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Santo Domingo.– Dominican Republic plans to plant 5 million trees along the border with Haiti as part of a project to fight deforestation, which will cost about 35 million pesos and will be carried out under an agreement signed by the Environment Ministry and the General Border Development Administration.

According to the Environment Ministry, pine, mango, mahogany, oak, tamarind and guayacan trees will be planted. The agreement will be implemented via the Quisqueya Verde reforestation program in Montecristi, Dajabón and Santiago Rodríguez provinces in the northwestern part of the country, as well as in the southwestern provinces of Elias Piña, Bahoruco, Independencia and Pedernales.

Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal said the production of charcoal is a threat “to all of us, but when families join reforestation brigades you create green jobs, on the one hand, and reduce the pressure on resources, on the other.”

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36 comment(s)
Written by: CarlosFranco, 28 Jun 2009 2:07 AM
From: United States, Brooklyn

Well someone's gotta do it...


Written by: BASTA, 28 Jun 2009 6:19 AM
From: Dominican Republic, = Ghetto-SPM-Barrio Blanco
Think that's bad than do not go to India. They have not had a tree in a thousand years. We cook there with dried cow shit.
Written by: juanb, 28 Jun 2009 10:33 AM
From: Dominican Republic
GC:

When are you going to start moving around? I miss your locations.
Written by: gmiller261, 28 Jun 2009 10:41 AM
From: United States
Fine. But what about educating the people no to cut them down when they grow big enough?
Written by: old_school_trinitario, 28 Jun 2009 10:42 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Dando pela en las 5 esquinas

more firewood for our brothers

despues se quejan, si no fuera por RD el mismisimo diablaso se lo estuviera llevando.


Written by: BASTA, 28 Jun 2009 11:01 AM
From: Dominican Republic, = Ghetto-SPM-Barrio Blanco
Sorry do not smoke but we made Brownies.

Anyway GTZ a german fdn was in Pedro Santanna 6 years ago doing this same thing
Written by: FredCDobbs This user is banned, 28 Jun 2009 11:08 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
are the trees they planted gone ?
Written by: manolin, 28 Jun 2009 2:10 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Jaime the nephew that dirt the family are going to plant trees for the incoming haitians because is so sunny the road, he better be planting claymore antipersonal mines for stop the avalancha his irresponsible president is allowing to come here, to bother our lives and to enrich bad people here.
Written by: dreadlocks, 28 Jun 2009 11:44 PM
From: United States
Jacirez, or Batard deJacirez, are you back?
Written by: anthonyC, 29 Jun 2009 12:40 AM
From: United States
Tree Farms....NOW.
Written by: xwill7, 29 Jun 2009 10:47 AM
From: United States, Chicago
they need to offer charcoal at a dirt cheap price under some government program, and increase the punishment if you are caught illegally chopping down trees.
Written by: dominicanaamericana, 29 Jun 2009 12:06 PM
From: United States
This is a fantastic idea! Deforestation has really crippled Hispaniola, and every storm that hits causes three times the damage it would if there were trees
Written by: dreadlocks, 29 Jun 2009 1:09 PM
From: United States
old school, my sixth sense informs me that there are probably more marijuana trees in the aforementioned are than some wish to admit.
Written by: DonManuel, 29 Jun 2009 1:15 PM
From: Haiti

GREAT... This is one positive avenue where Dominicans and Haitians can work together for a better future. We need to stop fighting for NOTHING and build a BETTER tomorrow for each dominican and haitian citizen.

GREAT START... We can keep working on issues like immigration, water management, renewable energy, Waste management, Violence, prostitution, drugs, corruption, and so on... Good luck, guys...!!!
Written by: old_school_trinitario, 29 Jun 2009 1:59 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Dando pela en las 5 esquinas
Dread, your senses are right, but what we need is to plant more that way more people will smoke it and think like the great bob marley did.

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil de book "


you know what, i declare today, 06/29/2009 Bob Marley day , I'll fire up a spliff tonite in memory of the greatest, yes michael jackson fans the greates of all time el viejo bob.



Written by: haitiano, 29 Jun 2009 2:13 PM
From: Haiti
Mr /Ms Manolin .I
I am having a hell of a time understanding you !
I know it is nothing good !
Puede ,que en Espanol/Dominicano lo comunicas mejor .
Respetuosamente
Written by: Lautaro, 29 Jun 2009 2:26 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
I wonder what the great Bob would have thought about the trash plaguing the entertainment industry today.
Written by: chillaxin201 This user is banned, 29 Jun 2009 7:50 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Boycott Dominican Tourism
Haitians have been known for eating dirt,I wounder if they'll eat the trees?
Written by: dreadlocks, 29 Jun 2009 9:40 PM
From: United States
trinitario, i am appreciative of, and humbled by ,your high opinion of my very good friend, the late Bob.
Written by: eugenia1, 30 Jun 2009 12:14 AM
From: United States
acian aproximadamen 6 anos que no iba a mi pais y ma asuste cuando vi que en el autobus de cada dies personas cinco eran aitianos. que susederia si ellos se rebelaran?en el asunto de los arboles ahora talbes no cortan tantos, porque ya en los estodos unidos no estan comprando la madera si no tiene el sello en si solo podran bender esa madera en el mercado negro.no era tal carbon.salian muchos barcos llenos de madera para los estados unidos.me lo dijo un americano que lo sabe.
Written by: old_school_trinitario, 30 Jun 2009 9:31 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Dando pela en las 5 esquinas


