This is going to make Josie Happy...

He can ride the Metro with Santa for Christmas...

Where is the Audit Saint Danilo?

Goody Goody

"The capital’s 2nd subway line ready by year’s end"

More "Continuar lo que esta bien!"

Just like completing El Bulevar de La Romana to connect La Autovía del Este with La Autovía del Coral, then Bulevar Turístico to Macao, and Macao-Miche Highway.

Benefits? Less than 2 hours Santo Domingo-Punta Cana-Macao, safer trip, less fuel consumed (saving the country from spending more dollars), boom to commerce, more options for Dominicans to enjoy their country...

puntacana-bavaro.com/index.php/noticias/item/816-hotel-sanctuary-cap-cana-presenta-nuevas-promociones-para-el-p%C3%BAblico-local

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Consejito para los PPHachunos: Pongan sus huevos para el '20, porque el '16 es también de Leonel y el PLD!!!

Stop whining, coge pa'lante y manos a la obra!

8-)

* Gracias Dios, tenemos a Leonel, a Danilo, y a Margarita *

DR ranks world leader in government wasteful spending

A legacy of the eight-year Fernandez government, the Dominican Republic has again scored badly on the World Economic Forum's report card. News commentator Juan Bolivar Diaz reports in Hoy that the DR was confirmed as the world leader in corruption, lack of reliability of police services and low quality of education.


* Gracias Dios, tenemos a Leonel, a Danilo, y a Margarita *

The report places the Dominican Republic 144th of 144 in favoritism in decisions by government officials and wastefulness of government spending, and 142nd in diversion of public funds. Other factors dragging the Dominican Republic down to such a low score on the World Economic Forum report card are the reliability of police services (143) and the business cost of crime and violence (127).

* Gracias Dios, tenemos a Leonel, a Danilo, y a Margarita *

We have so much for which to thank Leonel, Danilo, and Margarita

Senator Felix Bautista has sent a sheriff's order to the new print and online news magazine, La Lupa, demanding the retraction of a news story headlined "Two similar jails built with almost RD$900 million in difference" within five days.

The magazine also features a story on previous scandals in which Bautista, a close aide of former President Leonel Fernandez, has been involved over the years. The more recent story says that investigating the senator does not appear to be on President Danilo Medina's agenda.


We have so much for which to thank Leonel, Danilo, and Margarita

We already have a few things to thank Danilo for, I don't know about the other two in your list. Everyday Danilo makes me dislike Leonel more and more, and I was one of those Come Solos.

I don't get it. Leonel was the rave of town, everyone around the world praised him for a job well done and soon became the media darling of the international community, with all kinds of positive press written about him. Now suddenly, he is the bad guy, the worse and the ugly. What gives ?

Were people kissing up to him while he was in power and now that he stepped down his dirty laundry is being aired out in public? Yes politics is a dirty business.

@Danilo-"..and I was one of those Come Solos."

Really............?

Now that is interesting.......were you left holding the "bottle" after drinking the last drop?

Very simply put LF was the captain of a sinking ship. To hide the fact the boat was sinking and everyone on the boat was going to drown he and his crewmen only told everyone about the great buffets and shows.

He then had himself and a few of the higher ranking crew rescued by helicopter leaving the others to fend for themselves.

Written by: juanb, 12 Sep 2012 2:15 PM
From: Dominican Republic

Very simply put LF was the captain of a sinking ship.

LMAO

HE SUNK THE SHIP

"HE SUNK THE SHIP"


Now your talking!

Good! hope to see it done soon!

Our citizens need it more everyday!

Where is the trade off? still the same number of “ motoconchos”, makeshifts taxi-cabs, traffic jams/congestions all over the city and pollution. So, nothing has changed just another wasteful, unnecessary project that cost the Dominican a “truck load” of money (US Dollars); and made a selected pack of rats millionaires.

PS: TRES PASITOS PA'LAS RATAS!

Danilo has it easy compared to what Leonel was tasked after taking over the worst Presidente in the history of the Dominican Rep.

