Fernandez knew it was coming and he has a tight lip about this on his USA tour.

Humbhrey Bogart Scene of CASABLANCA (dominican corruption)

YANKEE's .... Mr. President (LF) you have to do something, about corruption.
LF ...... This country is closed until further notice.
DR CONGRESS. .. How can you close us down on what grounds.
Leonel.... I am shocked, shocked, to find out, that there is corruption in this country.
Diandino...... Mr. President here is your 10% of the contracts on the new train.
LF.... Oh yes, thank you.

Good point... Why didn't LF ask for money to stop corruption, may be he would not need so much oil.

Because Dominicans believe corruption is good, so much so, they are completely transparent about it. And wear the title as a badge of honor.

Where are the defenders of the Superman in Purple Leotards!

I too am shocked yes shocked

Congratulations to Leonel Fernadez and his cronies.

we outscore Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. i knew those little island got nothing on D.R baby!!!! we rule el caribe baby!!!!

trinitario, the table means that the DR scores worse than the countries named in the article. when a country is no 72, and you are 103, that is nothing to celebrate. the smaller number is better, get it?

what Jamaica corrupt? I am shocked shocked

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Flash!!!!!!!!!!!!

You go GIRL!


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My My My : dear leonelly; was up?

For the contrary, the higher the country score the further away from being the #1 corrupt nation in the world, so being number 102 is not bad, read the report.

santanar, i am not a guy who usually posts without reading, so you need not implore me to read the report. reading is not what is important; comprehension is the key thing. here is how this study works. the base number is 10. the countries with scores closest to 10 are considered least corrupt. so DENMARK, SWEDEN , SINGAPORE score 9.3. the farther awy you go from 10, the more corrupt you are perceived to be. so a country with a score of 4.3 is less corrupt than one with 3.5. understand it now? and 102 is deemed more corrupt than 65.

Maybe that is what happenned with LF and his cabinet, they got confused and went the wrong way with the numbers on the chart. See there was an explanation for it, lets name a commission to investigate why we went down er, up, whatever on the transparency chart.

It could also be due to poor translation and they mistook transparent for invisible and thought no one could see them being corrupt.

and, old school trinitario, here are the rankings of those "little islands in the caribbean".
21; St Lucia
22; Barbados
28; St Vincent
33; Dominica
36; Puerto Rico
65;Cuba
72; Trinidad and Tobago
96; Jamaica
102; Dominican Republic
147;Haiti

santanar, you have the number all wrong, the table do depart from 180 country, being the country that occupied that spot the most corrupt, our country is standing 102, see the regional ranking below:
1. Chile 2. Uruguay 3. Puerto Rico 4. Costa Rica 5. Cuba 6. El Salvador 7. Colombia
8. México 9. Perú 10. Brasil 11. Panamá 12. Guatemala 13. República Dominicana 14. Bolivia
15. Argentina 16. Honduras 17. Nicaragua 18. Paraguay 19. Ecuador 20. Venezuela 21. Haití

santanar, we are not piling on. but that is how the tables are read.

# 65 No, you are a more of a crook.
# 72 No, you eres mas crook.
# 102 No, you are more better crook.
# 96 No, No, you are the most worst crook.
# 140 No the most baddest crook be Haiti, but they have no TV or newspaper so they do not know.

Meanwhile back at the UN Ranch, LF. "You have to send more money from your rich countries to our poor countries". We need another subway train.

I will keep away from using sarcasm in any of my post from now on due to the fact that some people here, specially the rastafari genius can’t resist the chance to jump in anyone comments and insert their so call knowledge of the topic.
If you look closely at the source of this list you will find that the base of this study solely relies on surveys and perceptions indexes with no actual facts or paper trail to document the actual corruption, there is no a mathematical formula to determine how really corrupt are this countries. For example take a look at St.Lucia population as of 2006 166,014.
Small island and small country how corrupt are they (21) compared to D.R population 9.365 million (102).

If you know anything about ratios and % you’ll find that considering the population and government size of this little island the D.R is less corrupt than a lot of this countries on the list.
How freaking corrupt are you when you live en el barrio cuatro calles only four people work for the government and you are rank 21 in the world. Think about it rastafari genius.
D.R baby !!! you can criticized it, you can hate it but you can’t live without it.

yanikekes anyone ;)

trinitario, for someone so uneducated as yourself, it is really unbecoming to cast aspersions at others. firstly, you could not even interpret correctly how the rankings were arrived at when you first read the article. here is the rub, trinitario. the sizes of the countries have nothing to do with corruption. if that was the case, we could prepare an index simply by listing countries in order of size. the sampling methodology is consistent for all countries. the size does not matter. the criteria on the questionnaire are the same for every country. actually, i have no idea of what you are trying to say. why don't you get one of your friends who went to school to unravel it for you. then we can continue this little discourse. by your logic, since this country has 9 million people, we should rank at the same level as all countries with 9 million. say it ain't so, trinitario.

