SANTO DOMINGO.- Tourist arrivals grew 2.1% in the first 11 months last year, but fell 28% in November compared with the same month the previous year, a drop industry analysts blame on the global economic crisis of the last few months, mainly in the U.S. and Europe, the country’s major tourist markets.
Visits by foreigners fell 27.6% in November, when the high season began, compared with the previous year; 322,013 tourists arrived in November, 2007, whereas 233,185 came in 2008, or 88,628 less.
In absolute terms from January to November, 2008 country the received 3,140,253 tourists, or 2.1% more than in 2007, when 3,075,674 visitors came, said the Central Bank.
Of the group of major market countries only the United States, Canada and France had an accumulated growth in 2008 compared with 2007, of 1.4, 9.7 and 3%. Those three nations’ markets account for 58.5% of the total tourists who visit the country.
Spain, Great Britain, Germany, Puerto Rico and Italy posted negative numbers. The Spanish market fell 24.1% in November, with an accumulated fall of 10.4% in the year; Italy follows with 9.4% and a 11.4% fall in November; Puerto Rico continues the negative list with 7.1% in 2008, followed by Germany, with 3.7% fall and Great Britain wit 2.4%.
Written by: josean, 13 Jan 2009 7:59 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
oo!
Written by: josean, 13 Jan 2009 8:03 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
They must not be marketing the 8th wonder of the world correctly!
Once the world realizes we have a METRO the airports will be full again!
Written by: juanb, 13 Jan 2009 8:12 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Just wait until Americans can go to Cuba. A 28% decline will seem like a good increase.
Written by: josean, 13 Jan 2009 8:18 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Why do you think Chauncey is lighting candles to Santa Barbara alias Chango!
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
they will be very disappointed by the quality of the hotels ....and that will not happen for a while yet...curiosity is one thing cheesy hotels and bad food is another ...if they lifted the embargo next week it would still take Cuba years to build the equivalent hospitality industry ....eat and drink till you puke does not make a tourism industry ...Golf courses etc take years to build and in this economic climate that will be slow ....But It Is Coming and the DR had better not be complacent
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
josean is interviewing for a caddy position at the first golf course when they finish it in 2011 he will be competing against the doctors and engineers ....those who think the embargo will be lifted by Congress this year do not understand this situation....get rid of the fossils first
Written by: josean, 13 Jan 2009 8:32 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Even Jorgie Jr. has seen the Light Chauncey!
“U.S. policy towards Cuba is at best static and at worst counter-productive, a source of increasing frustration to many Cuban Americans,” Jorge Mas Santos, chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), wrote late in October in a Washington Post opinion column that endorsed Obama.
That communist front organization the US Chamber of Commerce has abandoned you as well!
"In the words of Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: “All you have to do is go over to Cuba and watch how the Spanish, the French, the Latin Americans and everybody else on the globe are building resorts or trying to invest, and we are sitting here with a 50-year-old policy that doesn’t work.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-de....ama-win-goodbye-to-cuban-embargo/From: United States
First fire the idiot who said the DR would not be affected.
And any of his relatives that are working, they will never understand.
From: United States, Washington
Is this story a surprise? THis is a flaw of basing your economic model on an outward-oriented orientation (pardon the redundancy). WE NEED TO BUILD AN INTERNAL MARKET that will promote and sustain economic activity in the DR. If we count on remittances, tourism, and FTZs for our economy, they are all susceptible to the same economic flows - case in point is the current crisis. We have no counter-cyclical strategy to maintain economic activity in the DR. We have no domestic industries to provide jobs and manufacture goods that a domestic middle-class would buy.
Instead, we base our economic model on increasingly reducing labor costs and taxes to attract investments from core countries. Do we really want to brag that we have the lowest labor costs? That is not a way for us to promote an internal market! On the other hand, that is a way to maintain our population in economic precariousness, promote migration, and support the inequality and poverty that feeds political clientelism!
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
yes Baldy you are correct a fine balance is necessary...but dont throw out the baby with the bathwater
Written by: juanb, 13 Jan 2009 10:51 AM
From: Dominican Republic
That's the way it is here.
That is how we always have done it.
