This is not a nutty hugo approved project that is for sure....let us hope that the economy allows this to progress to completion..there are a lot of jobs at stake

GC
What are you now self imposed editorialist commentator?

why not ?

generoso - isn't that the point of the idiot list...I mean coment blog....?

you got that right ....

Photo Caption of LF feeding the mushrooms{public} we are kept in the dark and fed a bunch of BS....." Just throw it down this hole the Mushrooms {the public }dont know any better

" Its dark down here tell us whats going on "

I am afraid that this is another "Pipe Dream" project. $1.4 Billion? We will wait and see. They also mention other projects of $1.2 B by the Piniero Group in SPM/LR coastal area and $2.6 B with Punta Perla in Samana.(with the backing of HRM of Monaco). It is hard to believe all the big numbers, but what do I know? Was it not Javier Garcia (Tourism Minister), the fellow who stated $1.0 B for Cabarete a couple of months ago. I now believe these people don't have a clue what a BILLION Dollars are. They throw around these number to make themselves look important. Pinero Group's Samana properties are hurting, as is the Spanish economy. How and where is a second rate Hotel Developer going to get $1.0B + USD in today's economy. These are Fairy Tales!

I personnaly would like to know how they are investing. In 2003 Chavez froze all FOREX trading and placed limits on credit card spending to $2000 per year for purchases over the internet or when traveling outside of Venezuela. In order to obtain dollars for business or travel you must apply to CADIVI. No country (except on the black market) exchanges Venezuelan Bolivars for any other currency making them , in effect, worthless outside of Venezuela.

http://www.cadivi.gov.ve/

http://www.gkcaracas.um.dk/da/men....eOg%C3%98konomiskeForhold/CADIVI/

yes this is all feel good stuff but things can also change quickly as well ...so be prepared....not as quickly as it fell apart but be prepared ....yes everything is stalled

I must said whatever amount of money these venezuelans are investing does not come from venezuela. it come from those Rich folks that run to florida etc to escape chavez before chavez to total control. That's where the money is coming from. Also remember the value of the dollars so 1 billion now is nothing for an investment of that level.

Is there a landing strip/warhouse planned? Those folks don't pay no never mind to Hugo's currency restrictions.

Brootto, "El proyecto Vista Cana el cual es de capital venezolano" from another report .
For Vista Cana (6 MM m2 total) @ $1.4B = $233/m2 after improvements. That is a PIPE DREAM considering most of the 6MM m2 will not be developed. Just my view only.

Hey maybe it just pr, I just don't know where my country is heading.

sometime we want to be hopeful

that is why we are getting gas on credit to be pay in 20 years.

hey texas shoes remember that we are on chavez list of country to do business with in case you have forgotten.

GC is the King on this site.

So please give him the respect as #1

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Bernies,

The article says Venezuelans not "The government of Venezuela". My wife and I own a home in Puerto La Cruz Venezuela and we have a buyer for it-----Cant get the money out of the country. BTW she is Venezuelan. The Venezuelan government also does a tremendous amount of business with the US as well. Besides a resort for the "Rich Oligarchs and evil capitolists" is against the Chavez socialist agenda.

In regards to the Gas, if the price of oil does not make a dramatic climb, Petrocaribe is going to be in the Sh*t as it was based upon $65-75 dollar a barrel prices.

Jander you are to kind .....I have made a note in my will and testament ..my attorneys will be in touch when the time comes

'my attorneys will be in touch when the time comes'

That's ok a beer someday will be fine..

a brewery for you in your backyard

Venez, the leading nation in the Caribb will make a great investment,. Good luck. Loyal people shoud re-invest in Venez. Only crooks and speculators would want to get thier money out of this fantastic country.
S.

well, yet more golf courses and playgrounds. when is anybody going to invest in light manufacture and agriculture? the whole country will soon be one big resort, and eggs will be 100 USD per dozen!

drive them into the ocean dread with the Mexicans from the airport

not a bad idea. close, but no cigar. you still have not made an intelligent remark in 9000 plus postings

These are not "fairy tales". There are other big expensive tourism projects ($1 billion+ USD) in the DR. Projects like Cap Cana and Roco Ki.