for someone so ignorant for someone so stupid for some one who is less than human such as yourself when we have our test to use the internet....we ill continue I have no idea you are so dumb etc. blah blah blah same old horse pucky dread ...just skip the intelligence insults or lack of education insults and get to the point

The master of the Ad Hominem attacks has spoken!

actually, he is the one who started off with the ad hominems, such as "rastafari genius". had he been civil, i would not have responded like that. but, then again, i do not expect fairness from you, because fairness is a quality found in men of honor.

cheap shot again dread

and please call off your pit bull with the lipstick Josie

when you decide to be fair, i will stop cheap shotting you. fair is not that hard. you know me. i am not going to let people insult me, or attempt to, and sit still. there are many things i know very little about, and i never post in certain threads, preferring to listen and learn. so when someone, who obviously does not understand sampling methodology, decides to attack me with no foundation, they should be prepared to defend themselves.

Dread,

Is Chauncey Cuban?

"actually, he is the one who started off with the ad hominems, such as "rastafari genius". had he been civil, i would not have responded like that. but, then again, i do not expect fairness from you, because fairness is a quality found in men of honor."

Chauncey is the one I was refering to!

i understand, Josean. as to whether he is Cuban, i am not aware that any country will admit that he is one of theirs.

Now do you think he has the legs to wear the BLUE DRESS!

he is on his way to retreive it from the dry cleaners, as we speak. Sarah will lend him a fur coat, which, in this case, is not alive. she will also allow him the use of a dogsled, so he can arrive for the tryst in grand style.

Once again the mouthpiece of jah has spoken and his court Chester follow.
What part of the dialog you didn’t understand ohhh you civil one, perhaps the part in witch you need to use some mathematical equation to reach a more accurate result, not the perception of outsiders.
The fact that you can’t comprehend a simple point of view such as my previous post lead me to believe that within all your fluency lays a perfectly straight moron.
Somebody in search of his own identity I would say.
And one more thing Sir. You are as civil as a horse’s Azz


Like I said before there are those who will use any excuse to put my patria down
Clowns, haters, fake scholars and foreigners. But if one thousand times they try two thousand times I will defend her.

trinitario, i thought you were at least smart enough to quit while you were behind. it seems as though you do not know when to fold. you would not make much of a poker player. let us try this again. when studies are done based on perception, as this one is, the methodology is constant, despite the size of the sample. you cannot apply different criteria to different sample sets, because of variations in demographics or sociographics. if you know otherwise, construct me an econometric model to describe your idea. otherwise, i will remain the mouthpiece of jah, and you the orchestra of ignorance.

dread says" i thought you were at least smart enough to quit while you were behind. it seems as though you do not know when to fold ".........WOW how unusual dread leads with intelligence insult..... colour me surprised it is not like he has done it 1000000000000000 times before

Dread was taught in Clown School never to insult the people of the country he is visiting.....Go sit in the corner with your Mickey the Dunce hat on Dread

Dread I like that one "orchestra of ignorance." may I use it ......If Bullshit was Music... Dread would be a brass band a very large brass band

Dread do not lose your sense of humour it is your saving grace......it is your only grace

and you, GC, would be the sputum i expel periodically from my trombone.

To kill your argument quickly and without wasting anytime trying to remove your hater mask I must first give you the definition of perception.

a.-Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.

When you base your argument base on human perception you are bound to debate and debate until the end of time, why; because your result will be always inconclusive. There is no need for me to show you any econometric model or to explain the methodology behind any T.I surveys or indexes.

Perception base argument never achieve accuracy only a close measure.
That’s why in a court of law you can never accuse anyone or defend yourself
Using perception to base your argument.

For example I perceive you as a person with little self steam base on your little tolerance for criticism.
Maybe after a whole childhood of abuse and a diet of nonstop dirt cookies you developed a sense of self grandiose, ultimately becoming the great fake rastafari genius that you are today.
All I can say to you is that consider your sources before you start dispensing
Baba over your keyboard, read a little bit about T.I , about who they really are and who pays for all this surveys.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/200....rough-transparency-international/

P.S.
I apologized to horses for making such a horrible remark about their azzes.
My bad

oh jeezus, there he goes again. what now, Dear Lord? now he offers that in court you cannot use perception as a defense. in which court? do you know how many people have been acquitted in homicide and wounding cases, because they "perceived" the victim to be an intruder, given the circumstances? go read the definition again, and digest it slowly.

self steam? is that as opposed to other kinds of steam, perhaps?

go sit in the corner Dread and stop insulting the Dominicans

at least i did not tell him to go f himself

some times, GC, we all end up in a battle of wits with unarmed people

Make no mistake about it little rasta man there is no battle of wits here since you have none. You tried time after time to look smart but you always end up with your foot in your mouth.

