President Daniel Gibbs welcomed students from Saint-Martin from Montreal, Canada, to the Espérance de Grand-Case airport yesterday morning. The president was accompanied by VP Annick Pétrus, vice-president in charge of School Affairs and by the member for Saint-Martin / St Barth Claire Javois Guion-Firmin.
The students were taken to Guadeloupe on Saturday June 6, on an Air Caraïbes Montreal Pointe-à-Pitre flight, chartered by the Guadeloupe Region in partnership with the communities of Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy.
Nearly 250 students were able to benefit from this repatriation paid for by the communities. The Collectivity of Saint-Martin housed its students at the hotel in Guadeloupe, this weekend, due to a lack of flights on Sundays.
The president of Saint-Martin was able to welcome them, this Monday in Grand-Case, wishing them "a good return home".
The past few months in Montreal have been trying because of the confinement and the impossibility of finding a return flight when the university year was over.
“It was urgent to find a solution to allow them to return to Saint-Martin, it is done today, I am happy and I thank the Guadeloupe Region for this regional partnership at the service of our students and for the "logistical welcome that was reserved for them upon their arrival in Guadeloupe, Saturday," said President Daniel Gibbs.
As a reminder, the Collectivity of Saint-Martin has set up, under the Covid19 Solidarity Pact, the Friendly Students device during confinement, with the aim of identifying students in difficulty and providing them with exceptional assistance of € 500 for get through this crisis.
Thanks to this system, the Collectivity was able to identify and contact 25 students living in Canada to offer them this repatriation, which is paid for jointly with the neighboring islands. About fifteen students from Saint-Martin responded favorably and were thus able to benefit from this collective repatriation.
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