very good news....beats riding the hound....hope they can take cargo also

More inter-city train lines should be built. That is positive also for rural areas as they will be better connected with the cities and their inhabitants could study and work in the cities, while continue to live in their rural hometowns. Around the train stations lots of commerce, malls, taxi stops etc could boom development and employment in all the cities/villages where the trains will pass by.

buenoha;

I think you will find that the "HVT" envisioned by Leonel will be one of a "non-stop" variety which will serve the two cities with passengers ONLY.
The other part of the "dream" will be years in the making and well beyond our tenure on this planet.

TB

Lets finish the projects already started and moving at a snails pace such as roads...oh yeah....soon nobody will be able to afford to drive....I now see the logic in the slow road development.

A group of business persons wants to invest 3,750 million euros, in returned for what. This is a very large sums of money to be investedin tourism and I'm sure is not for free. The realities will remain the same for the greater majority cause this is not about raising the minimum wage for the dominicans workers. This is about a business venture that will be of profit to a selectived group while the majority will be onlookers.

The important thing here is that many countries are seeking alternatives to oil consumption and having metros in place will reduce gasoline dependency.

To Hector Vargas: this is called foreign direct investment.

Look it up on wikipedia!

For the lazy ones: international capital flows are always looking for interesting business investment opportunities that provide high yield. In emerging economies there is often a higher return on investment accross some sectors than in some developed countries, where due to capital/business crowding less opportunities remain open.

Is the Metro running yet????

buenoha, your response does not address the concerns of hectorvargas, who asks what is in it for dominicans. here is the reality of what is going on. the available biosphere in developed countries such as the usa and europe just cannot sustain the population pressures and the way of life into the future. so europeans are staking out their share of the rest of the habitable world, ¨investing ¨sums of money to set themselves up in the future. it is like some kind of postmodern, genteel colonialism. as far back as the 1930s, Adolf Hitler adumbrated a policy call lebensraum, which, if my german is not too wanting, translates into ¨living room¨. he realised that germans needed more landspace as far back as then, when the living conditions were not that dire. today, countries such as the Dr and other tropical zones, with benevolent climates, available lands, and, better yet, hordes of poor, unemployed people, have become the mecca for ¨investors¨from usa and europe. this migration is not

the equivalent of people moving from underdeveloped countries to seek a better life in a developed one. these are people who are arriving with large wads of cash, and who, by virtue of the strength of wealth, can change the social, political and cultural landscape, in their favor. they can buy ordinances to restrict entry of locals into their ¨gated communities..they can restrict locals from access to beaches. they can monopolise certain employment opportunities, restricting them to their friends and compatriots. these are not theoretical insights; these are things i witnessed on a daily basis in the DR. in the main, the only benefits accrue to the newly arrived, while the locals get a few jobs as maids and gardeners. if you do not believe this is so, go to a place such as Cabarete and see who owns all the primo beachfront restaurants and clubs. if you are Dominican, try to get one for yourself, if it becomes available. please post your experience, thank you.

Great news for DR this is a great example of are growth........Thank you Leonel for bringing estability to are country, and for working towards making this type of deals come true.

DOMINICANS, LET PUT NEGATIVITY TO THE SIDE. AND LETS WORK TOGETHER IN THE BENNEFIT OF ARE GREAT NATION.

Lets put negativity aside? Classis after seeing your handle! A true mastercard moment

THE AWNSER IS YES ESCOTT !!!!

I do not see any "MASTERCARD" moment in my statement.......

Go to St Tropez or Marbella and try and get some of that Dread ......again preaching the sermon of politics of racial resentment in a country he is just a visitor in....the locals are not bitter enough for you or envious enough for you or militant enough for you ....You will show them how to circle the wagons ......come closer the politics of racial resentment calls out........ you also can play the victim card over and over and over until you get something for free...".just let me show you ".... he proselytizes

dreadlocks , that makes alot of sense ... look at haiti, the u.s. always jnvades and now i know why

Be careful Chill your pliable little mind is being taken over by the dark side.....soon you will be playing Egor to belial.....Goofball economic theory and political lefty whining and complaining will take you no where and fast

you see, chillaxin, dirtbags like Gouletcolonial are throwbacks to the dark ages of colonialism and slavery. they do not believe that third world countries should have sovereignty, but be the outposts of europe and the north americans. he is so asinine that he describes a call to defend the sovereignty of one's country as racist.. a man as stupid as this does not deserve public audience

"H.Rap Dread" your use of those adjectives only tells of your origin ..... Resorting to name calling and playing the slimy race card off the bottom of the deck as usual also indicates your hidden agenda

I’m new to this site is it a verbal jousting match between you 2 on every topic, foreign investment is not always good, and I think putting so much dependency on just one sector can not be good , against the woes of the world economic cycle.

casanova who could disagree with what you say ?

lol

some might disagree mainly in cuba

I know I can find some, can you ? lol

GC:

Agree with You 100% regarding this gentleman Dreadlocks, always playing the race card to whin about any given situation.