When we, if ever, stop hearing these two phrases, then maybe we can start to improve. Till then, the way we have always done it because that 's the way it is here, will continue to fail us and keep us a 3rd world country (althought at the rate we are going backwards, they may have to invent a new category, like "4th world" or "other planet" to describe the DR). Actually that would be kind of cool. Just imagine telling someone that you live in the Dominican Republic and they reply, "Isn't that another planet? I kinda like the sound of hat.
From: United States, Reality Check
Good! Get out of the drug business. Decide if you want to be apart of DR-CAFTA & a tourist mecca or sell dope?
Well, wait! I just got a call from Lionel who said this report was erroneous because "the DR IS IMMUNE TO AN WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN"
DT, you must print a retraction.
If you come to RD then visit Santiago and come to the barrio of Ensanche Caonabo (Los Platanitos) near the Cibao Stadium & Children's Hospital (on the side of the elementary school). On the street Calle A Traversal there is a BLUE HONDA CIVIC and you can come up the hill and buy drugs from the Tigueres lead by CHOPPO PICHARDO under Santiago police protection and a free get out of jail card. All thanks to US EMBASSY anti-narcotic, DNCD and the NATIONAL POLICE and US DEA (sleeping behind the wheel)
Maybe some tourist want to have a good time drug free and thus the numbers are down. But you ain't seen nothing yet the worst of the credit crisis is not in full swing!
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
josean big news in Havana ....old fossil allows private Taxis ...Raul is going to put the neuro surgeons out of business
Written by: josean, 13 Jan 2009 1:43 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
They will be fine as long as he doesn't build a METRO!
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
There you go resident Tourism Experts: The cat's out the bag.
You thought you knew your subject matter. Well, it's back to Guessing School for you.
Que mucho saben!
When you don't even know what time it is?
Many were quick to condemm those of us who foretold that there would be losses in Tourist Visits after the maneuvered financial decline. The problem is world-wide.
This is just one of the flaws of "Globalization", now prepare for the rest of what on the Globalist Platter.
Less is more!
Back in your box, Jack!
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Written by: baldoria23, 13 Jan 2009 9:13 AM
Instead, we base our economic model on increasingly reducing labor costs and taxes to attract investments from core countries. Do we really want to brag that we have the lowest labor costs? That is not a way for us to promote an internal market! On the other hand, that is a way to maintain our population in economic precariousness, promote migration, and support the inequality and poverty that feeds political clientelism!
Mi hermano baldoria;
That's exactly what the puppet masters and the titeres (moniguotes) in charge are trying to achieve. It's called Globalism: Planned Chaos, destroy countries from within, cause them to implode and collapse; That way the awaited one will step to the fore and say: "I have a universal plan to solve of humanity's ills". This is all DOVETAILING with other harebrained schemes around the world. Trying to crash economies. No plan B; Only dismantaling the Staus Quo.... Last one down is a rotten egg!
Written by: bernies, 13 Jan 2009 4:39 PM
From: United States, key west fl
how can it grew 2.1% in the first 11 months when it fell 28% in november can somebody explain that to me. isn't november the 11th month of the year.
Written by: danny00, 13 Jan 2009 5:38 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
CUBA, yes cuba..... americans will love to go to cuba....why?... 90 miles from key west florida, short ride..... up until 1958 when castro took power cuba was the place to go for many americans.. ok meyer lansky ran the casinos with batista it was a great place for all to go. and will be again. i dont think its going to take lots of time to get the hotels and get golf courses going plenty of cubans with LOTS OF DOLLARS in miami ready to go for now they are buying in the dom rep. as they tell me because it looks a lot like cuba and reminds them of home.... any way THE DONALD will be their in a heart beat and build a other hotel . then the dr is in big trouble.... guess they will always get the folks from the u.k. why? all you can eat.....
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Written by: danny00, 13 Jan 2009 5:38 PM
From: United States
CUBA, yes cuba..... americans will love to go to cuba....why?... 90 miles from key west florida...
danny:
Are you kidding me? Do you know that much about Cuba? About the U.S.
Well, either you're a Cuban or you see things from a Cuban perspective. Either way, your assesments are unfounded.
Why did the U.S. impose an embargo on Cuba back then?
Because.....Wait, a little suspense....Varadero, Cienfuegos, Camaguey, Holguin, Pinar del Rio.
Now I got you slobbering; Remiscing about las croquetas de jamon y la colada, no?
Well, the reason was that Cuba nationalized all American businesses: their investments were in the millions. With one swoop of his beard it was all taken away by the Coma-andante.
