Community - President Gibbs takes stock of the various projects underway

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The Collectivity of Saint-Martin has just published its e-newsletter, a letter in which President Daniel Gibbs takes stock of the various projects carried out by the Collectivity. Road works and in schools, burying and rehabilitation of electrical and wet networks, optical fiber, so many works carried out so that Saint-Martin becomes an innovative region and a modern and welcoming tourist destination ...

The majority of the various renovation projects underway in schools will be finalized for the start of the new school year in September, assures President Gibbs, while part of the projects will continue until the end of 2019. Currently, eleven projects are underway in schools for an allocated amount of 14 million euros. The reconstruction of Saint-Martin is progressing at a pace that “we all want faster. This rhythm is conditioned by the financial means which are at our disposal and by the common law devices to which we have access ”, specifies Daniel Gibbs. The European Union Solidarity Fund (FSUE) made it possible to finance the reconstruction of schools and "it will have taken two full years to complete this immense renovation project: eighteen schools and all of the platforms sportsmen ”. For President Gibbs there is still a few months of effort to do "and this work will be behind us". According to the latter, the Collectivity and its partner, National Education, have made every effort to ensure that the return to school in September 2019 "is going on under the best auspices".

  A long process of reconstruction

The Collectivity, the EDF and the Water and Sanitation Establishment of Saint-Martin (EEASM) are continuing the vast work of landfilling and rehabilitating electrical and wet networks, without forgetting the burial of optical fiber. "This is a major project that will take place over two years, as the work to be carried out on the whole territory is substantial", specifies Daniel Gibbs, who assures that "we decided to take up this challenge so that Saint -Martin can finally rely on state-of-the-art and resilient public infrastructure in the event of a major cyclonic phenomenon ”.

Strongly affected by cyclone Irma, the village of Grand-Case is a priority and will be the subject, between August and October, of major landfill work on Boulevard Bertin Maurice. Sanitation works which must imperatively be carried out “for the well-being of the inhabitants and respect for the environment”.

"The island will be under construction for several more months, and I know that each of you has now integrated the notion of inevitable time into this long process of reconstruction," considers President Gibbs. And "the day will come when Saint-Martin will have completed its reconstruction phase", allowing the island to position itself as an innovative territory and ready to go further in its development, "a modern and welcoming tourist destination, exclusively toured to the future ".

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