How can the President continue to say the allegations of corruption are simply politically motivated when his own advisers have stated there are huge savings to the community if the corruption is halted and when the Cardinal and his Bishops speak out against corruption and when there is damning evidence through TV and print media and when we can see it here ourselves every day.
Why does he support Segura who has admitted having many family members and relations of the President in his pay and why did his advisers on presidential pardons resign when he unilaterally pardoned the three rich people in prison who had made millions from corruption.

Less talking and more action. Maybe then we won't be known to the international community as lawless island of theieves.

He chooses to ignore the problems right at home. He knows that there is a lot of corruption yet he chooses to ignore it because the corrupt ones are all his friends.

Lie-onel Fernandez doing what he does best, NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We just take it and take it and take it. How about a little vaseline, please.

Not only would he apply a little vaseline, he'll throw in some sand in the mix for comfort

In China, you get caught, you get shot. Try that here for a couple of months. It works! No repeat offenders! LOL

We should give this guy the greeting he deserves whenever he has the nerve to appear in public. Let him hear how we feel.

I feel very sorry and really heart broken for the most beautiful island in the whole world. I don't think we Haitians and/or Dominicans deserve her as a mother and a provider. As far as I am concerned, there is not really a big difference between how we haitians and dominicans treat our people and this beautiful island. At least the haitians are destroying their side of it out of sheer ignorance and incompetence, but you, the cousins from the East, have a long way to go in order to get rid of those sharks that are feeding out of your country and who don't care either for the people or the land.

Shame, shame on us! I don't think that the ones who fought for freedom from our side and yours had in mind to let special interest groups enslave socio economically our people.

I do not understand why the president needs to have a lunching meeting to discuss corruption in the country. (Is this like the same meeting he had a few days ago to
discuss the electrical situations in the country?) He knows who they are and where they are. They are politicians, high-ranking Police/Military officers, Businessmen, friends and family members. Ever since LF took over as president corruptions is widespread, Drug trafficking is big business, electricity is worsens than worse, no running water, new roads, and tunnels/ bridges that are falling apart, only after a couple of years old. Yet he wants to have a meeting discuss what? The only credit I give LF is the sophisticated way he talks to the country and how he thinks we are a country of fools. The true is we are a country of what is in it for ME, MYSALF, AND I.

Anti-corruption Luncheon seminar MENU.
Hosted by Leonel Fernandez - Prepared by Rachel Ray( BECAUSE SHES A WHITE American)

1.) Tossed salad with a house dressing and grilled shrimp cocktail. Chicken Dominicano with a light alfredo sauce covered with sauteed mushrooms.

2.) Porter house steak and MAINE LOBSTER TAIL SERVED with papas .
3.) Rancho Tipico Dominicano buffett option.

4.) BANANAS FOSTER SERVED in a rich chocolate sauce and topped with a heavy whipping cream .

Please come early for our welcome cocktail party where guests will be served unlimited quantaties of Presidente , Cuba LIBREs and Mama Juana before , during and after the luncheon .
LADIES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST ( SEE BILL CLINTON FOR DETAILS)

LF should stop B.S. and hold those accountable for their actions. Corruption is well known in all government offices,but how can those DR gov't fat cats continue to steal from the poor. It is sad very sad that still people starve every night and the gov't doesn't do a thing about fixing the problem. Over and over politicians and the wealthy are caught with their pants down why not take action LF! Please When LF term is over his friends will walk away with MILLIONS OF $ and act like nothing is wrong. TOTALLY WRONG!!!

Penasuazo75,

It is not that Lie-onel Fernandez is not willing to deal with the problem; it’s that he is the problem!

Do you real think he doesn’t know about The Who, What, When, Where and How? He doesn’t address the corruption because he is the personification of corruption.

He is up to his ears in it!

Agreed ! Not only does he know it intimatly , but its the corruption and the ones responsible for it that keep him in his little comfort zone and finance his campaign for another term of it.

