This is good that LF gets off Dominican scandal merry-go-round ... for at least a week or two ... and deal with legitimate matters of domestic and international affairs.

The consecutive hurricanes are an extreme aggravation of the pre-existing food crisis in the region of LA/C.

The slimy and filthy bourgeoisie and their incurable corruption are, to be sure, an entertaining subject but the slime and filth should never become the chief or determinative issue.

Somebody has to step up on the intensified food crisis in the region.

If you expect the lunatics gops of the USA, the US Nazarene fanatics, or the reactionary US milionaires to do anything humanitarian or moral, then you're out of your mind.

LF may have some ideas about what is to be done in this intensified Caribbean crisis.

I'm not suggesting that LF should ignore the relentless pillaging of the corrupt bourgeoisie.

I'm saying he shouldn't let the malignant corruption of the bourgeoisie, both domestic and foreign in the DR, become the dominant policy issue.

solidarity between haitian and dominicans. this guy's were hangin with cheech and chong.

We need to find ways to assist and help Haiti as much as we can, this will be our neighbor for ever and Haitian like us only goal is to feed our children. My deep condolence to all those in mourning.

Agree with everybody 100 % , Haiti and Haitians must be helped but also Dominican Republic has to do everything available to enforce current inmigration laws and establish order.

Everytime We as people enforce our right to apply the law We get blackmailed by dark ONG'S and some countries to break order and spit on our constitution.

Haiti must be assisted, helped providing whatever necessary resources to alleviate current situation, also we deserve some respect when trying to place things in order.

I'm one that hate those NGOs that only look to criticizes others instead of working inside the country by bringing jobs and prosperity, looking at 500 plus dead to include children during this two hurricane is something that hurt dip inside.

Written by: JRRubirosa, 9 Sep 2008 7:43 PM
From: United States
"Agree with everybody 100 % , Haiti and Haitians must be helped but also Dominican Republic has to do everything available to enforce current inmigration laws and establish order.

Everytime We as people enforce our right to apply the law We get blackmailed by dark ONG'S and some countries to break order and spit on our constitution.

Haiti must be assisted, helped providing whatever necessary resources to alleviate current situation, also we deserve some respect when trying to place things in order."
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That's deep JRRubirosa. And the DR will gain more than respect in the long run for helping them.
As your nation is progressing it (DR) will only be fortified because in the process they opened their hands to help the less fortunate. That will only bless DR's boom even more.

God bless the DR because for the one who gives, he will receive much later on.

So much garbage is written here! Haiti caused its own problems that includes soil erosion and demographic explosion (growing beyond its resources)! DR has its problems! DR is not attending the needs of several towns left incommunicated by the storms and yet DR sends aid to Haiti? Is DR prioritizing Haiti above its own nationals?
DR should mind its own problems! It does not matter that Haiti is our neighbor, we must attend to our problems first! Let the U.S./Canada/UE take care of Haiti! It is through the border that Haiti gives us drugs, contraband, human trafficking, diseases, erosion, deforestation, etc. F*CK that!

greenwave You should be glad the rest of the world doesn;t share your opinion . imagine the dominican republic without world assistance .

WTF!! is this crap!! instead of having good diplomacy with this mafia president of Haiti, we need to make a good excuse to invade Haiti just like the U.S did with Iraq!!, but instead in a small scale :DD


Dominican Republic needs to spend 20% of its GDP in military, 50% in infrastructure and the rest in education, investment, and oil production in azua!!!

do you see how good DOMINICANS are ???

I do hope that the Haitians see these gesture when they call onto OBAMA to help them with the big-bad-dominican people.

I don't see Dread on this post , but hopefully he will take a peek if anyone else knows the answer please jump in.

Here we go, I just received an email from a colleague from Antigua and the subject was help our brothers and sisters in the Caribbean. before I opened up the attachment I just assumed it would be about Haiti, wrong ! it was about Jamaica which suffered some damage from Gustav but nothing even close to the death and devastaion that Haiti is suffereing..

Now to the point , After all my years in this region I don't understand why the other Caribbean nations won't recognize Haitians as their brothers and sisters. And why they won't help them.


It appears that the West Indian's feel they are superior due to their British style upbringing compared to the current and past French and Duttch colonies. It all appears to be tribal.
As much debating that goes on here about uniting the DR and Haiti , I just don't think it is possible and the reason is DNA?