“do you know how many people have been acquitted in homicide and wounding cases, because they "perceived" the victim to be an intruder, given the circumstances”

if you are sleeping in your room and a stranger walks in on you and you shoot him dead you are no longer perceiving you are assuming and you acted upon that.
But knowing the little man that you are you probably will hide under your bed.

If you have any doubts about how perception can change a trial just ask your mentor
O.J Simpson

trinitario, the first rule of intelligence; "when you are in a hole, do not keep digging". i know you are trying hard to make a point of some sort, but you are muddying the waters by trying to deliver an insult at the same time. second rule of intelligence; "if you cannot improve on silence, remain quiet". nobody will fault you for it. but your insistence to continue this little debate, for which you are not equipped, is making you look silly. so, rule number 3; " BETTER TO BE THOUGHT A FOOL, THAN TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT". those are your lessons for the month, since i know it is too much for you to digest in a single evening. because, trinitario, there are many other scenarios to a mistaken shooting than the one you describe. there are situations in which you can perceive something, and the perception proves to lead to an incorrect conclusion on your part. and no, i will not be billing you for these lessons.

so, trinitario, i leave you with this, with all good intention. the definition of perception is "the process of making sense of the world around you". that depends on many factors, depending on who you are. it depends on sensory system, age, health, fatigue, and, in the case of women, their female cycle. women react differently to the same stimulus, depending on the time of the month. does the condition PMS mean anything to you? there are also social, cultural, and other behavioral factors. the same person can perceive the same issue differently from day to day, and from hour to hour. that is why some married couples fight over issues that others find insignificant. there ends my free lesson for the day. if you need more learning, go to google. you have a pc

Bottom line deeply disturbed little man is that you will never admit that you are a very eloquent idiot
After several visits to Wikipedia you still can’t come up with a clear point of view, to me that is related to the way you were raised. I guess you were never allow to talk much around your house and now that you reach puberty you spend your afternoon venting a very coordinated mambo jumbo on D.T
Let just leaved at that. I’ll keep my very corrupt country rank # 102 in the world and you keep hating on it as if nothing happened. But before I forget about this unpleasant afternoon I would tell you I didn’t start the confrontation; You did that by “assuming” or “perceiving” I didn’t understand how to read the rankings published by transparency int’l undermining my intelligence and taking my sarcastic comments out of context just too once again satisfy your Rastafarian genius alter ego.
Just don't reveal your true self in any yanikeke stand in santo domingo i got eyes everywhere
foo

first of all, if anyone is disturbed , it has to be you. i never made a single comment on the rankings, so i have no idea where you get it from that i am hating on anyone. rankings such as these mean nothing to me. i am a guy who likes numbers and figures, not polls and opinions. secondly, there is nothing wrong with wikipedia. maybe it would be a good idea for you to use it more often. thirdly, you need to tone down the anger. you need a clear mind to formulate any kind of meaningful argument. you do yourself a disservice by threatening people over a difference of opinion. let your words do the talking. i have been around people in new york that would eat you for lunch, so i do not scare as easily as you might think.

Dread quit threatening and insulting the locals ....you are a guest in their country act accordingly.....We are not interested in your criminal friends and activities in NYC....we get enough deportees .... so try to get along please instead of making a spectacle of yourself ...the civilized people on this board are leaving in droves because of your behavior....I beseech you try to get along....this is an outrage...stop acting like a weanie

Corruption has been going on for years and until someone with a firm hand stops it this problem will continue. People are not held accountable for there actions and that is the problem; if the police were paid a descent wage I believe corruption won't be as bad. How do you expect someone to be paid very low wage with high inflation and crime to do a honest job. I am against any corruption, but it starts with government first; they need to pay those positions much better. D.R. gov't mismanages hundreds of millions of dollars and it won't stop until people are put in jail and the assets seized.

Of course there is a lot of corruption in the DR. It is impressive. It is noticeable as soon as you land at the airport. increase funding on education and stop bribery. Most of the problems in the DR is for the low level of education.

"Most of the problems in the DR is for the low level of education."

Precisely!

so get one josean ....a GED at least ...and that goes for your little buddy chill also

and LF has the nerve to go up to NY and ask for more money to support his corrupt system...to pay for all the ghost positions he has created as payback for compromises he made to get elected with dirty money to include drug money. When are the Dominican people going to hold him and his government accountable for they are the ones getting screwed out of benefits that are rightfully theirs...stronger education, better security etc etc. And now he wants to be president for life!!

tejano,

Now your a Texan that knows your taking about, WELCOME!