Some of the people who attended.
Elias Piña , Dominican Republic.- The residents of the impoverished western province Elías Piña came face to face with president Leonel Fernandez yesterday, when he headed a town meeting with his cabinet to listen to their needs as part of a Provincial Development Council.
Business, sports, social, farm sector, health and education leaders among others had the opportunity to voice their complaints and needs to the chief executive and his aides in the town’s plaza, where only small group of people attended.
A document handed out after the activity announced investments of more than RD$400 million this year, of which RD$370 million will be for install greenhouses and RD$20 million in loans to small businesses, at a rate of 10%, and to finish by yearend several schools now under construction.
Fernandez, who promised to return between December 19 and 20 to personally supervise the works, called the town meeting historical, because the residents voiced their complaints in front of the officials directly and unhindered.
He added that the works are part of the Government’s development strategy in all border provinces, including aqueducts, treatment plants, latrines, sewage systems, bridges, highways, houses, local roads among others.
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
Where are they going to get the $$$$$????
From: United States
Political election promises from a president that can't speak the truth.
From: United States
Rubirosa, they can get the money by simply not stealing everything that is not nailed down. one of the first acts by the new mayor of Santiago, Gilberto Serulle, was to guarantee loans for 42 jeepetas for the members of the city council. each vehicle costs 2 million pesos. 2 million pesos is a figure which was calculated to be sufficient to build and equip a new classroom for a school. as a foreigner looking in, i am sorry to say that i have to concur with others that there is no hope that this country is going to join the 21st century any time soon, because there is something in the culture that germinates inexplicable degrees of corruption and selfishness among its people. politicians talk about progress, but do nothing but line their pockets, and set up their friends and relatives. i was speaking to some gentlemen from Europe, who told me that the gypsies in that part of the world constitute an asocial underground, with questionable morals, and work ethic.
From: United States
it was the opinion of a few of these people that a large sector of the local population must , somehow, be descended from the spanish gypsies. they state that large contingents of gypsies, unwanted in europe, were sent to the spanish colonies, much the same as criminals were sent to penal colonies like australia. it was an interesting conversation, which presents a seed for examining why things work, or do not work, the way they do here.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Oct 2010 9:27 AM
From: United States, NYC
Dread,
There are a few missing pieces to the puzzle:
0. The burning and de-population of the western townships under orders from the Spanish Crown.
1. 1697 and The division of the island between France and Spain.
2. French Haiti establishes richest and most intensive slave labor colony in the New World, perhaps in the entire world. While the Spanish empire declines into a third rate power.
3. The French Revolution and the subsequent Haitian Revolution that established the world's first black republic. The projection of that revolutionary impulse into the eastern side of the island. Leading to an imperialist takeover of the entire island. Yes, small nations can and do practice imperialism or territorial aggrandizement. This Haitian domination would force out many of the leading families, or what remained from the first settlements in the early 1500s. An intellectual vacuum ensued. Many of these immigrants would go to Puerto Rico, Cuba and Venezuela where they woul
From: Dominican Republic, San Carlos, barrio de matatanes, aqui no invente
"Dominican President looks poverty in the face"
too bad poverty can't reach out and slap that MOFO on the face
Written by: Atabey, 15 Oct 2010 9:32 AM
From: United States, NYC
form part of those colonies and nascent republics growth and prosperity. The DR got to endure generations of Haitian intrigue concerning ownership of the entire island. The massive debt obligation that Haiti agreed to pay France for her "losses" were in large measure to be collected from the more fertile and as yet underdeveloped eastern 2/3 of the island.
And we have not even touched the aftermath of the post Haitian occupation period!
Just some thoughts
From: United States
Atabey, i spoke to some European immigrants living in the DR, only this week. these are not guys who are here for the rum and chicas. they are not bar hopping bums. these are brilliant guys. what they have told me distressed me, no end. they said that the DR has a VERY bad image in Europe, and that more and more people have been turned off by reports from those who have been here, about the national social characteristics of the country. one offered up the idea that the DR is what he calls PENDEJO culture. for those who do not understand what a pendejo is, it is the equivalent of a sucker. the guy siad that in the DR , there is something in the zeitgeist that makes everybody a potential pendejo. the common wisdom among them is that Dominicans mistake kindness for weaknes, and see you as a sucker if you deal in an upright, forthright manner. that is why they feel that if a politician is in a position to steal, and does not, he is a pendejo.
From: United States
it is this proclivity to capitalise on people who let their defenses down which has turned off the people of Europe, in particular, and which has caused the cancellation of all the major Russian and Easter European plans for the DR. the internet is your friend, but can be your worst enemy. so, when some guy buys a piece of land here, and finds out that he got a bogus title, everyone in Bucharest and Sofia, and Leipzig, finds out. that does not bode well for future advances in tourism, and investment. lets hope the chinese do not get swindled in Punta Cana, or the dog will be dead.
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
Dread, I have to agree with you on this: "they can get the money by simply not stealing" that's a true fact. DR is a gold mine, we have a 80 billion dollars economy, plus the international help that comes in to fight poverty and many other things; if they just stop stealing there is enough money to really help the masses and develop our country into a truly 21st century nation.
