Edgar H. Lynch was born on January 21, 1952, In Aruba. He received his early schooling in St. Martin, and studied teaching at Rotterdam's Municipal Pedagogic Institute in The Netherlands from 1968 to 1974. He returned to St. Martin in 1975, and became head of administration and scholarship at the central government's Department of Education-Windward Islands. Lynch served as the general secretary of Algemene Bond voor Overheidspersoneel (ABVO)-Windward Islands and in 1979 and was elected the first president of the Windward Islands Civil Servants Union (WICSU). In the 1970s and 1980s, he freelanced for the New Age newspaper and wrote for Sinew Sports and its television program. He has been a long-time president of the Boxing Association and the Windward Islands Baseball Association. Since 1991, Lynch has served two four-year terms in the Island Council, the legislative branch of the government of the Southern part of St. Martin. In 1995, the Island Council appointed Lynch, a member of the St. Maarten Patriotic Alliance (SPA) faction, to the Executive Council as commissioner of education, health, social and women affairs. In 1999, he was re-elected to the Island Council.

Julian C. Lynch was born on May 9, 1940, in St. Martin He left St. Martin for the Netherlands in 1974 and obtained his SPD, and accounting degree. Lynch returned home in 1989 and opened Lynch Administration Services. He is the vice president of the Windward Islands Teachers Union and a member of the St. Maarten Social Economic Council.