Santo Domingo.- The number of deaths form Tropical Storm Olga rose to 25, according to the Emergencies Operations Center (COE). Twenty of the victims were from Santiago, three from Mao, one from Constanza and another from Moca.
The COE director Jose Manuel Méndez said despite improved weather conditions in many zones, 30 provinces continue under red alert, weak precipitations are forecast for most of the regions today.
The number of evacuees rose to 41,840, with 5,990 of those in government shelters and the number of houses damaged also rose as of last night, to a total of 8,368.
The COE director said four bridges, highways, irrigation channels and 23 dams and aqueducts were damaged, whereas 136 towns are still cut off.
The draining of the major dams also continued yesterday, as Sabana Yegua, in Azua, released 300 cubic meters per second and also Tavera, in Santiago, whose drainage on Tuesday sparked the North Yaque river to swell and the flood many parts of that city, and Hatillo and Valdesia are also being emptied.
Written by: josean, 14 Dec 2007 9:29 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Why do you state it as the "Final Tally?" Rather it should read the latest count by the PLD fabricators of facts. This president and his inept cabinet should be charged criminally for the killing of these innocent people as well as those that died due to their mismanagement of NOEL.
These are supposed to be the superior, super smart, know it all, modern, sophisticated, highly educated, we know better than you, what is best for you, crowd.
What they have turned out to be are idiot improvisers and nincompoops. An international human rights organization should charge them at The Hauge!
Written by: drtampa, 14 Dec 2007 10:48 AM
From: United States
This is taken from DR1. It is quite an indictment of the current government. Perhaps actions such as these will lead to this administrations defeat in May.
pyratt
Silver Join Date: Jan 2007
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In 23 years of providing rescue and recovery services to third world countries and migrant people all over the world...I've never been stone walled by a more corrupt and unfeeling government.
Donated supplies from TS NOEL disappeared before ever making it to the barrios and campos. Money donated from other countries was STOLEN by the very DR governmental moochers who extended their hands like the poor in the streets of the DR. They gave the hungry........ rice and oatmeal, but no fresh water or a means to cook it.
And now, they lie again.....claiming to have warned the people.
Serious questions were asked of General Luna after TS Noel. He walked away from the microphone
From: United States
to messrs drtampa and josean, i feel your pain, and i understand your anger. however, at times like these you are better off settling down behind a warm cup of chocolate beverage and letting your blood pressure subside. as my deceased mother used to say; YOU CANT TEACH A PIG TO SING. when you are confronted by a situation as repetitively hopeless as this is, letting it get to you will only result in hypertension. all these guys are useless drones, ignoramuses, fit for drinking rum and little else. they cant do better, because they dont know better; a goodly number of them cannot recognise their own names on a paper napkin! the only thing they have done with extreme profiency is to create a docile and unquestioning population, who accept anything they are told. NONE, I REPEAT ,NONE,of these guys could get a job catching dogs in a modern society. in the united states, some of these so- called generals would be cleaning
car windshields or collecting bottles and cans for a living!
Written by: BLANCO, 14 Dec 2007 1:34 PM
From: Dominican Republic
seems like dreadlocks has cleaned the windshield and seen it as it is.DISGUSTING AS IT IS...BUT TRUE
Written by: WilsoD, 14 Dec 2007 1:42 PM
From: United States, Lawrence, MA
I most say, it's very hard to read all these comments and articles, but a lot worse is to believe that people that should be in jail will not be punished. I remember in 1998 when huracan George San Juan flood and hundreds of people parished and noone was blame or punished by the Government. What make us think they're do that now if the same pleople are in position.
I was talking with my Dad and he told me that someone that live in Santiago told him that there wasn't that much rain, as why the dams would take aproximately 1 million gallon of water per second.
And an other thing that really makes me sad is that nothing will be done unless someone from the outside try to do so, because from the police Station to the Court they're all from the same political Party. my suggection, we all should do anything we can to bring peace and aid to our people and maybe more.
And for more information if Someone wants to contact and do something there is my info: DeloSantos@Aol.com.
Written by: Sumai, 14 Dec 2007 5:32 PM
From: Dominican Republic
What is wrong with you Josean are you PRD? As far as I'm concerned I don't know where you get your information from. President Leonel has been an excellent president to our country. Do you think your comments are helping our people. Had the Dam collapsed the damage would have been more intense than it was. Sometimes as Dominicans we don't listen and when these people were warned to leave they didn't. I still have family missing but what can we do these people think they can't leave there homes. Stop being so negative and see the good in this president. Or would you like to see another four years with Hipolito Mejia who really bought down the country.