Would you jump back in the cut for another round of rolling the gringo? Monina, que pasa?
The era of Cuba's glory are gone; Face it and give way for the next rising star on the seas.
Cuba wasn't all that anyway!
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
danny: OOH , Cuba:
Continues:
Cuba was propped up by the U.S.; Prior to that by Spain as her favorite child. A place to go do all the things you couldn't do back in Iberia, an the likes.
Well, back to Century 21: Cuba is washed up. They call the concept "Too little to late".
In the streets they say: "If you snooze, you loose". And your Cuba, has been in REM, for a long time. Even, if she staggered and got the will to do something new...This late in the game...
The U.S. ain't buying into that "Yo soy e' bravo", biz, again!
Written by: danny00, 13 Jan 2009 5:57 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
i live in key west have been in cuba many times.. my wife is cuban.....
Written by: josean, 13 Jan 2009 5:58 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Running cigars, eh Danny Boy!
Written by: danny00, 13 Jan 2009 6:03 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
With one swoop of his beard it was all taken away by the Coma-andante.. ok! but this can happen in any country.... dont know if you know this info.. but the biggest business in the dr a few years back was to sell ONE GRINGO some property and then swindle him out of it...
and it stills goes on TODAY..... but now dominicans even swindle other dominicans with phoney deeds or paper work....one fellow i knew bought one house from a very nice old dominican lady 2 weeks later about 50 dominicans show up at the house, one dominican the LEADER of the group said it was his LAND and said if he did not get out they would KILL HIM.... HE RAN AS FAST AS GO COULD.....
Written by: danny00, 13 Jan 2009 6:04 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
no cigars.... DEEP SEA FISHING CAPT.... a honest one
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Anyway back to my country DR: Things are gonna get prickly in a minute; But, there is light at the end of the tunnel. With the good-natured people that offer a change of the usual: Will that be 1 or 2 sugars with your coffee service. DR will beat Cuba even on a rainy day, and with one arm tied behind her back.
Fuera, Cuba is the past!
DR is and has been reality; No mother country subsidizing; Or Russhkies pouring billions in a failed socialist system and economy. Castro corta, corta tu caña! Now, even if you prefer tall tales choose Cuba: They have the best story tellers in the world; Only two others come close the Argentinians, and Crazy Eddies of the world in Israel. They talk a good game.
La Zafra del '69 y los 10, 000,000 donde estan? Van 40 y los Van Van siguen con la muela!
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Danny:
but now dominicans even swindle other dominicans with phoney deeds or paper work....one fellow i knew bought one house from a very nice old dominican lady 2 weeks later about 50 dominicans show up at the house,
Yeah, but they learnt from the Cubiche racketeers that come to Punta Cana in flete!
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Danny:
I think that Tony Robbins must visit Cuba on the DL; He must have picked up his bombastic, pontificating lingo in the Island Paradise. And is teaching others how to "muela" (MaD-Off) their way around. He's taken the show on the road!
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Danny:
You're comparing apples to mamoncillos, nague!
What took placein Cuba was I believe until then the largest appropriation of SEP (someone else property) by a ruffian in charge. No comparison. Write that in lipstip, or crayon?
A petty scoundrel rolling some Joe Smoe from Kokomo with $10,ooo wanting to buy beach front property, is no comparison to a Tyrant kicking all foreign nationals (some with deeds and keys in their pockets) out, to go for a walk for good. The proportions are not the same! We're talking about liason offices for American Companies that were headquartered inCuba because its proximity to U.S., and the common Spanish language with HispanoAmerica.
Castro stole the whole shibang! Just like that!
Written by: abc200, 13 Jan 2009 7:47 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Written by: Jander, 13 Jan 2009 11:26 PM
From: Dominican Republic
What's all this "to do " about Cuba.
None of this will change , besides the Doj would have to redo the webite.. that could take years in it self..