dread it appears another unintelligent one oh great exalted genius

When I get $1 billion usd or more, I'll built the biggest and coolest project in the DR and all of latin america. It's something that will get more people expending even more money than they do in those projects. *looks at bank account* damn! lol

the perception gap between us is not as a result of my being so smart; it is because you are so ignorant. it is all relative. the difference us is that i put facts out there, and allow people to form their own opinions. you believe that you should give opinions, with no facts to back them. we have a different approach to academia, that is all. i am not going to say something, then, when asked to substantiate it, i run away and ignore it. that is your way, and you are entitled to it. you are a propagandist, a guy who trades in misrepresentations and half truths. i do not appropriate that luxury to myself. if i cannot prove it, i do not print it.

From the Influential International Living:
"We Can’t Afford to Live in the States Anymore."
We’d just finished dinner with a couple of International Living readers. They’ve decided to buy a house in Merida, where we live, and move here permanently.

“Health care and insurance costs alone are killing us. Add property tax, and it’s too much…especially when you consider that the value of our house in the States is falling fast.”

Suzan and I have heard this a lot lately.

Real estate prices in the U.S. are becoming more attractive thanks to the huge dose of reality injected into the market by the mortgage bubble burst.

But people still keep shopping in Mexico, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil…throughout Latin America. Throughout the world.

“It doesn’t make any difference if you can now get a great deal on a place in the States,” another friend recently said. “You still can’t afford to live in it. And you sure won’t make any money on it in the near future if you try to sell it.”

C

Outside the States, we’ve seen real estate prices in almost every market appreciating 10, 20, 30, even 50 percent a year for the past decade.
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This is why investment in DR makes such good sense. They will bulldose the the MacMansions in the US,, people coming from the States will be able to afford to send their children to a good school, university, in DR, Venz, Russia, Spain et al. Some will go back to work for 4 month stints staying in their cars, trailers etc. They will have a real life in places such as the DR.
S.

US people except GC are rapidly getting 'real' - Harvard fees 47,ooo dollars / year - Moscow 3,000 many other countries free or under 3000.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/....s_and_americas/article2137535.ece
S.

did you go to Harvbard wanker

Hey man don't you like International Living? Is it socialist or communist?
S.

I'm just saying it is great for Venez and others to invest in DR!
S.

The Venezuelan government is NOT investing in this project, it is a PRIVATE investment. Now get real.

he is an idiot....pay no attention

it's good to see people from puerto rico finally revealing themselves, makes the converstaions alot more interesting, now where are the hatians.,

I'm sure the Venez government has a hand in this somewhere. The investors are influential.
DR has become the Abu Dhabi of the Caribb - huge investment potential. One of the top ten hot-spots in the World!
http://internationalpropertyinves....erty-investment-hotspots-for-2008
This site has DR as number 4 but maybe for 2009! US has definitely dropped off the bottom of this list for 2009. US investors are moving out of US.
Sarah Palin has the quote of the Year but was misquoted by Fey as "I can see Russia from my house!"
Russia now has direct flight to DR.
As has been reported in Dominican Today Russians are buyng!
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....-buyers-eyeing-Dominican-Republic
GC take note- as a World Caviar expert and salesman and Prima Donna in all things ready the stock of caviar!
S.
S.

Lionel,

Fix the roads take a shovel to them!

This is killing the country just stop fighting with the hotels over money and taxes and finish the road already.

TFISKE, for a guy who has so much lip about the goings-on in the Dominican Republic, the least you could do is to get the spelling of the President's name correct. it does not become you when you misspell his name, and you appear more to be the Ugly Canadian you really are. the name of the president is LEONEL. stop looking even more ignorant than you are.

ABC y Trujillo....ha ha ha, lol, hee hee hee

You guys are so out to lunch...it is voters like you that keep these twats in power.

Lol..oh my gosh....my sides are splitting 'cause I can't even fathom how ignorant you are.....these people are stealing you blind and laughing about it. I fu@&nig drink whisky with these people and you can't even imagine how they make fun of chopos like you that keep defending them....