Leonel's mission was to bring the country back from abysm that the Mamagrono Hipolito Ignoramus Mejia pushed it in. Just think about this, the RESERVE ACCOUNTS were left, not in ZERO, but LESS THAN ZERO, with a NEGATIVE BALANCE, the RESERVE ACCOUNTS!!!!

So, just imagine the "regular" accounts!

So, in the other words, Leonel pitched on the top of the inning, now Danilo is in the batter's box...

CONSEJO pa' los PPHachunos: Pongan sus huevos para el '20, porque el '16 es también de Leonel y el PLD!!!

Stop whining, coge pa'lante y manos a la obra!

8-)

* Gracias Dios, tenemos a Leonel, a Danilo, y a Margarita

"Danilo has it easy compared to what Leonel was tasked after taking over the worst Presidente in the history of the Dominican Rep."


Not according to this EDITORIAL Manito:


"The Government called on the IMF to help to manage the economy, taking into account the harmful elements that they the new authorities found after one of THE LARGER FISCAL DEFICITS the Dominican Republic has had IN ITS HISTORY"


"Danilo Medina, a man who manages the silence"


We are negotiating an agreement with the IMF, but the country has not received the data what is the reality of public finances, because the Government in this regard has been silent.

A group from the International Monetary Fund is in the country, studying the possibility of signing an agreement with the Dominican Republic.

continued:

The Government called on the IMF to help to manage the economy, taking into account the harmful elements that they the new authorities found after one of THE LARGER FISCAL DEFICITS the Dominican Republic has had IN ITS HISTORY

The Central Bank has alleges that data provided by the Economist Yvan Rodriguez to Acento.com.do are false with regard to issuance of credits without support, to finance part of the fiscal deficit, and argues that the monetary emission is at normal levels.

If this so, this is good and the country should be made aware that there is no need to even discuss or approve a new tax reform to increase the income of the Government
.
Although the Central Bank spoke of stability of prices, macroeconomic control, and even with the International Monetary Fund in the country, the Government has said almost nothing of the financial reality that it found when it assumed control of the State on 16 August.

continued:

We are negotiating an agreement with the IMF, but the country has not received the data on what is the reality of public finances, because the Government in this regard has been silent.

President Danilo Medina, it seems likes the long periods of silence, to which he became accustomed when he was being chased and besieged by followers of Leonel Fernandez.

We must assume that Medina thinks that also in the economic area he could get good results staying silent."

acento.com.do/index.php/news/21376/56/Danilo-Medina-un-hombre-que-administra-el-silencio.html

Editorial from CACAcento.com?

Jajajaja......

By the way, do us a favor, just publish the link, not the entire text. Not fair to DT readers.... Too many lines to scroll down. So, just the LINKS!

Autovía Coral da sus frutos
bavarodigital.blogspot.com/2012/09/autovia-coral-da-sus-frutos.html
puntacana-bavaro.com/index.php/noticias/item/816-hotel-sanctuary-cap-cana-presenta-nuevas-promociones-para-el-p%C3%BAblico-local
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Consejito para los PPHachunos: Pongan sus huevos para el '20, porque el '16 es también de Leonel PLD!!!

Stop whining, coge pa'lante y manos a la obra!

8-)

* Gracias Dios, tenemos a Leonel, a Danilo, y a Margarita *

Lots of good news from Danilo in just two days:

"The 6 deputy ministers at the Ministry of Tourism
The Medina administration has been downsizing government and instead of dozens of deputy ministers, a common feature of previous administrations, it has appointed just six."

"President Danilo Medina has announced the creation of a new National Health Plan for the DR"

"President Danilo Medina has officially launched his new Literacy Plan, declaring that education is a basic right for the whole population."

along with this one, it's something he needs to finish

Manito as a public service I translate the articles for those who are not fluent in reading Spanish, so I'm sure they don't mind scrolling down a little bit and I hope you're not using that as a subterfuge to try to limit the People's right to know!

Danilo,

Any word on when Saint Danilo will open the first investigation into the corruption allegations of the former president's administration?

One URL -> translate.google.com


Consejito para los PPHachunos: Pongan sus huevos para el '20, porque el '16 es también de Leonel PLD!!!

Stop whining, coge pa'lante y manos a la obra!

