said Peterson believed he could make a positive contribution to human rights in St. Maarten and would be a candidate in the upcoming elections for Island Council of St. Maarten.
“He says when St. Maarten becomes a country he will be more than happy to use his experience and knowledge to serve the people in the St. Maarten Ombudsman office, in the bureau of foreign relations or even as a St. Maarten diplomat or ambassador to Caricom,” Marlin said.
NA said it would continue announcing more of its new candidates in the upcoming days and weeks. Invitations have already gone out for the Dutch Quarter Community Centre on Thursday, February 15, at 7:00pm when Patrick Illidge will be introduced.
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