A million and one tricks...
SANTO DOMINGO. - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) representative in the country, Manuel Labrado, on Tuesday reiterated that there’s still a long way to go before the problem of the blackouts is solved, stressing that electrical fraud continues to be a challenge for the authorities.
The official said to meet that challenge the IDB has been working for 18 months with the Government in strategic plans to improve the electrical system. He has previously said that the problem isn’t in the loans provided for the sector, and instead an issue of commercial management of the energy business.
Labrado, speaking in the National Palace after meeting with Economy minister Temístocles Montas, said regardless of the amount of money injected into a business the problem can’t be solved without a good commercial management for billing and collection for the energy.
From: United States
You retards have been saying that for 10 years.
Does NOTHING embarrass you? The ground hogs day mentality......
Dominicans have no will.. because all the big boys steal electricity. Their entitled to it.
Written by: juanb, 7 Sep 2010 4:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic
So we have to wait for the government to step up and do something?
What can they do besides lie, cheat, and steal.
Ain't never gonna happen.
There is NO WILL on the part of our corrupt leaders to do anything other than to line their pockets.
Written by: juanb, 7 Sep 2010 4:15 PM
From: Dominican Republic
From the "Our government right or wrong (mostly wrong)" Department:
Alfonso Rodriguez, producer of the film La Soga, is complaining that as far as the Dominican Prosecutor General authorities are concerned, drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto has more rights. Rodriguez complained that for the past week a poorly pirated DVD of his film La Soga starring Denise Quinones and Manny Perez is being sold on city streets and the authorities have not taken any action. He reported the forgery to the Police but nothing has been done. "The pirates are on the streets as if nothing was wrong and I say that Figueroa Agosto had more copyright than we do, because his porn video was picked up by the authorities," he commented. He complained that the prosecutors office and the Police confiscated the video from sellers, but not theirs. "Why don't they go pick up the video of La Soga?" he asked.
Written by: juanb, 7 Sep 2010 4:23 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Here is the head of the anticorruption department speaking about the willingness of the government to prosecute the real criminals here:
"But the big guys, no," he says. He says that the big cases are filed, or declared absolved or the government withdraws the accusation. He mentioned the PEME case with RD$2.4 billion that ended in absolution and withdrawal of the accusation. Or the case of the construction of the electric highway using sovereign bonds for RD$2.02 billion. Or the RD$1.8 billion Plan Renove case, in which the main players were absolved.
He says that in 13 of 22 cases presented by the DPCA have been filed, absolved or the accusation withdrawn. He said that in the past 10 years, the courts have only issued sentences in four cases, and partially in two.
He mentioned the cases of Baninter and Mercantil banks where the accused were sentenced, but that nevertheless there was not a judicial process against the bankers by depositors
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
" The floggings will continue until morale improves "
Written by: THINK, 7 Sep 2010 5:16 PM
From: United States, SDQ -- Mia --NY
I think I saw some articles that Lie-onel said starting from yr 2011 or 2012 , there will be no more block out for the power in DR.... (sorry, I can not where I saw that kind saying..... can someone help to refresh this saying?)
why people steal electricity? Because they are learning everyday from the Government., DR government is very good at stealing, corruptions, default payment, .....etc. ( not for everyone, but quite a lot though). So, how could you blame those poor people by stealing electricity?
Written by: zooma, 7 Sep 2010 5:19 PM
From: United States
If the government desires to end the fraud then it must offer incentives to the public to turn in offenders and make the punishment for stealing power so harsh that one dare not steal.
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Yes these are words to guide you through the ages ....."" The floggings will continue until morale improves "......sheer genius lol
Written by: juanb, 7 Sep 2010 5:29 PM
From: Dominican Republic
"If the government desires to end the fraud.................."
They couldn't care less. They are getting what they want and what they need and that's all that matters to them.
Written by: xwill7, 7 Sep 2010 5:35 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
josean?
Written by: BASTA, 7 Sep 2010 5:48 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
If I am not provided electric [ which has worsened this year] How can I steal something that does not exist?
