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July 17, 2014 10:24 AM
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten - The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labor wants to implement new policy rules for work permits for prostitutes and exotic dancers immediately.
 
This appears from a memorandum about "commercial sex workers" that appeared on Friday in the National Gazette.
 
Under the new policy, brothels and strip clubs must have a business license from the Ministry of Justice but they must also meet the requirements the Ministry of Public Health demands for obtaining a work permit for "the commercial sex worker."
 
The memorandum notes that the current policy that condones prostitution only requires "limited conditions" for obtaining a work permit.
 
They refer only to the costs to process the work permit and a statement about the health of the applicant. "For the rest there are hardly any obligations for club-owners," the memorandum states.
 
Lawyer and former minister of justice Roland Duncan does not agree with the change of policy because he believes that St. Maarten would be breaking human trafficking treaties signed by the island in the past.
 
(Sint Maarten Island Times)
 

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