November 07, 2008
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: Cuba is a totalitarian police state which relies on repressive methods to maintain control. These methods, including intense physical and electronic surveillance of Cubans, are also extended to foreign travelers. Americans visiting Cuba should be aware that any encounter with a Cuban could be subject to surreptitious scrutiny by the Castro regime's secret police, the General Directorate for State Security (DGSE). Also, any interactions with average Cubans, regardless of how well intentioned the American may be, can subject that
Written by: Jander, 13 Jan 2009 11:29 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Also, any interactions with average Cubans, regardless of how well intentioned the American may be, can subject that Cuban to harassment and/or detention, and other forms of repressive actions, by state security elements. The regime is strongly anti-American, yet desperate for U.S. dollars to prop itself up. The United States does not have full diplomatic relations with Cuba, but provides consular and other services through the U.S. Interests Section in Havana. The U.S. Interests Section operates under the legal protection of the Swiss government but is not co-located with the Swiss Embassy.
Read the Department of State Background Notes on Cuba for additional information.
Written by: abc200, 13 Jan 2009 11:44 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Written by: abc200, 13 Jan 2009 11:56 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Written by: josean, 14 Jan 2009 1:33 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
jander,
You should not be posting things that Chauncey sends you via email as if they were your own!
Written by: josean, 14 Jan 2009 2:33 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Oo! Cardinal Nicky is pissed at the competition. Christian tourist not welcome in DR!
His statement may cause all non Catholics to boycott DR!
You better straighten him out Lie-onel, before Pat Robertson finds out and declares a christian "fatwa'' on Dominican tourism.
Hey Cardinal Nicky isn't President Obama a member of what you define as christian sect?
You better get ready to "splain yourself" when El Papa calls, asking why you are insulting the religion of the President of the United States!
http://www.elcaribecdn.com.do/art....D59892CCCD0168E180&Seccion=63From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
it will be soon ...the bus will be leaving for Havana and the mass defecation on the grave of El Comondante...Raul will be leaving to go live in Caracas with nutty Hugo....Congress will not lift the embargo this year
Written by: josean, 14 Jan 2009 2:30 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Chauncey,
That noise you hear in your head (other than the voices, thats another issue) is the clock ticking as time runs out on your dear EMBARGO.
I would consider you for a GMC dealership in Pinar del Rio, are you in?
Written by: danny00, 14 Jan 2009 5:10 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
Arsenio..... what iam saying is no one should loose their money in any country if they buy a home or beach front, this does not happen in the states and most other countries.... YES MANY CUBAN CROOKS OR GANGSTERS, AS SO IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC..... but also many, many, really good folks in BOTH COUNTRIES..... sad thing in the dr. is if you get swindel NO ONE IS going to help you in the dr....i have bought many homes in the states never had i ever had ONE PROBLEM....we have tittle companys to make sure all is on the up and up, if they make a mistake they pay fopr their mistake. just get a little upset when in lets say santo domingo some wise guys sell the same condo 2-3 times to differnt people..... i work hard for my money would not like this to happen to me.
Written by: danny00, 14 Jan 2009 5:13 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
UASD Dean Franklin Garcia Fermin is reporting that 32 solar panels worth RD$14 million have been stolen from the Agriculture and Veterinarian Studies Department. Garcia did not dismiss the possibility that members of the University security team could have been responsible, because the Department is in front of the security offices. The first 20 panels were reported missing on 19 December 2008, while the remaining 12 were reported missing later. The panels were donated by the French Embassy to provide light to those departments.
had to get this any thing they will not steal in the dr.?
From: United States
GC, i predicted 30% falloff. i remember you offering 7%. 28% is the current figure, but i have no margin of error number. 28%, 30%, whatever. this number is not manageable, as i told you in a prior post.
Written by: josean, 14 Jan 2009 7:28 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Chauncey, your neighborhood is going downhill!
Source DR1
Colonial Zone feels slump
Retailers in the Colonial Zone say that sales have dropped by a whopping 80% in recent months and that they have not felt the fruits of the current tourist high season. They claim that fewer tourists are visiting the Zone's museums and monuments. Some vendors believe that high taxes on small businesses and the high crime levels in the Colonial Zone are partly to blame for the decrease in shopping. A recent Central Bank report indicates that while overall tourism on an annual basis was up by 2.1% in 2008, tourist arrivals decreased by 27.6% in November. Some vendors, interviewed in Hoy, say that the cruise ship industry has helped to reactivate business, but that it hasn't been enough. Other vendors believe there are too many businesses selling the same products, which affects competitiveness, and that tourist packages run by large tour operators are monopolized, also hurting sales.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
this is the problem in a nut shell .........."Other vendors believe there are too many businesses selling the same products, which affects competitiveness, and that tourist packages run by large tour operators are monopolized, also hurting sales.".............Junk products and greedy parasitic tour guides
Written by: Homer, 15 Jan 2009 10:41 AM
From: United States
Cuba or RD, it doesn't matter, there's no money in our pockets to do any vacations from the U.S. especially coming from California .