8-)

* Gracias Dios, tenemos a Leonel, a Danilo, y a Margarita *

Hopefully not soon, I want him to live to get his plans underway. Margarita can easily poison him if he starts messing with her man. So lets revisit Leonel's corruption in a year or two.

You mean, Hopefully never, don't you?

Fantastic! I look forward to riding both lines while reading excerpts from the book, “A tale of two cities” by Charles Dickens.
The opening line drones out: “It was the best of times it was the worst of times”. What it means to me is that we’re at the verge of great changes in how we manage our affairs of government… Right now, we may be writing a new page in the history of our long-suffering nation. It may be the end of an era of disorder and wide-ranging corruption, and the beginning of a time of economic, political, and social stability. ..The opening of our 2nd metro line and Medina’s course of action, heralds good times ahead!

I hope you are right, Ron

I'm an optimist, but I have to admit the pessimists have a stronger case.

Successful completion of the 2nd line is not the end of the story, it is only part of the beginning. There will need to be many more lines, plus an integrated surface line to Santiago, before the country reaps the substantial rewards of a world-class rail system.

Lets hope that Groucho can keep up with his reforms and complete the task before being "dealt with" by the establishment. They are not going to go quietly, they have too much to lose.

Meanwhile, bridges are falling down. Lil' towns are being cut off so the uneducated people can't reach lil' NY to have a bite of that apple.

williom ,

The rest of the country where the overwhelming majority of dominicans live does not matter ALL resources are to be invested in METROLANDIA!

We are NOT pessimists. We just don't wanna wait for the (so-called positive) effect of some useless metro in the far future while the entire population desperately needs simple basic necessities for survival -IMMEDIATELY. For starters, the constitutionally mandated education should've come to them years ago in the form of: Traditional school, libraries, TV/radio messages/ads, pamphlets, brochures, posters, billboards...

Imagine the TRUE positive effect that education alone would set on the population.

There should've been plenty of money for many other REAL priorities. Instead, a handful of crooks came up with some schemes to steal and have an entourage of thieves to protect them. As a result, the country gets neglected, and you get desperate young thieves creating serious problems for everybody, especially tourists.
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Calling an audit and putting the government that came up with that useless metro in jail is what we are pessimistic about.

Calling an audit and putting the government that came up with that useless metro in jail is what we are pessimistic about.

Concur 100%.

"Successful completion of the 2nd line is not the end of the story, it is only part of the beginning. There will need to be many more lines,"

But how can a city like Santo Domingo afford it. What is needed is a complementary bus system which feeds into the metro and serves the more remote areas. You can then start banning publics etc Even with the metro little thought seems to have been given to pedestrian routes from and to the stations. The only way to get to the new Malls would appear to be by car.
Any though also be given about land use planning. Dealing with public transport is more than just building a lot of expensive underground lines.

A country that builds a METRO at the expense of 900 children ( just to mention one case since there are 100's of thousands) without a school since 2007, that have to improvise a class room in carport and under canopies, can’t be called anything else but a Failed State.

Lie-onel Fernandez and at minimum the Political Committee of the PLD, if not all the Senators and Deputies of ANY party that voted for the METRO, should be tried at the Hague for Human Rights violations.

“Hundreds of children receive classes under tarps and canopies"

Published by Andrea Ramos on September 13, 2012

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic- Residents in the areas of Los Corales and La Caña of the Admiral, Santo Domingo Este, this Thursday demanded from the education authorities the construction of a school stating that about 900 children receive teaching in precarious conditions.

continued:

They complained they are obliged to use as educational centers space outdoors, under canvas, in shelters and in borrowed premises.

This supposedly because the Santa Cruz school authorities do not allow students to come to campus, additionally they seized the desks and other immovable property belonging to The Corales- La Caña community school, which was installed in 2007 with the resources of residents in these areas.

The students from these communities receiving instruction on the private campus of Colegio Santa Cruz, but since education authorities allegedly failed to uphold an agreement with the owners of the private school; the children were removed from there.

