Our floating market - Nos barkunan - onze drijvende markt!

[pegasaya]

Curaçao’s leaders have decided to do something about the harbor pollution and have authorized PDVSA, a Venezuela refinery which leases a plant in Curaçao, to remove and rebuilt our historic and original floating market. Together they committed an atrocity, a barbarian act against our culture and grand theft of our national heritage. Department heads, government officials and some opportunistic political leaders let it happen. The once charming floating market knitted together with fish-line, discarded rope, faded flour bags, old sails and colorful pieces of rags, is no more. Instead PSDVSA built an atrocious aluminum and plastic concoction in its place and draped it with the colors of the Venezuela three-colors.

I have set up a petition drive (in Dutch) on www.remetido.com Please read more about it or add comments on the bottom of this page.

If you are concerned about Willemstad, our World Heritage City, our culture and our national heritage, please visit the site. Go to “Floating Market Petition Drive” and click on “add-comments”. Feel free to add your comments, pro or against our action. We will collect these comments and offer them to our Mayor, our Gezaghebber.
We would like to make our Mayor aware that we, and many world citizens care for our city and that we would like to see the market restored in its original state.
Use your freedom of expression and let us know what YOU think. Thanks.

[Charlton Monsanto]

Yesterday I drove by the new Floating Market and I must admit that I fully agree with the critics of this new feature on our island. It looks new, but it has totally lost (and missed) the old charm that the old boats had. It's a shame....