I was once in the RD, was not impressed at all, the airport was a complete dump, looked like a bomb went off in there, there were beggars right outside the exit/entrance door of the airport so bad it took me at least 30 minutes to get out and the stench in the air was horrific, the power generators were ALL not operating so there was little power to go around.
the chicken shop they call pollo cibio was serving the worst chicken that appeared to have killed at birth, a chicken leg was the size of my thumb and those nasty smelling fried bananas were killing my sinus's, yea I could say you guy's Definably 4th or maybe even 5th world.
But hey it wasn't all bad , I was entertained by the runway lights at airport when I landed, that's really going green for the planet when you use bon fires for runway lights .
Oh yea driving down the streets was a pleasure
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Written by: Homer, 15 Jan 2009 10:41 AM
From: United States
Cuba or RD, it doesn't matter, there's no money in our pockets to do any vacations from the U.S. especially coming from California .
I was once in the RD, was not impressed at all, the airport was a complete dump, looked like a bomb went off in there, there were beggars right outside the exit/entrance door of the airport so bad it took me at least 30 minutes to get out and the stench in the air was horrific, the power generators were ALL not operating so there was little power to go around.
Homer:
I sympathize with you; Ask for your $200 back; They will probably refund it!
Next time go to Cuba the air there smells European; And the beggars wear uniforms, and are doctor's and engineers. Of course don't ask any questions there, just smile and enjoy the Cuban ambiance!
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Written by: danny00, 14 Jan 2009 5:10 PM
From: United States
Arsenio..... what iam saying is no one should loose their money in any country if they buy a home or beach front, this does not happen in the states and most other countries
Danny007:
Next time you troll off Cuban waters, or go scuba diving off the Havana Malecon dis-embark and ask any jinetera to show you the government agents that will sell you "the best" beachfront property real chep; Or when you go to the Bodeguita del Medio to have your Mojito ask for Barbarito who will sell you Ernest Hemingway's Palace.
Just do yourself a favor stick to your Cuban clientele, they speak your language: Muela!
Written by: danny00, 15 Jan 2009 5:19 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
arsenio..... im not going to BUY in santo domingo or CUBA....... i know what goes in both countries.... im really happy when i get off the plane at mia.... at least the customs agents at this airport do not shake me down..... to be fair though since LF. is in office things have gotten better at the airport in puerto plata.... they are affraid to TAKE MONEY with this guy in office....nice to see this... had a friend come from new york to see me in pop.... i was waiting out side for him.... boy! did he look upset.... said that they the customs agents told him he had to pay them $20us FOR THEM TO NOT LOOK IN THIS LUGGAGE.... real nice welcome to the dom rep.... hes never going back he told me....just think at mia or jfk do dominicans get shaken down?....what im saying nice island but get rid of the GANGSTERS if you can then just maybe things will really get GOOD in the country for ALL the good people that live their...
Written by: danny00, 15 Jan 2009 5:22 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
be nice also if the dom government STOPS letting in all the MAFIA GRINGOS from other countries... like the 1,000 that live in sousa, or costomber.... lots of very bad gangsters from italy, russia, the united states.... yes GRINGOS.... that to run from the police in their own countries and find a HAVEN in the dr......
Written by: danny00, 15 Jan 2009 5:29 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
one good note.... before i go on with my life..... one day few years ago i flew into santo domingo.... on my way to pop.... my luggage was lost for about one hour.... i was really upset.. one POLICE OFFICER {DOMINICIAN}... came over to me and ask me my name.... he said they found my luggage.... i was really happy at this point he took me to one office and said isa this ours..... yes was the answer.... i pulled out ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL and offer him this money he REFUSED to take it.... he said you dont have to pay to get your luggage back.....ONE BIG PLUS for one HONEST POLICE OFFICER in the dom rep....{ the luggage had $1,000 of clothing, meds, toys, i was giving out to poor folks in the CAMPO.....
Written by: danny00, 15 Jan 2009 5:32 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
hommer tyou could not have said it better then you did.....
that is all true about every thing you mention....
From: United States
gangsters, danny00? i thought they were "investors". thanks for the heads-up.