Residents in these sectors expect the Ministry of Education to give response to their claims, since these children could lose the school year due to conditions in which they are being taught.

continued:

See the video for yourself at:

noticiassin.com/2012/09/cientos-de-ninos-reciben-docencia-en-marquesinas-y-bajo-lonas/

No sane person would deny that the state of education in the country is appalling. However the Metro is not the cause. Much more money is being rorted from he system by corruption in government and the military, with absolutely nothing to show for it. Also for the vast majority of Dominican voters, education is not a priority.

"Also for the vast majority of Dominican voters, education is not a priority."

For that matter NEITHER is the METRO a PRIORITY for the vast majority of Dominicans!

Like I said, Dominicans can make education a priority if the government shows some interest and makes it a priority -especially by pushing messages to Billboards, Radio/TV ads... about keeping the country clean, reducing noise, reading books... And there would be major changes in their attitude.

All the Dominicans see are crooks in power with (inbred entitlement mentality -gmiller's quote). Dominicans hope to become successful crooks themselves and it all becomes a vicious cycle with no end in sight.

With some form of education (now matter how small) would help tremendously towards a brighter future that the metro will never provide no matter how much money the moronic government borrows and pours into it.

NATIONAL crisis like healthcare, infrastructure, security... have been neglected at the expense of a metro, malls, overpasses, a state of the art parking lot that were built primarily to steal money, and ironically out of education money that Dominicans desperately need.

Willion, You and quite a few other posters in this forum fail to realize that infrastructure is vital to the advancement of our nation which hastens the welfare of our people.
Overpasses, roads and even parking lots are absolute necessities to the prospering of our nation. Without these, the state of our well-being would be much worse, something resembling the likes of Haiti.
We must modernize if we're to prosper. To do so, takes money , lots of it. There's no getting around it! You and other detractors here may scream all you want but this Metro, when it's all completed and done with, will serve us well. It will facilitate how we get around and will help promote business in a direct, effective way. All this spells prosperity..... Many of you can't see the forest for the trees!, Que Hostia!

EDUCATION is the LOCOMOTIVE of society not METROS, why can’t the PURPLE LOCO-Viejos Understand that simple fact of life! ¡Que "PUÑETA"!

Ron, I am very compassionate about this issue. And, I feel like I am not adding much to it. Yet, let me re-re-re-restate the fact SD is NOT DR. What about the rest of the country? The country has serious problems on ALL levels. And all levels are totally ignored.

Why does UASD need a State of the Art Parking lot while its own students are not getting proper education and the kids, a few miles away, are under Mango trees? As the matter of fact, the kids in the entire country are not being helped at all while you have a metro in that part of Santo Domingo that takes people to some underpaid work, to some low-grade schools, to window-shop in some beautiful malls.

National healthcare - bad; national roads, bridges - very bad; national education - sad; corruption - lucrative business...

All we, the detractors, are saying is that: A homeless family borrowed $100,000 just to buy a blinging necklace for their 1 year-old's birthday. To us, that doesn't make any sense at all.

Williom, I will admit to this Metro project being built at a huge cost and without much planning. If Leonel had put as much emphasis into education as he did trying to make SD look like a mini “Nueva Yol”, most likely, our educational level would have been much more advanced…Something like what Cuba looks like today. To wit: total literacy but very little infrastructural improvements. If not for the European nations' desire to preserve old Havana, most of those beautiful colonial buildings would have collapsed by now! Fidel hasn’t done much in the way of modernizing the country.
Anyway, I won’t dispute your sensible arguments in that regard, and concede that much money was misdirected into something the people did not want or felt wasn’t needed at the time……BUT, regardless of Leonel’s motives, (and It's obvious he built it to make himself look good), It is done and over with!
We’re too far into the second line to stop now. It must be concluded. .If no more lines....cont.

If no more lines were constructed, I’d be ok with that. But, if we’re to emerge as an eventual first-world nation, the further construction of infrastructure MUST continue.
Perhaps trolleys in the bigger cities, (Santiago, La Vega, San Francisco, etc.), and railways throughout the country. ..All this takes tons of money and there will always be people against it, who think it best invested in other things. No getting away from that!
But one little detail escapes many here who can’t think beyond that what they see, and that is the fact that DR spends over 12.000.000 million dollars PER DAY in buying petroleum to mostly power cars and trucks! .. If we’re to survive the end of oil, we must adquire electricity-powered vehicles and trains. And this has to be done today!.. Just think what can be done with 12 million X 365 days = 4.380.000.000….each and every year of oil NOT consumed..!!! ..What could we possibly do with all that money??

