Hey dread here is the future...... they dont look like maids and gardeners to me....I applaud this school and I bet their largest supporters are the industry...not the government

They are not maids and gardeners but not exactly representative of the DR population either, just check how much a semester costs at PUCMM (and on top of that there are all the obligatory trips and excursions the student has to pay for, books, etc etc). Studying a Tourism career is not affordable for the average Dominican, especially at universities like PUCMM.

nemo there is no free lunch.... hotel school is a top profession ...ie Cornell or Michigan State Americas two best cost 30 thousand and up per year ....let us be thankful we have one to grow....even the Culinary Institute of America is 25 thousand....the rewards are worth it

I am not suggesting that it should be free, but for a key industry like Tourism in the DR the access to a career in that field should be more accessible to talented students, not just for rich students. Our "University of the average Dominican" (UASD) has clearly dropped the ball on this very important industry for our country.

very true Nemo the government should pouring money into this school since thats where the frigging jobs are ....but no they are training engineers to emigrate etc or other skills that have no jobs in the country

PUCMM runs about $1000 USD a semester, UTESA $350 and UASD is 'free'. The problem with UASD is that a course that normally takes 4 years can take 6-7 at UASD. Too many canceled classes, canceled trips, canceled laboratory sessions, the professors not showing up, missing suplies...

A UTESA graduate nobody wants as they practically are giving their diplomas away as long as you pay and show up sometimes; the UASD program is.... well... there is no program really, as explained by the previous poster. That leaves PUCMM and some smaller institutions like UNIBE, which teach well but are simply too expensive for the average Dominican.

You are missing UNAPEC..... Frank Rainieri graduated in this University and he is the most important Dominican entrepreneur in the tourism sector.

mr dom thank you for brining this great visionary's name up ...I bet he is one the biggest supporters of the hotel schools as he should be...He is an inspiration to tourism in this country..

How many ignorant posters on this thread, the same thing happens in the U.S. and other country's. Who you think gets the better jobs a person that graduates from a CUNY based college or someone that graduates from Princeton University? I say the Princeton grad will get the better wage the better position, sad state of affairs money matters.

Archie many community colleges graduate competent employees in the Hospitality industry Johnson Wales and Culinary Institute of America started out as small schools

Funny i have a friend that works for the CUNY system in New York, and he told me how bad the colleges are funded where all supplies are scarce. It's so bad you got teachers sneaking on each other's rooms stealing chalk thats pretty bad.

none of this is helped by the fact that the ministry of education just revealed that the graduate scholarship program hs been suspended, because of lack of funds in the 2009 budget. it simply means that less of the people who are not from families with auspicious financial firepower, will be able to attend schools which offer hospitality and tourism management. maybe, a few less deputy ministers, and some youngsters would get a headstart in life. and, i agree with nemo; that photograph does not look anything like a representative sample of the country!

I agree not enough white people correct dread ..... These schools should be a high priority and funded with as much government help as possible ...But I bet most of it comes from the private sector and the hospitality industry itself as usual

as nemo states, education should be more egalitarian. the fact that there is a correlation between wealth, accessibility, opportunity, and power, and COLOR in the country, is not something which can be denied. it is not the fault of anybody in the picture, just a reality of most societies.

America the worlds best hope

it is slowly changing for the better ask Obama and his wife or Vernon Jordan of the previous generation

i cannot argue that one. i always said that at least they try to change things. it is almost as if the rest of the country is beginning to see the rabid racists as a curiosity. if only europe would take notes, instead of sitting on some high moral and intellectual ground, looking down upon america as a land of obese redneck louts. yet, i hardly recall any recent instances wherein black athletes have had to duck bananas in Yankee Stadium.

Dreadlocks that picture represents part of the ethnic and racial make up of my country, what you want to see a bunch of haitians LOL.

Dread that has always been the case and Canadians as well with their Holier than thou attitudes America is Mankinds best hope

at least the euros are open with their racism. Canadians act as though they are above that sort of thing, what with being so civilised and all that. yet , they are every bit as racist as the euros. they just wait until they think no one is looking, or hearing. the US is as good as it gets when it comes to trying to deal with this boil on the backside of mankind

you are absolutely correct dread ....I have seen it from many angles

I think you're the racist, your view is abstract at best. By the way are you an angry african american that believes in afro-centrism, i have a question for you. If so much knowledge gave birth in one continent rendering intelligence to others, why is Africa so poor. Especially those nations governed by blacks?

arkatype, go read some books on other subjects besides the history of hispaniola. you have a formidable knowledge about every butterfly and ant that lived on this island, but your knowledge seems to stop there. go and read "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", by Walter Rodney, among others. the tenor of your posting seems to suggest some genetic deficiencies among africans, especially in the department of intellect. that being the case, can you explain how they could have achieved such marvels of engineering as the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Gizeh? knowledge is a continuum; it did not start with europeans. the white man did not invent knowledge and science; he built on it. africans were communicating with drums long before Apple came out with I phones. people build on knowledge, and, by constructive destruction, improve on what was there before. you only believe that black people have not contributed to modernisation because you have not read about things black people invented

and developed. most people attribute open heart surgery to a white doctor, but it was a black orderly who actually did the surgery, and worked out the problems. things like the traffic light, and other black inventions, are credited to white people because of the nature of society in the USA at the time. you have to realise that slavery was not officially abolished in some southern states until the 1980s

It's amazing how some people can willfully ignore the harm that european colonialism made to Africa, dread. How they buy the tale about Europe's "civilizing effort" on that continent when it's a fact that the majority of the current wars over there have their origin on the arbitrary drawing of the borders that europeans did to the ancestral lands of the tribes over there in order to better control the resources and populations of the respective regions. One of the saddest tales over there is the way that the Belgian monarchy manipulated the Hutus and Tutsis into slaying each other.

Lautaro that is old news and speculative at best ....explain the moral bankruptcy of these alleged democracies and Comrade Bob.....this is a scandal that has to be corrected by Africans and they continue to sit on their hands ...please explain Comrade Lautaro....and show us some light on the dark continent except for the one country that denounced Comrade Bob there isnt any ...correct me if I am wrong

Why don't you explain to us the senseless support of Downing Street to that regime instead, Goulet? after all, you're still a subject of Her Imperial Majesty, so you should have a better grasp of the goings on over there than any of us.

A good book to read about european imperialism is "Empire" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt.

ancient history Comrade Lautaro let us talk today today Comrade Bob is the new Idi Amin how can you defend him .....correct me if I am wrong ......From a speech yesterday by Bob " Mugabe described Brown and Bush as "crooks" who are "guilty of deliberate lies in order to commit acts of aggression.

"We are hearing words from the white lips of regimes with a cruel history of imperialism and the blatant dehumanization of our people," he said. " this is the same horse puckey Castro and Chavez pull allthe time

I'm not defending him, what I'm implying is that the only reason that the US hasn't got heavily involved over there is that Mugabe's regime have the covert support of the british gov., despite the signals and posturing from Mugabe and Downing Street for the contrary, no more no less. Heck, the guy was even knighted for God's sake!!

ancient history Lautaro in the old days everyone thought this guy was somebody else