As the sowthwest burns...
Jimaní, Dominican Republic. - Again responding to press reports, the Dominican Government yesterday sent Army troops supported by two helicopters to dismantle furnaces used to make charcoal from forests in this western municipality and set up a vigilance to prevent the practice from continuing,.
Army commander Joaquin Feliz Perez ordered the furnaces were torched and the charcoal seized will be sent to the Environment Ministry, said Army Intelligence director Francisco Ovalle. Army Planning director Manuel Castillo and 5th Brigade commander headquartered in Jimaní, Jorge Medrano Vólquez also took part in the operation.
Environment Ministry provincial director Héctor Garibaldis Perez accompanied the senior officers in the effort, which led to the confiscation of 943 sacks of charcoal in the community Baitoa Seca and 200 in Las Lajas.
The Army also set up checkpoints to stop all trucks which carry charcoal, until they can show an authorization provided through a program known as Dry Forest.
Several newspapers, Listin Diario and El Dia among them, have recently reported on the depredation of the forests to make charcoal in the Southwest, where three Haitians who were caught in that practice, were gunned down reportedly by Dominicans.
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
Josean lost all his business ! He must be pissed !
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
josean has a chicken BBQ joint called Pollo al Cabrone ......he chokes his own chickens
From: United States
Haitian's only got the charcoal. The Dominicans are pissed, they lost the money.
What a culture, or lack there of.
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Yum Yum Provocon ......that is some good chicken al carbon
Written by: xwill7, 30 Oct 2009 9:57 AM
From: United States, Chicago
good. I just hope they stay at the border and not leave
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Mao Valverde & Miami
gmiller261
your words represent the typical behavior of and american homosexual after been given a STD by a dominican pimp.
So much hate over some herpes, get over it.
From: United States
old_school_trinitario
My input stems from the onslaught of prejudice Dominicans thinking that it was reasonable to kill Haitians and incinerate them. (An article on DT several days ago).
The Dominican reasoning, if they could, was that the Haitian ‘savages’ were raping their land and death was too good.
Well it turns out that the Dominicans were in on the tree slashing and generating charcoal to be sold in Haiti.
So what should be done to those Dominican ‘savages’?
Your homophobic remarks only accentuate your poor to little education and character.
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Miller much of that charcoal is sold in the DR
Written by: zak325, 30 Oct 2009 11:18 AM
From: United States
Its about time for the army to earn it's pay. I just hope the military aren't there for theire piece of the action.
Written by: xwill7, 30 Oct 2009 11:50 AM
From: United States, Chicago
what about the people that burn tires and garbage??? they are spoiling the air
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Mao Valverde & Miami
gmiller261
unlike you, I don't generalized and call all americans homosexsuals, is just you who are a bitter and sour homo.
stop painting all dominicans with the same brush because that my fruity friend is uneducated and rude.
Written by: abc200, 30 Oct 2009 12:34 PM
From: United Kingdom
go solar cooking.......
chicken can be done to a crisp.............
but Dominicans prefer solar salami and platinos.
true eco-lodges are the way forward........
http://www.drakebaytravels.com/Guaria_De_Osa.htmlDoes anyone know if this lodge I did the web site for is still in business.....
www.rancho-aqua-clara.netfirms.com
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Poseur Phony
From: United States
Blutarsky you are truly RETARDED. You irk me so much with your lack of knowledge of the Dominican Republic I have taken a personal vendetta against you. you said " Much of That charcoal is sold in the Dominican Republic". That is a fallacy, I come from los campos de samana, We never bought charcoal we made our own.We cut trees from our personal lands and made it to an as needed basis. In the capitol and big cities they rarely use it since cooking gas is subsidized, you see blutarsky I actually lived in these barrios and campos that you only hear stories about. You should not speak of subjects that you know nothing of.
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
abc,
If you worked on the website for purported ranch, then it probably never went into business to begin with,,,,it probably failed the minute you got involved! I couldn't imagine what the website looked like: we got our compost heaps; we got ripe tomatoes grown in human feces; we got urine coolers, so you could enjoy a nice cold drink; etc.
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
fauxdominican I can see you from Barbacoa in the hills making your charcoal schmuck I have seen you there for years schmuck from the first home built by an extranjero in Barbacoa 40 years ago.....yes I love the pollo al carbon they sell in Las Terrenas schmuck.......yours would truly be known as Pollo al Cabrone
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
A gratuitous recommendation:
I believe it's ill-advised for DT "newbies" to take on some critical contributors with personal attacks, chief among them the indomitable "Blutarsky". It was the bantering and rapid-fire retort between him and "Josean" that prompted me to join the forum. That was really entertaining and, typically, their commentaries were infinitely more interesting than featured stories.
Bluto has toned down a bit, possibly due to frequent castigation by DT monitors; however, he has exhibited great chameleonic adaptation and managed to persist and survive storms.
DT annals are chock full of personalities who took these individuals on and just faded into oblivion, never to be heard from again.
RealDominican, my gratuitous advice to you is: be careful in your challenge to Bluto, lest you want to have similar fate to those who preceded you. I would further refrain from taking on: Josean, Dreadlocks, Lautaro, Generoso and Cibaeno.