errrrrr diablo , fuiste tu la que hablo o fue la burra que rebusno
Written by: Pepe32, 3 Jul 2009 9:38 AM
From: Dominican Republic
The should do the opposite ,take a 5 mile strip all along the border and clear all vegetation to make it easier to defend the border,then 80 % of the Dominican military should be planted on bases along the border ...add barbed wire , electronic surveillance and a canine corps (Haitians don't like dogs) and we have a workable solution.
Written by: dreadlocks, 4 Jul 2009 12:16 AM
From: United States
every time i read some of the commentary on these boards, i see a contradiction. if Dominican anti drug laws are so stringent, how is it that so many guys are just getting high, then running for their PCs when they are in an elevated state of hallucination? i mean, take this guy Pepe32(please). Haitians don't like dogs, he offers. as Vince Lombardi is remembered to ask on may an occasion "what the hell is going on here?"
Written by: Pepe32, 7 Jul 2009 8:18 PM
From: Dominican Republic
When leftists have nothing intelligent to say (most of the time) they lash out ...


I can assure you that most heavy drug users vote for leftist parties so maybe it is your unbalanced and erratic entries that are drug induced..

As far as Haitians and their almost pathological fear of dogs ,it has to do with the French use of attack dogs to control the slave ancestors of the current Haitians brought by the French.

Interesting that because dreadlocks does not like any truth about Haiti he zeroed in on the least important item of what I wrote....that's the sinister ideology for you!
Written by: dreadlocks, 7 Jul 2009 10:26 PM
From: United States
Pepe, i find it beneath my efforts to offer a rejoinder to your response. nonsense begets nonsense, and, in your case, multiplies it. the use of attack dogs against haitians in the days of colonisation has no bearing upon what happens today. are you saying that because the french used dogs in the 1700s, a haitian of today has a fear of dogs? is it some sort of genetic mutation, something which is passed down through generations? are you serious? are you sure you are on the right site? should you have been on romper room, but you got lost on the internet highway?
Written by: dreadlocks, 7 Jul 2009 10:28 PM
From: United States
Pepe flatters himself with

Interesting that because dreadlocks does not like any truth about Haiti he zeroed in on the least important item of what I wrote....that's the sinister ideology for you!

Pepe, every item of which you write is equally unimportant.




Written by: FredCDobbs This user is banned, 8 Jul 2009 2:49 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
Pepes argument about dogs is about as illogical as holding white people to day responsible for the slavery of their ancestors, something which is passed down through generations? are you serious? and since most white peoples ancestors were themselves held in slavery at one time or another where does that lead to ? Yes it leads to a bunch of people whining and complaining all the time ....Get on with your lives ...and contribute to the greater good
Written by: Pepe32, 9 Jul 2009 2:46 PM
From: Dominican Republic
My original comment..

The should do the opposite ,take a 5 mile strip all along the border and clear all vegetation to make it easier to defend the border,then 80 % of the Dominican military should be planted on bases along the border ...add barbed wire , electronic surveillance and a canine corps (Haitians don't like dogs) and we have a workable solution.

Strip the part about the dogs and stop deflecting to unimportant issues!

We should not be spending one dime on Haitians!
Written by: dreadlocks, 9 Jul 2009 10:53 PM
From: United States
the part about the dogs is the most important thing in your comments, as it indicates the intellectual level at which you operate. that being the case, whatever else you say must be received with great apprehension. anyone who says anything as foolish as you did should not be on the attack, as it invites further uncharitable answers from readers. and please, do not assert that i am on the Haitian side of the divide. if a Haitian made an equivalently asinine remark, my response would have been in the same tenor.
Written by: Pepe32, 11 Jul 2009 9:18 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Interesting that dread would take one of thousands of comments I have made in DT to measure my intellectual level ,but it doesn't surprise me because I know that the real reason is that I am not a leftist Afro-Nazi and he does not like what I have written here in previous entries.

If he at least were honest enough to admit his true reasons instead of taking the cowardly and intellectually weak rout he would at least be an honorable leftist afro-nazi (oxymoron) but typical of his ideology he remains quite while his pseudo haitian brothers spread stupidity in this Dominican forum so his measure of anyones intellect is obviously suspect.