Written by: Atabey, 7 Sep 2010 6:28 PM
From: United States, NYC
Texasshoe stated the answer.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
"He has previously said that the problem isn’t in the loans provided for the sector, and instead an issue of commercial management of the energy business."....So, this means that we have an unfit president?
"The official said to meet that challenge the IDB has been working for 18 months with the Government in strategic plans to improve the electrical system"....I don't need 18 months to tell everyone that the dominican republic is a pipe dream and that morals don't exist and that 90% of gov officials have a 5th grade education and that ONE DAY AT BAND CAMP,..... I PUT MY FLUTE IN YOUR BOX.......
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
k
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
k
From: United States
I do have the solution for the three main problems DR have
-Drugs-Immigrations and Blackouts.-
The DR government should declare the following -Constitution Amendments-
-Amendment #1- legalizes and makes lawful marihuana and all illegal drugs entering the country. Free drugs for everyone- from 19th years and older.
-Amendment #2- legalize/opened world border and free immigration for everybody- not only to Haitians but the entire world.
-Amendment #3- declare unconstitutional Blackouts and legalize tapping and stealing energy from Electric Poles - free energy for everybody in the country.
Together these Amendments will solve all the problems in DR.
Written by: derek, 7 Sep 2010 10:45 PM
From: Dominican Republic
At least they have fired the local manager, and his technician. Maybe, just MAYBE, our service will improve. He was an incompetent idiot, so no loss.
Many times I have told of how we have apartments with legal meters that never get bills, or how we have begged for well over a year to have meters installed in other apartments.
The problem about complaining is that they will try and back-date charges for residents who have long since left
Written by: Atabey, 7 Sep 2010 11:11 PM
From: United States, NYC
Perhaps Haiti and DR should take up the good professor on his offer>
"[R]omer has come up a grand scheme for lifting Africa-[read Haiti] and Asia-[read DR] out of poverty. What they need to do, he argues, is give up a big chunk of their land to a rich country. Policy experts from Washington can take over [Haiti], and invite along GM and Microsoft and Gap to come and set up factories. Poor countries give up their sovereignty in return for the promise of greater prosperity.
His big example is Hong Kong. At the end of the first opium war in 1842, the Chinese were marched on board a British warship anchored off Nanjing and forced to sign Hong Kong away to Queen Victoria. Over the next 150 years, the little island turned into Asia's number one capitalist success story. It was an example that Deng Xiaoping ended up copying on the mainland, in coastal provinces such as Guangdong – to explosive economic effect.
Written by: Atabey, 7 Sep 2010 11:15 PM
From: United States, NYC
China's loss of Hong Kong should not be seen as a national humiliation or great international injustice, Romer has written, but "an intervention" which has "done more to reduce world poverty than all the world's official aid programmes of the 20th century combined — and at a fraction of the cost". What the world needs, the economist argues, is not one but 100 Hong Kongs."
Will Haiti and DR have worse outcomes than those they have historically achieved? I say give the good professor his real life test case and see if his theory is correct.
Written by: Grosero, 8 Sep 2010 9:03 AM
From: United States
WTF......where are my jumper cables...
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HEY THOSE ARE MY JUMPER CABLES.....
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You retards have been saying that for 10 years.
Does NOTHING embarrass you? The ground hogs day mentality......
Dominicans have no will.. because all the big boys steal electricity. Their entitled to it.
What can they do besides lie, cheat, and steal.
Ain't never gonna happen.
There is NO WILL on the part of our corrupt leaders to do anything other than to line their pockets.
From the "Our government right or wrong (mostly wrong)" Department:
Alfonso Rodriguez, producer of the film La Soga, is complaining that as far as the Dominican Prosecutor General authorities are concerned, drug baron Jose David Figueroa Agosto has more rights. Rodriguez complained that for the past week a poorly pirated DVD of his film La Soga starring Denise Quinones and Manny Perez is being sold on city streets and the authorities have not taken any action. He reported the forgery to the Police but nothing has been done. "The pirates are on the streets as if nothing was wrong and I say that Figueroa Agosto had more copyright than we do, because his porn video was picked up by the authorities," he commented. He complained that the prosecutors office and the Police confiscated the video from sellers, but not theirs. "Why don't they go pick up the video of La Soga?" he asked.