(( If we’re to survive the end of oil... ))

I don't want to think of what if. The moves are too luxurious for a third world country -full of corruption. The problems are before us now. I'd like something done yesterday -not wasting money on looking-good projects that bare no immediate fruits.

Anyway, it's done. At least, can the current government make all the national crisis a bit bearable and manageable?

No, I am not counting on it. Fixing problems requires the elimination of corruption. Can't fix corruption with corruption. Or, all corruption officers and projects managers would go to jail. So, it's a lot easier to deal with marginal feel-good projects than to deal with attacking the real issues: Corruption.

I understand you perfectly. But, prevailing corruption derails all hope for a brighter future.

Education is the sure way to slowly get out of this mess. Government understands that. That's why Education is always the first to be crippled.

"Education is the sure way to slowly get out of this mess. Government understands that. That's why Education is always the first to be crippled."

If you think education alone will “get us out of this mess”, and eliminate corruption, you’re in for a big disappointment. One only needs looking into Cuba’s government leadership, to see the obvious. In spite of their high educational standards, they are still corrupt to the core!
Theirs is a one-party system which determines your way of life, standard of living, and means by which you earn your keep. Being an elite member, will garner favors, bribes, and all the perks that go along with a government post.-- Pretty much like the DR.

The same goes for North Korea. Lots of schools and dedicated people with many skills, but, most people are literally starving! Most, except the ones in government.

... continued.

......So, no, Williom. It’s not as easy as that. It takes a number of divergent factors and dedicated people to bring about a nation’s full potential-- and what the DR is certainly capable of-- in terms of national prosperity and personal growth.

Education alone is a start, but not the cure-all.

Rhetorical Nonsense with 1950’s Cold War BS!

OK then- A total drastic change in the government is mandatory.

If not education -How about REVOLUTION, then education?

The ENTIRE island is a mess. It's in the hands of a few controlling freaks. You are fortunate enough the East is not as bad as the West. All it may take is one uninvited natural disaster, and...

Anyway, these kids need some hope. It hurts that some of you still cannot see that a metro, malls... all in one Little NY Location actually provide none.

williom,

I have come to the conclusion that some of the METRO apologists are not just PURPLE Party Hacks but some could actually be direct financial beneficiaries of the non-priority boondoggle and that is why the defend it so passionately no matter how irrational they appear in their rhetoric!

Josean-

Because of you and some few others, I personally went to DR for the first time ever earlier this year and rode the metro. The next day, I visited the Blue Mall where I was willing to buy a pair of comfortable sneakers. And the price was US$110. Similar shoes probably cost US$70 top in the States. Not many locals can afford to shop there, and I did not see why a tourist would want to buy much other than some pieces of gums. Then, my friends took me to some poor neighborhood. What a contrast!

It has all been planned.

Beautiful and shiny objects always have that effect on people no matter how irrational they appear in their rhetoric.

What a cause! I still don't know how you do it.

“Beautiful and shiny objects always have that effect on people no matter how irrational they appear in their rhetoric.”

You all seem fixated on the Metro and Blue mall. You all keep bringing up the same argument as if that’s the one and only reason for the dire state of our schools. Well, it isn't! Your arguments lack substance and logic. You and friends are not seeing the whole picture, just a few pixels and limited in scope because of your inability to take in the full spectrum of colors.
Contrary to what seems valid and obvious to you, the real culprit here isn't what the govt. spends on infrastructure. It is the mismanagement of its revenue. I don’t hear you complaining about the wasteful military expenditure, or the redundant diplomatic foreign posts, as far off as Kazakhstan! Or the USD$4.380.000.000 ; that’s FOUR BILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLION dollars, each and every year that the DR spends purchasing foreign oil.!!
Continued..