Reydeladanza,

Agreed 1000%!

All what is written is speculation but it is my guess that tomorrow Leonel will again try to sweet talk his way around this problem by saying the tendering processes have improved , the evidence against Segura is not strong , he has put anti corruption legislation in place and every country has a little corruption.
He will admit to nothing and say it is all a big beat up by the press and politicians

Enjoy the video:

http://www.noticiassin.com/www/?g....y_article&aid=6716&tid=20

Isn't Gallup one of Lie-onel Fernandez's favorite polling outfits!

Source DR1

Gallup reveals more unhappiness

The recently released Gallup-Hoy poll reveals that 53.3% of the 1,200 persons able to vote that were interviewed feel that the government is not doing a good job within the education sector. An even lower perception of performance is perceived for other areas of the economy, fighting drugs, the energy sector or Haitian immigration.
Of those polled 77.6% said that the government is not doing a good job in the area of Haitian migration, while 75.8% believe the government is not doing a good job with food prices and 75.6% feel they aren't working properly in the effort to create jobs.
With regards to the energy sector, 63.8% believe the government has done a poor job managing the situation.

continued:

The same Gallup-Hoy poll reveals that 45% of Dominicans are unhappy with how the government has handled the effects of the international financial crisis, while only 35% feel the government has done a good job.
Also, 49% of those interviewed say they don't agree with the measures the government has taken during this time, while 45% do agree with the measures adopted by the government. Among the measures implemented are a loan from the Inter American Development Bank for US$300 million, to free up credit, flexibility in bank credits, reduction of interest rates and a temporary flexibility of prudence norms.

The poll also revealed that 60% of those interviewed feel that President Leonel Fernandez only governs for a privileged few, while 36% feels he governs for the benefit of the country.
In the same poll, 8 of every 10 Dominicans say they are against the installation of a cement plant in the buffer zone of the Los Haitises National Park.

He who lives by the polls dies by the polls!

Headline:

President Fernandez opts for more talk on corruption but opts out for actually doing anything about it.

Suicide or Costa Rica

I am 100% sure that if LF run for president again he will win. All he have to do is, two weeks before the election, have his people turn on the electrical power grid throughout the country, paint a bridge or two, fix’s a couple of streets, open the water vales in some of the sectors that have not had water in the last two years and handout a couples of food bags and he get reelected again. What a great country.

joshtati14,

I am afraid you may be right!

LF can't run again...unless there is an ammendment in the DR's constitution. Instead, it will be R. Segura's squeeze, Margarita, who will be the next PLD candidate and President of the republic in 2012..

LF will find a way to run in 2012, if not in 2016, by then everyone had forgotten the pass and reelecte him again because thats the way we Donincan rolled.

Juango,

Like Lie-onel Fernandez’s idol Joaquin Balaguer said the constitution is just a piece of paper!

It has no use to Dominican politicians other than in an emergency when the run out of toilet tissue!

Here you have it joshtati14,

Medina and First Lady tie in poll

Danilo Medina and First Lady Margarita Cedeno are head to head in voters' preference for the PLD candidacy in the 2012 presidential election with 26.1% and 26% respectively, according to a Gallup-Hoy poll.
In the PRD, the top rated candidate is Miguel Vargas Maldonado with 67% support, compared to former President Hipolito Mejia who has 6.4%.
When identifying voters who are loyal to the PLD, the poll found that 38% prefer Margarita Cedeno, compared to 20% for Medina. Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez is a distant 6.9%
In the PRSC, the favorite candidate is Amable Aristy Castro with 45%, followed by Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso with 15%.
The nationwide poll was held from 8-12 July, and 1,200 men and women aged 18 years or over were polled. It has a margin of error of 2.8%.

Source DR1

"Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez is a distant 6.9%"

The minister, aka ,Saint James seems to be stuck in CEMENT! He barely beat Hipolito!