Punta cana

Juan Dolio

Juan Dolio

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therein lies the rub, ladronaso. gentlemen such as Frank, with formidable intellectual skills, have very little place in the current society. the old habits are entrenched, and newcomers, with better mousetraps, are not welcome. 19th century methodologies still abound, and hamper progress. let me give you a simple example. in the area in which i live, a group of home robbers was laying waste to the area. they would remove window panes and access the interior of the apartments. the police caught two of them, and spent 3 days trying to look for " testigos". one would have thought that a simple fingerprint test would at least have gone some distance to establish that they had been in the apartments. the police took no photos, nor fingerprints, even though none of the perps had any ID. it is not difficult to bring in fresh minds to shore up an area such as law enforcement, but it remains the province of political maneouvering and nepotism. so, while Mr Dom and the other cheerleaders for selling off the country to druggies and moneylaunderers, (all the while characterising it as INVESTMENT,) count their wealth from real estate sales, the rest of the society stagnates, for want of innovative minds. we will have all the tall structures that Dom celebrates so robustly, all populated by wealthy outsiders. but, to some people it does not matter, as long as they are getting their commission on the sale of the units...the country be damned, i just bought a new Land Rover.

Dready never generalize, not everyone that buys at home in DR or in any part of the world is a moneylaunderer or a dealer of drugs, because let me tell you that DR is not the only country that is having this residential construction boom for retires, also Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama, new developments are sprouting all around in these countries as it is in DR. There are millions of baby boomers who want a second home in a warm place so that means money that we can get $$$ (Government equal to social work), jobs etc.

Something that you've consistently failed to realize is that, unlike other countries on the region, in the DR, the money invested on this sector doesn't trickle down to the rest of the economy, because if it did, unemployment charts wouldn't be at 17-19% as they're currently. In other words, informality would be the exception more than the rule for the dominican native, also there is the fact that the social safety net (that is the resources that the state devotes to social services) is close to zero, in short, the common citizen has to pay the taxes of Sweden while receiving the services of Nigeria, so to speak. So, while your precious investors live like kings on their precious ivory towers, the common dominican has either to make do as a chiripero, become a criminal or take the yola/machete to the States in order to survive.

Is true not every Dominican get benefits (directly) from this construction boom...

And I don’t have to explain to you why because you know the answer….

My uncle bought a local in one of the new malls under construction in front of multicentro (blue mall). He will need at least three employees (ooohhh more jobs, laurato if you are one of those who doesn’t have a job let me know so I can talk to him and when it is done you wont be one of those unemployed and you wont have to make do as a chiripero, become a criminal or take the yola/machete to the States in order to survive)

I'm surprised, I thought that he would gonna make do with haitian inmigrants, like the rest of the other SOB's of the sector.

Sorry, but my expertise is on the financial sector, where I'm being more than compensated for the value of my knowledge, unlike the underpaid, plantation style way of things that your pals favors so much.

Money from certain sources is preferably brought to certain countries where the law system is weak and corruption rife.
More and more I think that it's not desirable to live in such places.
Alas, who wants to live in a country where police is almost non-existing and mafia people, drug dealers and rich illiterates are your neighbours?

m'frog