....When you add these three wasteful expenditures, plus all other extravagant salaries for do-nothing botellas, it’s no wonder there isn’t much left for health, education, and the welfare of our people!
If we were to reduce and gradually eliminate these burdens, we’d have more than enough to cover all your interests plus mine and still have plenty left to spend modernizing Haiti. Open your mind and understand. Things are not always what they seem to be.

I won't repeat myself. If you do not see the logic in my argument, then so be it. I've had enough.

Absolutely, Ron, I agree.

A 1,000,000,000 Billion Dollars spent for 14 kms and we are the ones that have to "Open Our Minds" williom!

^Que Cojones!

Ron, you also missed the part when I was also fixated on CORRUPTION. The Metro is naturally into it as it is the subject of this article.

I also said there are National Crisis on all fronts. They are all neglected and EDUCATION has been ILLEGALLY purged for a good reason -to make it easy to steal in all levels. Audit it all, and see who must go to jail.

I've been here long enough to know that we've all been repeating ourselves. And, it's very obvious TO ME to see why SD seems to be the only city in the DR.

Ha, here we go again!

OK, I understand. I am just leaving it at that.

josean, my mind is shot. I give up too.

“Absolutely, Ron, I agree.”

Thank you, Roy. Glad to know you’re one of the few, (I, fervently think), who understands logic and reasoning. Most here are too primal and vision-impaired to absorb/assimilate the underlying principles of money matters and the implementation of good/sound investing in a comprehensive approach to serve the nation at its best.
I will now refrain from contesting arguments with the not-learned, so as to set aside more time to gain knowledge from those who understand/speak, the English language coherently. It serves of no benefit to try to argue points with children, not of my own.

I do not "understand/speak, the English language coherently". But, I understand enough to see that you'd rather see these African kids' arms got cut off than to miss out on dem shiny diamonds.

"Good sound investing in a comprehensive approach to serve the nation"

Williom,

Now "the nation" is composed of 14 kilometers of rail covering a few neighborhoods in the capital!

And he claims to be the "Adult;" what Chutzpah!

Thanks for showing it to me josean. I coherently did not understand that. Please!

Well, OK, There’s an infestation of apes here, with significant learning difficulties and impaired social skills. Yeah, that’s you!
With animals like ya’ll, it’s no wonder DR can’t get ahead. Youse are the typical Dominican ignorant thrash that not only retard my nation’s achievements, but also contribute, with your relentless negativity, to the detriment of progress of all our people!.. You’re all scum... Someday, you’ll pay!!

Traicioneros de la Patria!!....Malditos!...Chupa guevos!

Where is the evidence to show that had the government not started building the Metro, they would have spent it on education?

The argument for a Metro in Santo Domingo is stronger than for most other capital cities, given the high proportion of the population that live there, the lack good roads, total absence of freeways, the belligerence of the bus companies, the un-roadworthy state of most Dominican vehicles and bikes, and the appalling way Dominicans drive and ride.

Hidalgo revealed the figure after a meeting with Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Amarilis Herrera, and pledged to seek a solution to the lack of supplies and overcrowding in public hospitals, as reported by the doctors. (End of quote).

Team, we cannot stop progress however, there has to be an order of priorities, based on the existing needs of the people/country. Please read the above excertp that was published yesterday here in DT regarding the current state of the Health Care ministry (hospitals) in the DR. I travel back and forth to the DR and I have not NOTICED any improvement in any of the areas regarding urban traffic/ commute; it is still the same polluted, congested mess. The number of “motoconchos” and taxi cabs keeps increasing at an alarming rate. Follow by the continued pressure from the un-ruling, out of control, union leaders (sindicatos) to “inject” more buses into the already over-crowded, streets of the City (capital).

Roy,

The problem is that the capital is but a small part if the entire nation and the METRO only covers a small part of the capital.

The largest infrastructure project in the history of the Dominican Republic, 1,000,000,000 dollars to service only a few neighborhoods in the capital. Juxtaposed to all the real national priorities this is the biggest, stupidest boondoggle in Dominican History

Now the METRO MANIAC from Maryland equates non-support for this unnecessary useless financial albatross as being Apes. Its his my way or the highway attitude that leads him to the vulgar refuge of all scoundrels questioning ones patriotism.

