Last Saturday, the public went en masse to the rue General de Gaulle filled with stands for the great return of the sale of traders. The Grande Braderie de Marigot is back and it feels good.
The merchants taking part in the sale are all unanimous: “But what a pleasure to have the sale back. ” confides a jewelry saleswoman to us. “I won't hide from you that we were all very scared this morning when we saw the weather, but you know the determination of Saint-Martin, we believed in it and the population too, look at the world there. ". Indeed, it is not the rain that will have slowed down the troops nor the desire of the public to find the atmosphere specific to the Grande Braderie de Marigot. Open to the public from 9 a.m., the sale was officially inaugurated around 11:30 a.m. at the Centr'Hôtel in the presence, among others, of Yann Lecam, president of Actions Économiques et Citoyennes de Saint Martin (AEC), the association organizing the event which now has about eighty members, Valérie Damaseau, president of the Tourist Office, Angèle Dormoy, president of the CCISM, and Marc-Gérald Menard, Territorial Councilor who represented Louis Mussington, president of the Collectivity, who was not present but that we could see in the rue Général de Gaulle later in the afternoon. During his speech, Yann Lecam expressed himself in these terms: “The association (AEC) will be alongside the Collectivity, the Tourist Office and the CCISM in their efforts to guarantee the revitalization of Marigot. It is in this sense that in the coming months, we wish to become more professional in order to have internal engineering resources so that the financial support assumed by our members and the public authorities can become the sesame of access to more extensive funding. , I am naturally thinking of certain national and European measures. The president of the AEC did not fail to thank the officials for their unfailing support and to congratulate them for the progress of the file of the Marina Royale, considered as the lung of the attractiveness of Marigot and a major tool in the local economy. If the many adversities linked to the post-Irma period and the global health crisis of covid have somewhat undermined the morale of traders and members of the AEC association, they have never lost hope, remaining solid, united and optimistic. . The return of the Grande Braderie is living proof of this. The atmosphere was festive in rue Général de Gaulle, the events had the expected success and all the merchants who had a stand there achieved their best turnover for months. No matter if the sky was gray, the Grande Braderie de Marigot was magnificent. Can not wait for next year. _VX
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