Thank you.
From: United States
DONT BE SILENT, one of the main problems with the expenditure of government funds is the fact that too much of it goes into rent seeking activities. that is an economic term for money which is unproductively spent. too much is wasted on politicking, which produces nothing. too many no show, no work jobs. i see hordes of guys, daily, who do absolutely nothing but laze around, doing nothing, collecting money for being connected to this diputado and that senator. a 21st century society, given the economic strictures the world is staring at today, CANNOT funtion like this, in the long run. just cannot.
From: United States
LF, you empty suit.
What happened to those other greenhouse that were never installed or were taken by your cronies?
NO ONE GOES TO JAIL.
Failed State.
From: United States
typical, cbelk. blame it on someone else. i suspect that you are probably one of the gypsy descendants that the European gentlemen were pontificating about.
Written by: brootto, 15 Oct 2010 11:09 AM
From: United States, South West Florida
gbeck(glen beck) now you are blaming the blacks etc, but as far as i am concern those so call Haitian politicians where not there let's said about 20 or so years ago, most of then where light skin or white whatever you want to call then so this mess did not started yesterday. so stop the blame game
From: United States
no, brootto. it was the Haitians that brought down Baninter. they are the ones who cause the DR to come in last, religiously, in certain education evaluation parameters. it is the Haitians who have caused the DR to rank number 14 in the world for worst resource mismanagement. it is the Haitians who cause us to have the most expensive, yet slowest internet service in the region. and, yes, without them, we would never hear those 4 famous words...SE FUE LA LUZ.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
To look poverty in the face, Mr. President, you don't need to go that far.
Take a walk in your own Villa Francisca...if you dare.
From: United States
at least he is there! in their faces!
Written by: brootto, 15 Oct 2010 12:51 PM
From: United States, South West Florida
jarabacoa he was there but like the article said a small group of people attended(hand pick).
Written by: brootto, 15 Oct 2010 12:51 PM
From: United States, South West Florida
jarabacoa he was there but like the article said a small group of people attended(hand pick).
Written by: Rainman, 15 Oct 2010 1:20 PM
From: United States
If they will only protect the foreign investors and let them bring the money into the country to invest without having to pay the corruption tax the country will flourish without the need for the gov. to get involved and get more into debt
Written by: TheTruth, 15 Oct 2010 1:31 PM
From: United States, Boston
The Sec. of the Frontier has every plan known to man to get the border of DR and Ht going but no money is ever in the budget for it. The Sec. of Frontier office is very quite when you go there. Just acroos the street on the corner from the palace is the most worthless office in StoDmgo. I hope he will start the cash flow to the west now. Everyone in that office has a pile of studies and plans but never a peso to get going.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Truth
You know why?
Because that border is a money printing machine as it is, and it's its owners' policy to leave it as it is.
Written by: Grosero, 16 Oct 2010 9:49 AM
From: United States
Dominican President looks poverty in the face?
Bull Shit!
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
the next president of the Dominican republic has to stop the strangle hold that inept corrupted scumbag military and police and congress has on the nation . theres need to be reform as soon as possible . I think the only way to destroy the corrupted mentality of dominicans is dare l say it a new world order , maybey slowly Americans can infiltrated and alter and slowly pass on new laws with a handpick Dominican American mole to destroy and rebuild the nation morals.
From: United States, NYC
Oh wow this pretty awesome I'm gone to school for a week and this board gets hot. Nice!
Welcome to Neo-Brasil (Haitian style). Unlike Brasil we don't have a good European population to keep our beautiful variations of skin colors. And sadly anything assiociated with them ends up always being negative.
From: United States
i had no idea that kindergarten had already reopened for the semester.
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There are a few missing pieces to the puzzle:
0. The burning and de-population of the western townships under orders from the Spanish Crown.
1. 1697 and The division of the island between France and Spain.
2. French Haiti establishes richest and most intensive slave labor colony in the New World, perhaps in the entire world. While the Spanish empire declines into a third rate power.
3. The French Revolution and the subsequent Haitian Revolution that established the world's first black republic. The projection of that revolutionary impulse into the eastern side of the island. Leading to an imperialist takeover of the entire island. Yes, small nations can and do practice imperialism or territorial aggrandizement. This Haitian domination would force out many of the leading families, or what remained from the first settlements in the early 1500s. An intellectual vacuum ensued. Many of these immigrants would go to Puerto Rico, Cuba and Venezuela where they woul
too bad poverty can't reach out and slap that MOFO on the face
And we have not even touched the aftermath of the post Haitian occupation period!
Just some thoughts
Thank you.
LF, you empty suit.
What happened to those other greenhouse that were never installed or were taken by your cronies?
NO ONE GOES TO JAIL.
Failed State.
Take a walk in your own Villa Francisca...if you dare.
You know why?
Because that border is a money printing machine as it is, and it's its owners' policy to leave it as it is.
Bull Shit!
Welcome to Neo-Brasil (Haitian style). Unlike Brasil we don't have a good European population to keep our beautiful variations of skin colors. And sadly anything assiociated with them ends up always being negative.