Jander:

Excellent post specially when We "Dominicans" get attacked by "Haitians" trying to say that We kiss ass to the motherland "Spain", in my case my grandparents came from the canary islands in Spain to the Dominican Republic 80 years ago, I do know many people like me that feel proud about being borned and raised in DR but at the same time thank God for our spaniard descendant.

Is so nearsight that somebody from another "Etnic" group will like to obligate you to act and behave like a puppet, At the end We do have very much in common with Puerto Rico and Cuba but never with Haiti since all 3 countries were colonized by the same empire.

Jander and Rubi you are really on to something ....the uniqueness of the Spanish Antilles is truly distinctive of all other parts of the Caribbean ....I love these islands and the foundation of Spain is the glue that holds them together....Just as England is the glue of Jamaica ,Antigua and Barbados etc and I know those islands well but it is the Spanish Antilles I am drawn to

greenwave you need to discover that a capacity for empathy is hard-wired into humans. this means they are designed for goodness and effective moral choices. the only trouble is that political and religious ideology can be used to override natural empathy.

I am happy to know that TT is helping out as well, but as you can read their citizens aren't very pleased either. But they let Haiti back into Caricom so I am sure the idea was for a long term trading partner and any help they provide will be money well spent. The DR government probably realized they better get off their butts and pitch in as well.


TT offers hurricane relief to CARICOM neighbours
http://www.cananews.net/news/131/ARTICLE/29431/2008-09-06.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Today

Dominican Today is an online, English-language Newspaper based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

It is the first and only English language online news publication in the country.

This eDaily provides local and international news, Dominican Republic guides and access to real estate and car portals.

It claims to be the most up to date source of information on the Dominican Republic.

The site Dominican Today was launched on March 23, 2005, and is owned by the media group Portal Alta Tech RD (PATRD), its objective is to cover all the country's English news.

It's founder, Avishai Harel (1947-2006), a native of Israel also established the top Web design company in the country, Merit Designs.

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Hmm.

euromax stop the abuse of inhalants.

Humanitarian reasons aside. Haiti is the Dominican Republic's biggest trading partner. The better off the people are in Haiti the more of the Dominican Products they buy. If the Haitian Economy were able to be uplifted then you would have less Haitians coming to the DR to work.
Something like a hurricane is an act of nature that sees no political cause or solution and humanitarian aid is a human obligation.
I am a transplanted US Citizen so my views are a little less emotion based. It is in the best interest of the DR to assist the Haitian people rebuild there economy. If not for love of your fellow man and neighbor than for your own capitalistic self interest.

CHICAGO, USA (CMC) - United States Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has called for more aid for Haiti which has been battered by successive storms over the past few weeks that have killed more than 600 people.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/ne....CALLS_FOR_MORE_HELP_FOR_HAITI.asp

Dream on any mccain fan here ?

Tonyj you are becoming very emotional about this election my beloved Sarah appreciates your support from afar.....Good luck to Harper in the coming election in Poutinland

One thing I can never understand about Aides to poor Countries and their Governments. Many
Countries are giving out aides in the millions. Haiti is a small Country of 9 million people for example, aides have been giving out in sums that is often in the amount of 200 million dollars alone from France and which France had doubled that amount. Let us say if you were to give 1 million dollars to the 9 million people from that 200 million dollars, there would still be exactly 191 million dollars left in addition to the other additional 200 million dollars. So that is 391 million dollars left. What is Haiti going to actually do with all the rest of the money? That is without even counting the aid money other Countries will give Haiti that will again be in the millions more also in addition to the so many non-profit organizations that have inve. In other words, even the richest man alive could not help or even buy an Island like Haiti and fix it if all those aides money can't.

LOL AFROLATINO. LOL you must be very young if you do not know. Its a business my friend. It works like this.........It's sort of like when you have a really bad bad junk car and you call that number on the billboard and donate it and at the end you get it written off on your taxes and then that same money you just got for it is so little compare to what they are charging you for getting your taxes done that money goes right back to the gov. Its like a boomerang. Let's say 10 countries give out money to Haiti in the sum is 100 million. After Haiti pays the IMF plus the UN yes The UN that is in Haiti right now we have to pay them with that same money. YES HAITI PAYS THE UN TO BE IN HAITI. So imagine after paying all that plus of COURSE like DR the Haitian officials will steal the rest and the people will be left with almost nothing. So out of 100 million the Haitian population will probable see 50K if that.