Here is the head of the anticorruption department speaking about the willingness of the government to prosecute the real criminals here:
"But the big guys, no," he says. He says that the big cases are filed, or declared absolved or the government withdraws the accusation. He mentioned the PEME case with RD$2.4 billion that ended in absolution and withdrawal of the accusation. Or the case of the construction of the electric highway using sovereign bonds for RD$2.02 billion. Or the RD$1.8 billion Plan Renove case, in which the main players were absolved.
He says that in 13 of 22 cases presented by the DPCA have been filed, absolved or the accusation withdrawn. He said that in the past 10 years, the courts have only issued sentences in four cases, and partially in two.
He mentioned the cases of Baninter and Mercantil banks where the accused were sentenced, but that nevertheless there was not a judicial process against the bankers by depositors
I think I saw some articles that Lie-onel said starting from yr 2011 or 2012 , there will be no more block out for the power in DR.... (sorry, I can not where I saw that kind saying..... can someone help to refresh this saying?)
why people steal electricity? Because they are learning everyday from the Government., DR government is very good at stealing, corruptions, default payment, .....etc. ( not for everyone, but quite a lot though). So, how could you blame those poor people by stealing electricity?
If the government desires to end the fraud then it must offer incentives to the public to turn in offenders and make the punishment for stealing power so harsh that one dare not steal.
" The floggings will continue until morale improves "
They couldn't care less. They are getting what they want and what they need and that's all that matters to them.
"The official said to meet that challenge the IDB has been working for 18 months with the Government in strategic plans to improve the electrical system"....I don't need 18 months to tell everyone that the dominican republic is a pipe dream and that morals don't exist and that 90% of gov officials have a 5th grade education and that ONE DAY AT BAND CAMP,..... I PUT MY FLUTE IN YOUR BOX.......
k
k
-Drugs-Immigrations and Blackouts.-
The DR government should declare the following -Constitution Amendments-
-Amendment #1- legalizes and makes lawful marihuana and all illegal drugs entering the country. Free drugs for everyone- from 19th years and older.
-Amendment #2- legalize/opened world border and free immigration for everybody- not only to Haitians but the entire world.
-Amendment #3- declare unconstitutional Blackouts and legalize tapping and stealing energy from Electric Poles - free energy for everybody in the country.
Together these Amendments will solve all the problems in DR.
Many times I have told of how we have apartments with legal meters that never get bills, or how we have begged for well over a year to have meters installed in other apartments.
The problem about complaining is that they will try and back-date charges for residents who have long since left
"[R]omer has come up a grand scheme for lifting Africa-[read Haiti] and Asia-[read DR] out of poverty. What they need to do, he argues, is give up a big chunk of their land to a rich country. Policy experts from Washington can take over [Haiti], and invite along GM and Microsoft and Gap to come and set up factories. Poor countries give up their sovereignty in return for the promise of greater prosperity.
His big example is Hong Kong. At the end of the first opium war in 1842, the Chinese were marched on board a British warship anchored off Nanjing and forced to sign Hong Kong away to Queen Victoria. Over the next 150 years, the little island turned into Asia's number one capitalist success story. It was an example that Deng Xiaoping ended up copying on the mainland, in coastal provinces such as Guangdong – to explosive economic effect.
China's loss of Hong Kong should not be seen as a national humiliation or great international injustice, Romer has written, but "an intervention" which has "done more to reduce world poverty than all the world's official aid programmes of the 20th century combined — and at a fraction of the cost". What the world needs, the economist argues, is not one but 100 Hong Kongs."
Will Haiti and DR have worse outcomes than those they have historically achieved? I say give the good professor his real life test case and see if his theory is correct.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HEY THOSE ARE MY JUMPER CABLES.....