I will not stop posting in DOMINICAN today and cede this space to people who would wish us to be either more like haiti or even a part of Haiti!
Written by: Pepe32, 11 Jul 2009 9:27 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Me tiene sin cuidado lo que puedan pensar los Haitianos ,este es un foro DOMINICANO y no hay equiparacion posible entre los dos .Los haitianos si gustan pueden tener foros propios y poco nos importaria a nosotros lo que digan o dejen de decir .

Es bueno que en DT exista un foro para muchos que no entienden su idioma natal pero a la vez nuestro idioma es un distinctivo importante y se hace un poco mas dificil tener un dialogo con gente que tienen tan poco que ver con nuestra nacion que apenas saben nuestro idioma y que por extension traen influencias culturales negativas de culturas que nada tienen que ver con nosotros.

Este no es un foro neutral entre Dominicanos ,es un foro para temas Dominicanos desde una PERSPECTIVA Dominicana y las influencias Afro-americanas como las del Sr. Dread no son nuestra realidad por mucho que quieran .

Yo defiendo la posicion Dominicana ante todo y se que cualquier ser con medio cerebro entiende que la entrada masiva de Haitianos en nuestra Patri
Written by: Pepe32, 11 Jul 2009 9:40 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Es mayormente negativa y que los pocos que se benefician de esa "invasion"pacifica son terratenientes y empresarios ricos pero que para la mayoria de la poblacion la entrada masiva de una hueste mucho mas atrasada que nuestra poblacion casi en estado paleolitico con una escase de cultura abismal solo sirve para atrasar nuestra nacion aun mas de lo que esta .

Duarte,Sanchez,Mella,Santana,Imbert estaran dando vueltas en sus tumbas viendo el pueblo que liberaron permitir su eventual y sumisa aniquilacion ante aquellos que no nos pudieron vencer en los campos de batalla pero que con una procreacion desmedida tarde o temprano y con complicidad de nuestros politicos y empresarios llegaran a ser mayoria y ese dia dejara de existir la Republica Dominicana muerta por "hombres" traidores y mezquinos porque antepusieron sus intereses a corto plazo o sus malsanas ideas personales el bien de la Nacion.

Soy pesimista porque no creo que nuestros gobiernos tengan el valor para hacer los necesari
Written by: Pepe32, 11 Jul 2009 9:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic
necesario para impedirlo ya que aun estamos a tiempo,pero las acciones necesarias serian bastante dramaticas y es obvio que Leonel no tiene ni el concepto ni los pantalones para hacerlo!

Written by: dreadlocks, 12 Jul 2009 1:05 AM
From: United States
Pepe32, if you had half a brain, you would have sought to retract your asinine remark, rather than going on the offensive with sophomoric name calling. if you were paying attention, you would have noted that my response to your nonsense was not isolated, but that FredCDobbs was a part of the chorus that found you equally silly. try to get this into whatever you have that passes for a brain; the mere fact that you have opined less offensively in the past does not immunize you from being excoriated for such an excruciatingly egregious remark. to say something so indefensively stupid is something you should be ashamed of. instead of acknowledging a severe lapse in good judgement, you respond by calling me afro-nazi and closet haitian, and all the pejoratives your feeble mind can array against me. we can keep this up forever, because i will neither run out of ideas ,nor vocabulary. if you decide to take the low road, as it appears, we can elongate this nonsense as long as you like.
Written by: Pepe32, 12 Jul 2009 8:52 PM
From: Dominican Republic
You speak of being childlike but it is you that is continuing with the "dog" when I have moved on ,you wish to deflect from the topic of this thread grasping at straws showing your obvious inability to bring anything to the table .I am happy someone translated my writings to you but I could care less what you think because my writings are not aimed at those infected by leftism and afrocentrism ,it is aimed to patriotic Dominicans who are seeing their nation slowly dissolving in the Haitian abyss and which demographics condemn to total inhalation from the most backwards of cultures on this planet.

So you can speak of dogs all you want ,I will continue on my path spreading the truth about what the 'pacific" invasion of DR portends for our future (Dominicans).

Los enemigos de la Patria, por consiguiente nuestros, están muy
acordes en estas ideas: destruir la Nacionalidad aunque para ello sea
preciso aniquilar a la nación entera.

Juan Pablo Duarte


Written by: dreadlocks, 12 Jul 2009 11:31 PM
From: United States
you abysmally silly fellow! nobody diminishes the fact that the intrusion of Haitians is unsustainable in the long term. i have written extensively about the urgent need to rectify the situation, because it does not portend well for either nation, and a conflagration could result. if you look at other threads, you will see my opinions on the subject. HOWEVER, the fact that you might have a valid point is contaminated by idiotic remarks such as you made. you have a simple choice; ventilate the issues in an air of decency and civility, or act like the consummate jackass, and expect someone to return fire. there is absolutely no need to be gratuitously offensive, unless there is a deficiency somewhere in your upbringing. and name calling is really adolescent behavior; you should consider growing up sometime. it really is not as painful as you think.
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