Written by: danny00, 16 Jan 2009 3:58 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
last year i was looking to buy one condo in santo domingo....... INVESTORS!....... saw some fellows who live in the building. big gold chains around their neck, did not look very intelligent or spoke so, had their JORDANS on, INVESTORS i thought to my self....
sorry i would like to invest with lets say THE DONALD.... not DRUG DEALERS from washington heights, or CUBA, ect!.... DONT WANT TO LIVE IN THE SAME BUILDING WITH THEM, DONT WANT TO LIVE ON THE SAME BLOCK WITH THEM, DONT WANT TO LIVE IN THE SAME CITY WITH THEM, OH! ALMOST FORGET DONT WANT TO LIVE IN THE SAME COUNTRY IF I CAN HELP IT....beautiful country get RID of the gangsters or at least try....
Written by: danny00, 16 Jan 2009 4:01 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
maybe if the BANKS would REPORT hugh deposits like over $10,000us TO THE GOVERNMENT AND POLICE and some one looked into these people that would be a start.... NO INSTEAD IF YOU SHOW UP WITH LARGE SUMS OF MONEY IN THE DOMINGO EVERY ONE WELCOMES YOU WITH OPEN ARMS.... yes it goes on in other countries but we are talking about the dom rep NOW.... not other countries..... so lets not go their....
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Once the world realizes we have a METRO the airports will be full again!
“U.S. policy towards Cuba is at best static and at worst counter-productive, a source of increasing frustration to many Cuban Americans,” Jorge Mas Santos, chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), wrote late in October in a Washington Post opinion column that endorsed Obama.
That communist front organization the US Chamber of Commerce has abandoned you as well!
"In the words of Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: “All you have to do is go over to Cuba and watch how the Spanish, the French, the Latin Americans and everybody else on the globe are building resorts or trying to invest, and we are sitting here with a 50-year-old policy that doesn’t work.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-de....ama-win-goodbye-to-cuban-embargo/
First fire the idiot who said the DR would not be affected.
And any of his relatives that are working, they will never understand.
Instead, we base our economic model on increasingly reducing labor costs and taxes to attract investments from core countries. Do we really want to brag that we have the lowest labor costs? That is not a way for us to promote an internal market! On the other hand, that is a way to maintain our population in economic precariousness, promote migration, and support the inequality and poverty that feeds political clientelism!
That is how we always have done it.
When we, if ever, stop hearing these two phrases, then maybe we can start to improve. Till then, the way we have always done it because that 's the way it is here, will continue to fail us and keep us a 3rd world country (althought at the rate we are going backwards, they may have to invent a new category, like "4th world" or "other planet" to describe the DR). Actually that would be kind of cool. Just imagine telling someone that you live in the Dominican Republic and they reply, "Isn't that another planet? I kinda like the sound of hat.
Well, wait! I just got a call from Lionel who said this report was erroneous because "the DR IS IMMUNE TO AN WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN"
DT, you must print a retraction.
If you come to RD then visit Santiago and come to the barrio of Ensanche Caonabo (Los Platanitos) near the Cibao Stadium & Children's Hospital (on the side of the elementary school). On the street Calle A Traversal there is a BLUE HONDA CIVIC and you can come up the hill and buy drugs from the Tigueres lead by CHOPPO PICHARDO under Santiago police protection and a free get out of jail card. All thanks to US EMBASSY anti-narcotic, DNCD and the NATIONAL POLICE and US DEA (sleeping behind the wheel)
Maybe some tourist want to have a good time drug free and thus the numbers are down. But you ain't seen nothing yet the worst of the credit crisis is not in full swing!
You thought you knew your subject matter. Well, it's back to Guessing School for you.
Que mucho saben!
When you don't even know what time it is?
Many were quick to condemm those of us who foretold that there would be losses in Tourist Visits after the maneuvered financial decline. The problem is world-wide.
This is just one of the flaws of "Globalization", now prepare for the rest of what on the Globalist Platter.
Less is more!
Back in your box, Jack!
Instead, we base our economic model on increasingly reducing labor costs and taxes to attract investments from core countries. Do we really want to brag that we have the lowest labor costs? That is not a way for us to promote an internal market! On the other hand, that is a way to maintain our population in economic precariousness, promote migration, and support the inequality and poverty that feeds political clientelism!