From: United States
actually, Sumai, i am yet to make up my mind as to whether or not President Leonel, as you call him, has been a good president or an average president, or a bad president. please help me make up my mind. give me three things he has done in the time of his presidency that makes you say he has been good for the country. the METRO does not count!
Written by: Sumai, 15 Dec 2007 5:45 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Leonel is cleaning up the defecit that Hipolito left. The idiot borrowed so much money and left the republica broke. How does anyone expect someone to come and clean that debt off in such little time. Remember when he was first president he left the country free of debt. As educated as he is we should be proud of him when he represents our country in the United Nations. All Hipolito did was talk about the pichiri. Also, after he became our president the country was so beautiful and clean. I remember a time when he first became president that the food and everything overall was cheaper for all the poor. When Hipolito went into presidency everything sky rocketed. The poverty grew in percentages that were horrendous. People that decided to make a life over there came back to the United States because life out there was to expensive and unbearable. Understand that when you find things that are broken it takes time to fix. No one wil ever be like Balaguer but after that Leonel is
From: United States
actually, Sumai, the major debacle of the Hipolito government wasnt so much the borrowing, but the crash of Bancredito, which caused the central bank to decapitalise. and no, Leonel never left the country free or debt; i have no idea where you get such data from. may i remind you that it is quite ironic that Leonel is such an educated man, yet under his presidency international education indices worsen every year; even in 2007 his government committed 1.2% of GDP to public education, when the caribbean and latin american average is 4.35%. i am not against Leonel, and i wish him well, but until he can offer an excuse for rammind the METRO down the throat of the country, i will continue to question his judgement, and therefore his preparedness, to run a country. the METRO will go down in history as one of the worst errors of judgement by a government, not only in the DR, but in the entire world!
Written by: BLANCO, 15 Dec 2007 11:32 AM
From: Dominican Republic
The METRO....SANTO DOMINGO'S VERSION OF THE BIG DIG. OR MAYBE THE LARGEST SEWER PROJECT IN THE CARIBBEAN
Written by: kiki012, 15 Dec 2007 4:43 PM
From: United States Virgin Islands, PATERSON
THAT'S NOT RIHGT PEOPLE R DIEING FROM ALL OVER THE WOURLD SO I JUST GUESS IT'S A PART OF LIFE.DON'T U THINK IT'S A PART OF LIFE,WELL IF U DON'T THAT'S YOUR FAULT BECAUSE IT'S WHAT GOD DOES AND HE KNOWS WHAT 'S HE'S DOING , DONN'T YOU THINK THAT???WEEL THAT'S WHAT I SAY AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK SO WHO EVEER DON'T BELIVE IN GO ISN'T DUMB THEY JUST DON'T BELIVE IN HIM!!
Written by: kiki012, 15 Dec 2007 4:46 PM
From: United States Virgin Islands, PATERSON
I FORGOT TO SAY THAT MY CUOSIN DIED TO SO THE PEOPLE THAT THERE FAMILY MEMBERS DIED IT'S OK BUT MY CUOSIN WAS ONLY 3 YEARS OLD, HE WAS TURNING 4 YAERS OLD ON DECEMBER THE 30 HE WAS BORN WITH AN ILLNESS THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY!!!
From: United States
to kiki012; i respect your belief in a divine providence, and your right to believe that these people died because God chose to take them. i also believe in the saying; GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES. which suggests to me that we have an obligation to protect ourselves by applying safety precautions. i refuse to get in a car and not fasten my seatbelt because of a belief that God will take me anyway. maybe he will, but i want to make it a little more difficult for him!
Written by: Sumai, 15 Dec 2007 10:41 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Well said dreadlocks God help's those that help themselves. I still think that your focasing on the Metro to much and not on what is really important. I could name other presidents that weren't good at all for the country. Trujillo, Boche, and Mejia for example. My point is lets focus on what's important which is our country's well being. If at any point we feel that we could do better then we should put up or shut up. Republica Domincana is the most beautiful place on the earth lets help it the most we can.