Come one man think about it. These people have been in Haiti for nearly 5 years and they have not built 1 highway not 1 airport nothing nada zero but they did sure build the biggest US Embassy in the whole Carribean. Yes currently out of all the Embassies that the US has around the world the one that they have in Haiti is Ranked number 4. Think about it now. Why would the US build such a massive infrastructure on a tiny little island like this and its not like they issued Visas a go-go to the Haitians but yet they built the biggest embassy there. What are they up to? Couldn't they build a University with that money? Yes they could have build 5 U.S. like Universities with that money, Hell what about a Hospital oh hell build a god damn church for all I care but an Embassy now come on. The only thing I can think of this is this being done because of the beginning of the merger. HT-DR.Lionel better be on his best behavior and try not too get too close to Haiti because we are very contagiou

Their is no Winn Dixie supermarket in Haiti nor Baptist Hospital, Gold Gym, ect to support a staff that live and work inside the country.

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Written by: gouletcolonial, 10 Sep 2008 3:54 AM
From: Canada
Tonyj you are becoming very emotional about this election my beloved Sarah appreciates your support from afar.....Good luck to Harper in the coming election in Poutinland
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You are right indeed Glout I should slow down, I am not that much interested in Canadian politics
the difference between the liberals are not that striking as in the US unless you want to vote NDP. I will vote for the french fry guy (jejeje)

Dominicanation:

Your idiotic comments don't match common sense at all, also why so proud about being from one side but then using an alias related to the other side of the island.

I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the name of Dominicanation, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God.

"Who may concern"

This week our motherland "Spain" send an airplane with 55 tons of supplies to Haiti, guess that after all Spain is not the evil that Haitians want to portray.

Haven't seen France yet helping the Haitians so why????

Lautaro and JH:

Where is your input regarding this news feedback.....................Spain the evil empire helping Haitians while France is doing crap with Haiti.

You must be way out of your mind if you think that "help" (a hand out, more like) will make any dent into Haiti's current poverty, Rubi. A more meaningful gesture would be to work for the annulment of that country's foreign and/or lending a hand in the creation of solid institutions and infrastructure on that country, in my humble opinion.

Lautaro:

What about asking for accountability to the Haitian goverment instead of waiting for the ONU to fix every single issue in Haiti.

Expecting the planet to fix the whole country (Haiti) wouldn't happen, They could get all the money
available but as long as they don't have responsible behavior who is at blame in this point??

To Santanar: Haiti does have a Gold Gym and Domino's Pizza in Petionville. Actually, I was very impressed with the Gold Gym in Haiti. It is a beautiful building. One of the best Gold's Gym in the world as far as architecture is concerned. I have been to the Gold Gym in Santo Domingo and Santiago at the mall and the one in Haiti is nicer!

To JRRubirosa: I agree with you. The Haitian government has not stepped up to the plate. Haitians are very hard workers. It is their government that has no leadership. There should not be 1 million Haitians in DR. Most of them should be in Haiti working to make Haiti a better place. They have the manpower. They just do not have the leadership. One good thing that DR did well was to invite international investors to DR to build industries such as agriculture and tourism. Haiti did not do enough of that. It is too much of a closed society. Instead of having only 5% white/mix people living there, there would be at least 20% white/mix which would have made Haiti a more international destination and encourage investments.

To Greenwave: You are right, Haiti has a huge problem with soil erosion due to poor people cutting down trees to cook. Haiti has not been pro-active to fix the problems. After 2004 when hurricane Jeanne claimed more than 3000 lives, the U.S. earmarked funds for Haiti to build a Disaster Relief Wharehouse along with Emergency Operations Center which would have saved lived. All that President Preval had to do is to sign the land agreement to build the centers. He never did!!! Pure incompetence which caused 100's of people to die! Greenwave, this is where I disagree with you. The primary reason that Leonel helped Haiti is because they do not want a flood of Haitians crossing the border. This is called political strategy. I commend Leonel for making that move which also did help poor people.