Mi hermano baldoria;
That's exactly what the puppet masters and the titeres (moniguotes) in charge are trying to achieve. It's called Globalism: Planned Chaos, destroy countries from within, cause them to implode and collapse; That way the awaited one will step to the fore and say: "I have a universal plan to solve of humanity's ills". This is all DOVETAILING with other harebrained schemes around the world. Trying to crash economies. No plan B; Only dismantaling the Staus Quo.... Last one down is a rotten egg!
From: United States
CUBA, yes cuba..... americans will love to go to cuba....why?... 90 miles from key west florida...
danny:
Are you kidding me? Do you know that much about Cuba? About the U.S.
Well, either you're a Cuban or you see things from a Cuban perspective. Either way, your assesments are unfounded.
Why did the U.S. impose an embargo on Cuba back then?
Because.....Wait, a little suspense....Varadero, Cienfuegos, Camaguey, Holguin, Pinar del Rio.
Now I got you slobbering; Remiscing about las croquetas de jamon y la colada, no?
Well, the reason was that Cuba nationalized all American businesses: their investments were in the millions. With one swoop of his beard it was all taken away by the Coma-andante.
Would you jump back in the cut for another round of rolling the gringo? Monina, que pasa?
The era of Cuba's glory are gone; Face it and give way for the next rising star on the seas.
Cuba wasn't all that anyway!
Continues:
Cuba was propped up by the U.S.; Prior to that by Spain as her favorite child. A place to go do all the things you couldn't do back in Iberia, an the likes.
Well, back to Century 21: Cuba is washed up. They call the concept "Too little to late".
In the streets they say: "If you snooze, you loose". And your Cuba, has been in REM, for a long time. Even, if she staggered and got the will to do something new...This late in the game...
The U.S. ain't buying into that "Yo soy e' bravo", biz, again!
and it stills goes on TODAY..... but now dominicans even swindle other dominicans with phoney deeds or paper work....one fellow i knew bought one house from a very nice old dominican lady 2 weeks later about 50 dominicans show up at the house, one dominican the LEADER of the group said it was his LAND and said if he did not get out they would KILL HIM.... HE RAN AS FAST AS GO COULD.....
Fuera, Cuba is the past!
DR is and has been reality; No mother country subsidizing; Or Russhkies pouring billions in a failed socialist system and economy. Castro corta, corta tu caña! Now, even if you prefer tall tales choose Cuba: They have the best story tellers in the world; Only two others come close the Argentinians, and Crazy Eddies of the world in Israel. They talk a good game.
La Zafra del '69 y los 10, 000,000 donde estan? Van 40 y los Van Van siguen con la muela!
but now dominicans even swindle other dominicans with phoney deeds or paper work....one fellow i knew bought one house from a very nice old dominican lady 2 weeks later about 50 dominicans show up at the house,
Yeah, but they learnt from the Cubiche racketeers that come to Punta Cana in flete!
I think that Tony Robbins must visit Cuba on the DL; He must have picked up his bombastic, pontificating lingo in the Island Paradise. And is teaching others how to "muela" (MaD-Off) their way around. He's taken the show on the road!
You're comparing apples to mamoncillos, nague!
What took placein Cuba was I believe until then the largest appropriation of SEP (someone else property) by a ruffian in charge. No comparison. Write that in lipstip, or crayon?
A petty scoundrel rolling some Joe Smoe from Kokomo with $10,ooo wanting to buy beach front property, is no comparison to a Tyrant kicking all foreign nationals (some with deeds and keys in their pockets) out, to go for a walk for good. The proportions are not the same! We're talking about liason offices for American Companies that were headquartered inCuba because its proximity to U.S., and the common Spanish language with HispanoAmerica.
Castro stole the whole shibang! Just like that!
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-07/tgmwc-07-63-02.shtml
S.
None of this will change , besides the Doj would have to redo the webite.. that could take years in it self..
November 07, 2008
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: Cuba is a totalitarian police state which relies on repressive methods to maintain control. These methods, including intense physical and electronic surveillance of Cubans, are also extended to foreign travelers. Americans visiting Cuba should be aware that any encounter with a Cuban could be subject to surreptitious scrutiny by the Castro regime's secret police, the General Directorate for State Security (DGSE). Also, any interactions with average Cubans, regardless of how well intentioned the American may be, can subject that
Read the Department of State Background Notes on Cuba for additional information.