From: United States
Sumai, i will agree with you on one thing; the DR is the most beautiful place i have ever seen, and i dont think it is possible for any other country to better it. it also has the most wonderful human beings i have had the pleasure to meet. that having been said, the political directorate of EVERY regime you can name is among the worst the world has to offer. the fact that Trujillo and Mejia were laughable is beyond question. the jury is still out on Bosch, since he only lasted 7 months, i think. but do not delude youself; the current administration is no prize either. it is equally without vision, equally corrupt, conceptually antiquated and is headed nowhere. and you HAVE to focus on the Metro, because, among other egregiously bad decisions, it is the lasting symbol of parochialism and waste of public funds for political gain and personal aggrandisement. Leonel wants to go down in history as the guy who MODERNISED the DR; it is an ego trip thing, for which future generations
From: United States
will continue to pay. and if you know your country, you understand the main risk; if he loses the election, the PRD will not finish the project. they will divert the funding to the rural areas. there was no bi-partisan agreement on the project; Leonel shoved it through in a moment of dictatorship. the PRD will curtail the metro project to punish their big city opponents for being PLD supporters, and start something big in a rural district. Leonel knows how things work, and should have never took such a big gamble with so much money. to spend so much money on a project which benefits only a small portion of the populace is objectionable, given other more pressing needs, such as EDUCATION, which receives next to nothing from a man who himself is well educated, if only on paper!
Written by: josean, 16 Dec 2007 9:46 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
I thought they had given us "The Final Tally"!
"Olga toll up to 38 in Dominican Republic": unfortunately this Fernandez administration is not as quick to release the truth as they are to release the flood gates.
That fact is that with these pathological liars in charge it could be 380 and we will probably never no the truth.
From: United States
hey, Josean, it probably IS 380! and to all who say it is not the fault of the President, i say the following; he did not take the decision to open the gates, neither did he open the gates himself . the storm was not his fault either. but the fact that he has set himself up as Emperor, and not president, bears heavily upon the issue. due to the fact that he has created a political environment wherein he is the ultimate boss of all things, it is incumbent upon him to foster a climate wherein the best minds are applied to sensitive critical and security issues. bungling incompetents cannot be allowed to be in charge of dams simply because they are political adherents; that is a luxury we cannot afford to pay for with the lives of innocent people. he has to draw lines between partisanship and pragmatism. he must identify positions which lie outside the fronteirs of political affiliation, and fill those positions with people who know SOMETHING, not SOMEBODY! that is called modernisation.
Written by: Sumai, 16 Dec 2007 7:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Dreadlocks you have a great insight on many issues and i could respect you but sometimes it's like your torn. I don't know if you like the administration or you dislike it. The truth be told after Balaguer the next best thing has been Leonel. He may not be a savior but it's a very difficult job and we should respect anyone in the position to take that task on.
From: United States
Sumai, thank you for your generous words, and i respect you too. but the issue is not whether or not i like or dislike the administration. governance is not a popularity contest. and i cannot be asked to respect someone simply because he took on the difficult job of being president. nobody forced him to be the president; he could have stayed in the classroom, where he would probably have served a better purpose. he wanted to be president, for whatever reason, and therefore has to be prepared for the criticism which he is going to incur. saying that he has been the best thing after Balaguer means very little, because Hippo was the only other president, and a goat could not have done any worse than he did. we are fooled into believing that Leonel is a good president, because he is educated and cultured an does not embarass us in public. but he is not presidential material; his vision is limited, his initiatives questionable. he is better suited to be a king!!
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These are supposed to be the superior, super smart, know it all, modern, sophisticated, highly educated, we know better than you, what is best for you, crowd.
What they have turned out to be are idiot improvisers and nincompoops. An international human rights organization should charge them at The Hauge!
pyratt
Silver Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 207
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In 23 years of providing rescue and recovery services to third world countries and migrant people all over the world...I've never been stone walled by a more corrupt and unfeeling government.
Donated supplies from TS NOEL disappeared before ever making it to the barrios and campos. Money donated from other countries was STOLEN by the very DR governmental moochers who extended their hands like the poor in the streets of the DR. They gave the hungry........ rice and oatmeal, but no fresh water or a means to cook it.
And now, they lie again.....claiming to have warned the people.
Serious questions were asked of General Luna after TS Noel. He walked away from the microphone
car windshields or collecting bottles and cans for a living!
I was talking with my Dad and he told me that someone that live in Santiago told him that there wasn't that much rain, as why the dams would take aproximately 1 million gallon of water per second.
And an other thing that really makes me sad is that nothing will be done unless someone from the outside try to do so, because from the police Station to the Court they're all from the same political Party. my suggection, we all should do anything we can to bring peace and aid to our people and maybe more.
And for more information if Someone wants to contact and do something there is my info: DeloSantos@Aol.com.
"Olga toll up to 38 in Dominican Republic": unfortunately this Fernandez administration is not as quick to release the truth as they are to release the flood gates.
That fact is that with these pathological liars in charge it could be 380 and we will probably never no the truth.