His childish tantrum of name calling and insults is what really shows the world how backward we continue to be with these Neo-Trujillista expressions of un-democratic incoherent emotionalism and stupid vile. Yet he has the audacity to say that we who oppose the wasteful spending of our limited resources are animals!

I am going to be “the Devil’s advocate” regarding the prices in some of the newly, luxurious mall in the SD. The prices are “reasonable” if you take into account the following facts: Transportation of the goods, taxes (US), storage, more taxes in DR, a shit load of custom taxes in DR, and unnecessary “stamps”. You have to bribe somebody after you had already paid all required contributions; local transportation to your business and marketing/advertisement and finally, leasing fees and local employees wages…..this is why they have to charge more. (Facts we own one small sport store in SD).
PS: Further, you will have to lower the prices of the goods if you cannot sell them within the first 90-120 days.

"Where is the evidence to show that had the government not started building the Metro, they would have spent it on education?"

.......Or housing, or health. There is none, Roy. I couldn't begin to contemplate/consider what,(given Leonel's screwy policies), it could have been done with it, or where it would have ended up. Maybe Leo and cohorts would have been that much richer today! Who knows!
In the meantime, the Capital would have been that much more chaotic and polluted. I hate to speculate on a notion that have no way of evidencing itself. It's just too hard to do. No one here can say for sure what, if anything positive, would have resulted from the investment of all this money with any lasting benefit for most of us... In retrospect, it's simply impossible to predict.

The metro is good for Santo Domingo the most importante city in the country and yes it does benefit all.....educación ?? Just look at what Chicago produces with Lots of educación funds yes morons like josean

Please give an example of how the USELESS METRO benefits ALL?

One thing's for sure, though. The animals in this forum would've had a lot less fodder to chew on, had the Metro not been built.
Not having to argue with Morons would have been a very good thing, indeed!

It is sad to see people TRYING TO JUSTIFY THE UNJUSTIFIABLE and defending unabated Graft and Corruption.

"The critical value of 150% determines which countries would fall under the initiative of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC),……”This indicator in the Dominican Republic is 656%, 4.38 times higher than critical, so we qualify as a country in the HIPC", says the document forwarded to Acento.com.do.”

How much does the Glorious USELESS METRO contribute for our Financial Crisis!

This is a cult indeed. Lie-onel has done a pretty good job messing up his followers' brains. He should build himself a "Faro a Lie-onel" for them to worship him. This time, its lights should be left on every night --keeping SD in total darkness like he has done to the entire country. Oh, please!

"This is a cult indeed."

You are so right!

"This time, its lights should be left on every night --keeping SD in total darkness like he has done to the entire country."

Outstanding williom, OUTSTANDING!

Read this and then Say with a Straight Face the USELESS METRO was priority:


"Almost half of Santo Domingo's water is lost"

The 382,000,000 gallons of water pumped into the Santo Domingo Water and Sewer Corporation's water system are never enough to provide the huge city with sufficient water.

The reason is incredibly simple: between 45% and 50% is either lost in leaks or wasted by customers, CAASD director Alejandro Montas told reporters from Diario Libre.

He said that on 13 September the system "produced" 383.58 million gallons of water, and 148 million went to the central level, 121 million went to the east, 52 million to the southwest and 23 million went to the north. Montas said that of those amounts, some 172 million gallons were lost.

This means that five billion gallons a month are lost when the aqueduct is functioning properly and this would average 60 billion gallons a year in losses.

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This situation is what keeps water from reaching everyone, and there is little than can be done, although there are some projects that may help the situation.

DR1

This demonstrates the need for Both EDUCATION to prevent citizens from wasting water and investment in TRUE Priority needed infrastructure!

Money is not necessarilly the most importante aspect of educación .....josean is a product of Chicagos school programs ....very expensive and he is still a moron....I prefer the Metro

"Read this and then Say with a Straight Face the USELESS METRO was priority:"

Well except for dreamkiller!

Cafta and trade are the future.....educación of course as we go along.....
josean yours in particular

If you're a product of EDUCATION we may have to give it a second thought!

Thought josean ,you ve never had an original one....now go take your nappy

You better take you Metamucil its beginning to backup into what's left of your meager brain!