You are welcome.
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Written by: Atabey, 31 Oct 2009 8:13 PM
From: United States
Both sides of the island need to use solar energy to cook their meals. Haiti, however, has demonstrated an even greater degree of ecological devastation than the DR, and the Haitian leadership needs to finally act to reconstruct their forest and green spaces. The international community and donor nations need to step-up and demand action. I say that donor nations should subsidize a few million solar cooking devices for both sides. This should alleviate some of the demand for charcoal use. If you only target Haiti, then you create an incentive to sell their devices to the DR, so make it possible for both sides, and give Haiti more of them since the problem is far worse on their side of the island. High rise housing units that remove urban sprawl and thus alleviate the pressure on the green spaces of Haiti needs serious consideration. Millions of trees need to be planted and PROTECTED in Haiti. Again, this should be viewed as a positive; jobs for growers and planters, policing the
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
While sun energy is essentially free, solar energy conversion to electricity is not, as the Dutch clearly found out the hard way and now they pay $0.38/kw-h, one of the highest rate on earth!
Written by: Atabey, 1 Nov 2009 10:18 AM
From: United States
green spaces in Haiti. The NGO should concentrate on a "SAVE THE FOREST IN HAITI" campaign. The blame games need to stop and action taken.
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Written by: Atabey, 1 Nov 2009 5:39 PM
From: United States
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
Abatey,
Some of these might even be slightly practical.
From: United States, La Hermandad
For all I know, all the barrios and most campos in Dominican Republic have been using gas since 1979 and 1980's
And we have not been cutting trees.
IF we allow the Haitians to continue to roam the country doing what they please we will end up like the EASTERN ISLAND with no trees or vegetation. Now Haitians would be happy.
But like always they always blame Dominicans for their calamity.
Now is our fault the Haitians are cutting our trees and destroying our environment. Incredible!!! Hasta cuando!!!
From: United States, La Hermandad
This is soooo bad!!!
To make a sac of charcoal guess how many trees they have to burn?
We need to build that wall and pronto! or our country will be desolated and an environmental disaster like Haiti.
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
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Haitian's only got the charcoal. The Dominicans are pissed, they lost the money.
What a culture, or lack there of.
gmiller261
your words represent the typical behavior of and american homosexual after been given a STD by a dominican pimp.
So much hate over some herpes, get over it.
My input stems from the onslaught of prejudice Dominicans thinking that it was reasonable to kill Haitians and incinerate them. (An article on DT several days ago).
The Dominican reasoning, if they could, was that the Haitian ‘savages’ were raping their land and death was too good.
Well it turns out that the Dominicans were in on the tree slashing and generating charcoal to be sold in Haiti.
So what should be done to those Dominican ‘savages’?
Your homophobic remarks only accentuate your poor to little education and character.
gmiller261
unlike you, I don't generalized and call all americans homosexsuals, is just you who are a bitter and sour homo.
stop painting all dominicans with the same brush because that my fruity friend is uneducated and rude.
chicken can be done to a crisp.............
but Dominicans prefer solar salami and platinos.
true eco-lodges are the way forward........
http://www.drakebaytravels.com/Guaria_De_Osa.html
Does anyone know if this lodge I did the web site for is still in business.....
www.rancho-aqua-clara.netfirms.com
abc,
If you worked on the website for purported ranch, then it probably never went into business to begin with,,,,it probably failed the minute you got involved! I couldn't imagine what the website looked like: we got our compost heaps; we got ripe tomatoes grown in human feces; we got urine coolers, so you could enjoy a nice cold drink; etc.
A gratuitous recommendation:
I believe it's ill-advised for DT "newbies" to take on some critical contributors with personal attacks, chief among them the indomitable "Blutarsky". It was the bantering and rapid-fire retort between him and "Josean" that prompted me to join the forum. That was really entertaining and, typically, their commentaries were infinitely more interesting than featured stories.
Bluto has toned down a bit, possibly due to frequent castigation by DT monitors; however, he has exhibited great chameleonic adaptation and managed to persist and survive storms.
DT annals are chock full of personalities who took these individuals on and just faded into oblivion, never to be heard from again.
RealDominican, my gratuitous advice to you is: be careful in your challenge to Bluto, lest you want to have similar fate to those who preceded you. I would further refrain from taking on: Josean, Dreadlocks, Lautaro, Generoso and Cibaeno.
You are welcome.
http://www.solarcooking.org/PLANS/funnel.htm
Some of these might even be slightly practical.
And we have not been cutting trees.
IF we allow the Haitians to continue to roam the country doing what they please we will end up like the EASTERN ISLAND with no trees or vegetation. Now Haitians would be happy.
But like always they always blame Dominicans for their calamity.
Now is our fault the Haitians are cutting our trees and destroying our environment. Incredible!!! Hasta cuando!!!
To make a sac of charcoal guess how many trees they have to burn?
We need to build that wall and pronto! or our country will be desolated and an environmental disaster like Haiti.
"Dominicans lear to respect the jefe" long live the generalisimo !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyIfofb1ez0&feature=related#
Long live the boss! Trujillo