And there's the catch - if they are creating a disturbance and interfering with people's peaceful enjoyment of their property, the residents in the area have to take it to a higher authority, assuming there is such on St. Maarten, assuming they can't resolve it with the offender in the first place. It's been done before on both the French and the Dutch sides of the island so people really need to take a stand, assuming it does become a common occurrence.

Knowing how sound travels, and particularly over water, I can't imagine the neighbors on either side being terribly tolerant of something like this as a regular occurrence, but by the same token, a once or twice a year event needs to be tolerated within reason by the neighbors, IMHO, and I think that's what Benni is alluding to. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />