No No No it cant be true - didnt PLD win the election and hence you are living "in the promised land" why on earth would they be leaving????????????????????????????

Puerto Rico Jobless Rate at 16.5 Percent


SAN JUAN – The unemployment rate in Puerto Rico stands at 16.5 percent, the highest of all U.S. jurisdictions, and the government is announcing even more layoffs of public employees.

“Puerto Rico is suffering its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but the scenario isn’t very different from the rest of the United States,” Labor and Human Resources Secretary Miguel Romero said on Monday.

CAN SOME ONE PLEASE TELL THESE PEOPLE WHATS GOING ON IN PUERTO RICO. THE CHANCE THEY TAKE TO BECOME SHARK BAIT.

Danny00,

well put....

Puerto Rico is considered by many in the U.S as the American slum Island of the world.

two years ago they had to call out the national guard the crime rate is so high.
not a safe place to vist or live for honest working people.

in the states a good plummber makes as much money as a advage doctor.
why not open up trade schools? plummbers, painters, elec.?
at least then dominicans travling to other countries would have a trade behind them to back them up in quest of making a good living in the real world.
in new york city the dept of sanitation {garbage men have a starting salary of $75,00 a year most make over $100,000 with over time.
choo choo train.
all aboard

Rio,
If PR with the 9TH HIGHEST per capita production and availability of scientist and engineers in the world, a college graduate rate that is commiserate to the mainland US, the highest Global Competative Report index in Latin America as well as Human Developement Index. An infrastructure that includes Super Highways with electronic toll collection and more paved roads than the circumference of the planet earth in an area that is just 100x35 miles squared. If those standards deem it a slum, then what adjective could be used to describe the rest of Latin America?

Danny,
Why don't you make your points and ideas available to the political "establishment" in your home country of Haiti? You seem to have such a great breadth of knowledge regarding so many topics, it seems silly to just offer these gems to Dominicans when your home country is 10 billion times worse off. While you're at it please come up with a way to ease the incalculable burden that illegal Haitian immigration has caused upon the DR. I have great respect for Haitians and their plight but the remedy for their situation has to come from their own people and representatives, not at the expense of Dominican cultural and financial interests. In light of the situation that your home country is in, it seems disingenuous for you to cast negative aspersions to any country. Your house is not glass, it is non-existent and so if people in glass houses should not throw stones then people in no houses should not even throw glances. Take the advice and a few remedial English classes as well.

Thank you Devin11, great posts!

Devin, you are the man.

The PR is equal to many slums in America, most American tourist heading to the Caribbean avoid the PR as a vacation spot.

The PR has potential to rival many Caribbean destinations especially being that it's in U.S territory which makes it a plus.

I don't know what the percentages are by I'm willing to bet the PR is not high on the list.

Every time I travel to the PR most vacationors I meet are folks with PR heritage visiting family and friends.

Rio,
If you were willing to bet, you would lose that bet. According to the World Tourism Rankings, PR is 7th (out of the more than 36 destinations in the Americas) in visiting International Tourists to the Western Hemisphere with 3.68 million visitors, just below 6th place Dominican Republic with 4.13 million International visitors. Let me also add that in relation to native population, PR has the highest percentage of international visitors than any location in the Americas, including the US, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, by far. Please consider these independent demographically sourced factual components, especially in lieu that they are directly opposite to your opinions. Opinions are fine and everybody has them but they are not facts and when your opinions are so completely and diametrically opposed to the truth, it's time to reconsider your opinions.

Bias...not hardly my grandparents are from the PR. I've been to the PR many times in the past on vacation I also have family living there. The facts stated in my previous post were from people I know in the west coast of the U.S when asked.

Rio,
Again, your opinions and those of your friends are not facts. Please defer from offering them as such, the only "facts" are the independently sourced and easily verified datum that I offered in response, those are facts. If your grandparents are really from PR, I don't think they would appreciate the dismissive and counterfactual representation that you have stated. When someone offers an opinion that is so diametrically opposed to reality, the most consistent rationale I can conjure up is bias. The thing I find the most disengenous in this forum or when arguing a position with someone is the "personal anecdote" excuse. That's why I prefer to argue with factual data and not any conveniently made up and non-provable anectdotal evidence, especially when it flies in the face of reality.

Riosm: Give it a rest

devin 11.
in the 1st [place your numbers are all bull sir.
and your thoughts are not correct on who is a haitian.
puerto rico is one s,,,t hole i lived their for 5 years in san juan.
i lived in new york city for many years with them.
every f... drug dealer has move back to the island
i have more facts then u have brains in your behind guy.
i just took a quick look in the mirror an see that iam still white with lots of hair on my head. bet u u have not had a hair cut [no need with the very short bl. hair u have} in a while... why dont u speak about the crime rate in puerto rico not the roads they have? they called out the nation guard to support the police. have a nice day in la la land mr d. 11

July 23, 2010
Copyright © 2010 THE PUERTO RICO HERALD.

. After toying with the idea for what seems like half its term, the Calderón administration is calling up the Puerto Rico National Guard to join the fight on crime.
The move comes in the midst of a spike in crime this July, with several high profile killings and shootouts among would -be drug kingpins causing panic and creating headlines. So far, the island's murder rate this year is 33 above last year's murder rate, which has steadily risen every year since Gov. Calderón took power in January 2008. Last year, Puerto Rico's rate of killing was three times the national average.

Surely she can't be blamed for the increase in killings. But just as surely she has shown herself to be an absolute disaster in administering law enforcement policy. After all, having four heads of the Police Department in as many years is absolutely unprecedented in island history.

LOÍZA, P.R. — As people strolled past the Alambique liquor store here recently, the puddle of blood and the bullet-shattered storefront behind it scarcely merited a glance. Yet another young man had been shot. Yet another tally would be added to the record books

Dennis Rivera for The New York Times


There have been 525 murders in Puerto Rico so far this year.
For Roberto Clemente, who lives down the street from the crime scene, such casual acceptance illustrates just how deeply Puerto Ricans have been shaken by the island’s murder wave.

“Enough is enough,” said Mr. Clemente, 59, who works for the town doing cleanup duties, as he motioned toward the liquor store. “We live unsafely in our homes. The cops know who did what, but there are no witnesses. Even if you see who did it, you stay quiet.”

Now plagued by a steadily worsening murder rate, more Puerto Ricans are second-guessing their evening plans, contemplating moving to the mainland

moving back to the states? s...t they better read mr devil's11 comments before they do that.
or was it mr devin11. wonder what the 11 stands for? maybe his iq?

Danny,
I can read, English, Spanish and French but I'm not versed in Retard, which is obviously your native language. That's said, I think that I can discern, although I'm not sure, from your attempt at a response that my numbers are incorrect. Well here are the sourced materials that I used, that way someone at the asylum you live in could cull the information for you...
THE WORLD TOURISM RANKINGS, THE GLOBAL COMPETITIVE REPORT, THE HUMAN DEVELOPEMENT INDEX. I defy you to refute that the numerical FACTS presented in those sources were mis-quoted by myself. Also, I never said there was no crime or low crime in PR, yet with all that high crime, it still lists the highest quality of life standard and Human Development Indexation in Latin America. Shouldn't a "globe trotter" know how to read? Even a retarded one? Just because you jumped from prison to prison, that does not make you a Globe Trotter.

Calderon was not the gov. In 2008, Danny