And the rest of the planet wonders why His people live in extreme poverty, this is a rough and realistic example.

Casanova .Nothing in this world succeeds like failure. What's good for Cuba is good for America!

Rubirosa, i reply only to ask you this: what do you mean when you say " his people"? firstly , you purport to be posting from the United States, and it is sad that, having lived there at least even briefly, you have not managed to avail yourself of educational opportunities. you seem content to remain a colossal ignoramus, making silly remarks, non sequiturs, and feeble attempts at insults. the fact that you have consonant viewpoints with Gouletcolonial speaks volumes about your lack of anything meaningful. remember this is a man who asserted that slavery was a benefit to the africans. not far off from a man who in the year 2008 still refers to Spain as "the motherland". you two belong together, and, maybe, you are the same person!

are you the guy who marked Cynthia Mckinney box for president ? and you know why he does not remember ...because you are a liar I did not say it....I said what practically everyone now knows that is " if the public voted today in Zimbabwe between the status quo and the bounty of the Apartheid government of Ian Smith they would vote for Ian Smith " that is what the people of Zimbabwe say ...you liar...We know your a big supporter of Mugabe and his redistribution plans ....you even recommend it for the Dr ...So stay in Zimbabwe with your hero and stop making trouble in the DR

Gouletcolonial, you are the modern day Joseph Goebels: you are a foul and scurrilous liar, when you say i support Mugabe. i dare you to find any post of mine which supports Mugabe. i expressly declared my opposition to his expropriation of the lands of white people. but you are probably some relic of the nazi propaganda machine: tell the lie over and over, and people will start believing it. are you sure that the guys from the Eli Weisel center are not on your tail? is that why you can't stay in one place for any length of time? man, you are unprincipled beyond belief. i have disagreements with people like Rubirosa, but i have nothing in his posts to indicate that he is evil. he steadfastly sticks to his beliefs, like them or not. but he is not a vindictive person, and has principles. you are an absolute lizard: you will do anything to discredit people, including the nazi propaganda methods. and to what end? i never begged you to agree with me, but there is no need to be a vicious,

childish creature, who always seems to want to pick fights. if you want a piece of me that badly, name the place and the time: i know i will show up, because, unlike you , i am no punk. you are completely amoral,Goulet, and a coward to boot. you are only tough at a distance, under the cover of anonymity. you claim to be waiting till Fidel dies to go and urinate on his grave. i bet if you ran into him in a dark alley, even in his decrepit and emachiated state ,you would run away like the punk ass you are. you are irrevocably disdainful, you sewer rat!

Dread & GC.

You BOTH are abegining to sound more and more like BELIEL with his constant derrogatory remarks about capitalists.

That is no way to conduct a debate.

That IS what we area conducting here, isn't it?

I'm begining to wonder just why we continue to post . We can't seem to post more than two times without either or both of you entering into a pi$$ing contest with each other over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the subject.

Stay on subjec or get the hell off the web.

TB

Bill, as i said before, this guy started this thing. there are subjects on which he is knowledgeable, and i allow him to post in peace. but every time i make a post, before the ink is dry, he attacks, like a stalker. he has a beef with me, for some hidden psychological reason, and will not leave me alone. so, i am simply saying that instead of dragging this misery out ad nauseam, let him collide with me face to face and get his rocks off!

these are people who are arriving with large wads of cash, and who, by virtue of the strength of wealth, can change the social, political and cultural landscape, in their favor. they can buy ordinances to restrict entry of locals into their ¨gated communities..they can restrict locals from access to beaches. they can monopolise certain employment opportunities, restricting them to their friends and compatriots. these are not theoretical insights; these are things i witnessed on a daily basis in the DR. in the main, the only benefits accrue to the newly arrived, while the locals get a few jobs as maids and gardeners. if you do not believe this is so, go to a place such as Cabarete and see who owns all the primo beachfront restaurants and clubs. if you are Dominican, try to get one for yourself, ..THESE ARE THE PEOPLE......WHO ? SAY IT ...YOU RACIST CHARLATAN.....and remember I did not call you a dirt bag or a nazi or a sewer rat

..I said what practically everyone now knows that is " if the public voted today in Zimbabwe between the status quo and the bounty of the Apartheid government of Ian Smith they would vote for Ian Smith " that is what the people of Zimbabwe say ...you liar......That does not make me a supporter of Ian Smith .....what it says is how bad things have become in Zimbabwe....how does this say I believe in slavery ?