Cuba supports press freedom but no Cuban journalist can report from the USA. Such amazing hypocracy!
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordp....5/28/cuba-supports-press-freedom/
S.
http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
http://lpdctexas.blogspot.com/
Only difference - Cuba has offered to release all under an exchange deal.
S.
You should not be posting things that Chauncey sends you via email as if they were your own!
His statement may cause all non Catholics to boycott DR!
You better straighten him out Lie-onel, before Pat Robertson finds out and declares a christian "fatwa'' on Dominican tourism.
Hey Cardinal Nicky isn't President Obama a member of what you define as christian sect?
You better get ready to "splain yourself" when El Papa calls, asking why you are insulting the religion of the President of the United States!
http://www.elcaribecdn.com.do/art....D59892CCCD0168E180&Seccion=63
That noise you hear in your head (other than the voices, thats another issue) is the clock ticking as time runs out on your dear EMBARGO.
I would consider you for a GMC dealership in Pinar del Rio, are you in?
had to get this any thing they will not steal in the dr.?
Source DR1
Colonial Zone feels slump
Retailers in the Colonial Zone say that sales have dropped by a whopping 80% in recent months and that they have not felt the fruits of the current tourist high season. They claim that fewer tourists are visiting the Zone's museums and monuments. Some vendors believe that high taxes on small businesses and the high crime levels in the Colonial Zone are partly to blame for the decrease in shopping. A recent Central Bank report indicates that while overall tourism on an annual basis was up by 2.1% in 2008, tourist arrivals decreased by 27.6% in November. Some vendors, interviewed in Hoy, say that the cruise ship industry has helped to reactivate business, but that it hasn't been enough. Other vendors believe there are too many businesses selling the same products, which affects competitiveness, and that tourist packages run by large tour operators are monopolized, also hurting sales.
I was once in the RD, was not impressed at all, the airport was a complete dump, looked like a bomb went off in there, there were beggars right outside the exit/entrance door of the airport so bad it took me at least 30 minutes to get out and the stench in the air was horrific, the power generators were ALL not operating so there was little power to go around.
the chicken shop they call pollo cibio was serving the worst chicken that appeared to have killed at birth, a chicken leg was the size of my thumb and those nasty smelling fried bananas were killing my sinus's, yea I could say you guy's Definably 4th or maybe even 5th world.
But hey it wasn't all bad , I was entertained by the runway lights at airport when I landed, that's really going green for the planet when you use bon fires for runway lights .
Oh yea driving down the streets was a pleasure
From: United States
Cuba or RD, it doesn't matter, there's no money in our pockets to do any vacations from the U.S. especially coming from California .
I was once in the RD, was not impressed at all, the airport was a complete dump, looked like a bomb went off in there, there were beggars right outside the exit/entrance door of the airport so bad it took me at least 30 minutes to get out and the stench in the air was horrific, the power generators were ALL not operating so there was little power to go around.
Homer:
I sympathize with you; Ask for your $200 back; They will probably refund it!
Next time go to Cuba the air there smells European; And the beggars wear uniforms, and are doctor's and engineers. Of course don't ask any questions there, just smile and enjoy the Cuban ambiance!
Written by: danny00, 14 Jan 2009 5:10 PM
From: United States
Arsenio..... what iam saying is no one should loose their money in any country if they buy a home or beach front, this does not happen in the states and most other countries
Danny007:
Next time you troll off Cuban waters, or go scuba diving off the Havana Malecon dis-embark and ask any jinetera to show you the government agents that will sell you "the best" beachfront property real chep; Or when you go to the Bodeguita del Medio to have your Mojito ask for Barbarito who will sell you Ernest Hemingway's Palace.
Just do yourself a favor stick to your Cuban clientele, they speak your language: Muela!
that is all true about every thing you mention....
sorry i would like to invest with lets say THE DONALD.... not DRUG DEALERS from washington heights, or CUBA, ect!.... DONT WANT TO LIVE IN THE SAME BUILDING WITH THEM, DONT WANT TO LIVE ON THE SAME BLOCK WITH THEM, DONT WANT TO LIVE IN THE SAME CITY WITH THEM, OH! ALMOST FORGET DONT WANT TO LIVE IN THE SAME COUNTRY IF I CAN HELP IT....beautiful country get RID of the gangsters or at least try....