I opened up the morning paper,
and there he was...
grinning like a greased up, tropical Chucky doll.
I thought he was gone!
But there he was,
thumb in the air,
an almost maniacal look in his eyes.
I had to laugh a little,
in fact I'm still laughing
William Brooks was back!
So this verified one source,
but discredited another.
I'm laughing, because I know the latter
must be holding back tears.
There is a lot of debate,
about what it would take
to get rid of Brooks,
and every GEBE authority
it appears, has a different opinion.
I'm very upset, that I will have to look forward to
almost daily outages, but it's almost worth it,
knowing that certain "brains" at GEBE will now
have to be working overtime-or really staying below
the radar, less Mr. Brooks figures out
who the true culprits of his "Coupe de Etat".
Hope that I spelled that correctly,
as it appears that St Maarteners are being
held hostage by a pseudo, mini, otherworldly 
Ton Ton Makoute(sp?).
One "expert" source said that the Supervisory Board
couldn't get rid of him...
Another said it was Saba and Statia keeping him afloat.
One said it was political influence,
but the majority seemed to believe,
that it could only be Obeah.
In St Maarten, intelligence and education,
does not mean that you lose your traditional beliefs.
I realized that, while talking to very erudite, informed and
intellectual sources, whose only conclusion, it seems....
is that somebody has been chopping off chicken heads,
somewhere in St Maarten-or Haiti, for Mr Brooks.
I couldn't stop laughing, when I heard that....
that is......until I opened up that daily newspaper,
and saw those eyes...
that grin...
the thumbs up....
defiantly behind the desk....
And I had to  wonder..............................


COCKADOODLE...........CHOP!
happy holidays,

and I wish you nothing but uninterrupted
electricity and water.