DReads,

U just don't get it man!

finish the road ... then I will spell it correct!

its ok, TFISKE, i understand. 60 degree below freezing temperatures have ossified whatever little brain matter you started with. which do you think will happen first? the finishing of the road, or you learning to spell LEONEL?

Dreads

Lionel..... the train ever heard of it bone head! Metro is running now lets get the roads done.

Dreads, who are you blaming for your sad life today?

the only person on earth i could blame for my misery would be you. hopefully, as a gift to me for the Yuletide, please jump head first into a wood chipper. you sit up in some stinking trailer in the frozen Yukon, declaring yourself the idea police; anyone who dares speak out against any aspect of tourism has to listen to your methamphetamine induced rants. i do not answer to asswipes like you; as GC would say "there is a train leaving in 30 minutes; be under it!

besides, TFISKE, does it not strike you as a little bit odd that everyone else on the board is wishing everyone else a merry christmas, and that you are the only one spoiling for a fight? then you call me "miserable"? we are all merry , looking forward to a happy Yuletide, expressing cheerful greetings. but, nobody remembers you; you stink! go cry in your moonshine. break a nine iron on your shins, you rube. when you have done all that, go play in traffic. i will watch the news outlets for bulletins of your demise.

There will be a good sujpply of mincemeat this XMas - husky dogs will love it and fight over it. Wear your Che tea shirts in the snow!.
Watch historic movies of the people's struggle!
Heroic struggle of the Russian people!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO7ZWfvCjBE
S.

Opening started at 11 AM, and we were waiting the President until 1 P.M. then I had to leave, haven't seen Leonel. Mr. Frank Rainieri came around Noon. Very nice inauguration, champagne was served.

Project Vista Cana, a new Golf course, will start the phase one, where it will be an artificial lake.
Garden View Apartments Vista Cana starting at 102,000 USD$
Sun Terrace Vista Cana Apartments from 146,000 USD$
Vista Golf Condominiums from 153,000 USD$
Vista ABC Homes from 248,000 USD$
Coral Golf Villas Vista Cana from 259,000 USD$
Vista Golf Townhomes from 263,000 USD$
More information at http://www.dominicanremax.com and http://www.realestatepuntacana.com

Prices now sound better in Euro!
S.

Milos unless you were being facetious I to have a great deal of respect for Senor Rainieri and his dream for Punta Cana ......Tell the studio audience at home what these golfcourse residences would be selling for even in a depressed economy Milos if they were located in Naples or Boynton Beach or St Petes

Mr. Rainieri created the Punta Cana, so we all would not be here if he was not following his dream. I have a great respect for Mr. Rainieri as well, and the way how he is managing the business, should be a good example for all of us.

Opportunity for new upcoming resorts in development is the low price, not only for investment but acquiring a home under the real market price during a pre construction.

Properties in Vista Cana are following a perfect procedure in the purchase, they are dealing with Stewart Title, a leading provider of title insurance and related services to the real estate and mortgage industries. http://www.stewart.com/

Golf courses will have 27 holes comparing with the Golf at Boynton Beach located between Hypoluxo Rd. and Gateway Blvd. Palm Beach county, Florida. (18 holes).

So lets compare a new constructions for Boynton Beach and Vista Cana:
Vista ABC homes (a Florida Model Homes) 248,000 USD$ to 320,000 USD$ Vista Cana
Boynton Waters, 339,000 to 965,

Escada Estates at Tiburon, Naples FLorida from 700,000 USD$ to 4 millions.

Moorings Country Club, Naples, from 800,000 USD$ to 6.3 millions.

Cypress Woods, Naples from 300,000 USD$

Pelican Marsh, Naples from 500,000 to 2 millions.

And yes you can buy a wooden house in St Petes for 150,000 USD$...

Then the second little pig built himself a house of sticks. It was stronger than the house of straw.

The second little pig was very pleased with his house. He said, "Now the wolf won't catch me and eat me."

"I shall build a stronger house than yours," said the third little pig.

and josean went ouee ouee ouee all the way home.....he was the always whining and complaining piggy

or the PRD piggy