{"id":1024,"date":"2000-05-29T20:31:27","date_gmt":"2000-05-29T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2015-05-12T20:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:31:47","slug":"commissioner-sarah-wescott-williams-introduces-the-republic-of-st-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2000\/05\/29\/commissioner-sarah-wescott-williams-introduces-the-republic-of-st-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Sarah Wescott-Williams introduces The Republic of St. Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREAT BAY (May 29 2000) <\/strong>&#8212; Government leader Sarah Wescott-Williams is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Saturday, June 3 book party for\u00a0<em>The Republic of St. Martin<\/em> by Joseph H. Lake, Jr., 8 PM at the Jubilee Library.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident that Commissioner Wescott-Williams, given her well known dedication to education, will deliver a unique address about this book as an original discussion of ideas about the St. Martin nation, our identity and way of life, and our people&#8217;s working at solutions in St. Martin&#8217;s interest,&#8221; says Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers.<br \/>\nSample also notes that the commissioner&#8217;s dedication includes significant past cooperation, and sometimes-personal attention to House of Nehesi&#8217;s publishing, especially of research-based books. &#8220;This approach made her a natural guest speaker choice for this book party at a time when well-thought out ideas and mature judgment will guide people in making their individual decision about the fast approaching referendum choices on June 23.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Republic of St. Martin<\/em> is already at Van Dorp bookstore, and &#8220;comes without excuses or casting blame, out of St. Martin&#8217;s history and culture,&#8221; says Lake. &#8220;It is a portrait for on-going ideas, plans, preparation, and success in birthing the St. Martin nation.&#8221; Over the last few days, the book began generating exciting discussions on TV and radio talk shows, not only about Lake&#8217;s vision of a St. Martin republic in chapter three but also about his views on the origins of the St. Martin nation and a challenging critique about the island territory in chapters one and two respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The book&#8217;s appendixes include the Dutch government&#8217;s overview about how St. Martin can become independent in a responsible manner. Lake is publisher and political scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BAY (May 29 2000) &#8212; Government leader Sarah Wescott-Williams is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Saturday, June 3 book party for\u00a0The Republic of St. Martin by Joseph H. Lake, Jr., 8 PM at the Jubilee Library. &#8220;We are confident that Commissioner Wescott-Williams, given her well known dedication to education, will deliver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}