Punta Cana.– With over $6.5 billion in new mega resort
developments covering a combined 33,000 acres, the Dominican Republic's (DR) East
Coast has indelibly transformed into the quintessential destination for golf.
New championship golf courses, marinas and luxury resort
accommodations being developed will enhance a dozen well-known and loved
existing championship golf courses, igniting golf tourism and transforming the
area into the new international 'It' destination for golf.
Luxury developments
like Roco Ki and Cap Cana will feature phase one openings this year and many
more golf courses, upscale hotel properties and marinas are planned over the
next 12 years.
"Our vision to grow the DR's East Coast into an upscale
golfer's paradise is unfolding with great care to preserve and showcase the
area's pristine beauty and eco-diversity," said Minister of Tourism Felix
Jimenez.
"The DR has invested $400 million in tourism infrastructure and
plans to add $1 billion more in developments such as new highways, road signs
and other enhancements by 2012. These efforts encourage visitors to experience
the DR with ease and savor our marvelous coastlines, lush green golf vistas and
azure seas in year-round tropical weather."
Among the already established golf courses there, the East
Coast also reports an abundant amount of enhancements thoughtfully added to
well-loved championship golf courses located at resorts such as Casa de Campo,
Punta Cana Resort & Golf and more. Well-known designer courses in Punta
Cana and La Romana
boast phenomenal beauty and provide diverse golf that please an established
following and attract many new loyal players.
Moreover, new luxury communities like Cap Cana and Roco Ki
are attracting many prestigious golf and U.S. hotel developments including
Aman, Four Seasons, the Fairmont, Ritz Carlton and Westin luxury brand hotels.
The East Coast area received 44 percent of the record-breaking first quarter
2008 visitor arrivals at the DR's busiest airport, Punta Cana International
Airport.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
O my here come the horrible exploiters why cant we be more like Cuba instead of these little jobs for maids and gardeners the people should be living in these condos .....lets throw the exploiters out
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
these are people who are arriving with large wads of cash, and who, by virtue of the strength of wealth, can change the social, political and cultural landscape, in their favor. they can buy ordinances to restrict entry of locals into their ¨gated communities..they can restrict locals from access to beaches. they can monopolise certain employment opportunities, restricting them to their friends and compatriots. these are not theoretical insights; these are things i witnessed on a daily basis in the DR. in the main, the only benefits accrue to the newly arrived, while the locals get a few jobs as maids and gardeners. .....DOWN WITH THE EXPLOITERS
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 10:15 AM
From: United States, Texas
"O my here come the horrible exploiters why cant we be more like Cuba instead of these little jobs for maids and gardeners the people should be living in these condos .....lets throw the exploiters out," GC rants and babbles vociferously like a permanent resident of Bedlam or of the top floor of Bellevue's nut house.
oooo
Will any of the $6.5 B trickle down to the Dominican people.
Is there a difference between trickling down and being pissed on?
Increasingly with all-inclusive concept, will any of this $6.5 B spill over to the Dominican middle class, since all-inclusiveness means Dominican-free or no Dominicans wanted or in and out of the country without contact with the locals, including the local middle class, trying hustle a dollar.
What is the point of development if you don't get developed, too?
Making foreigners happy?
Worse, this $6.5 B development is another way of saying $6.5 B in new foreign debt with the tax-collecting DR state as surety.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Resident commie stooge....... this is not cuban style all inclusive cheeseball hotels we are talking about....this is super deluxe with marinas and golf courses and yes upper middle class Dominicans will be well represented in ownership and the people will have many jobs and small business will thrive and mutiply.....Moreover, new luxury communities like Cap Cana and Roco Ki are attracting many prestigious golf and U.S. hotel developments including Aman, Four Seasons, the Fairmont, Ritz Carlton and Westin luxury brand hotels. .....YOU SEE NOT CHEESEBALL ALL INCLUSIVE.......like cuba
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
A message for belial I will pass it on.....Glorious news from our brothers in Zimbabwe. After Comrade Mugabe took the main means of agriculture and production away from the hated evil White Christian Male and redistributed them to the poor suffering hard working native population of Zimbabwe, glorious things have been happening! It is proof positive how the evil hated white kapitalist pig dog christian male scum have oppressed peoples for far too long, and how once liberated from this oppression, they can achieve more and be better workers and citizens than the evil hated white kapitalist pig dog chirstian scum.....Commie stooge your leader has spoken
From: United States
First off, most of the projects are owned by dominicans (at least the biggest ones like Cap Cana and Roco Ki). Second, it will help the DR bc of the taxes they are taxed starting off when they pay the airfare taxes (which goes directly to paying off the foreign debt); this will create thousands of jobs that were not there before; many of these projects will also be building communities (homes) and schools where the workers will be given basic education, learn other languages, and hospitality skills. And this is not even paid by the gov. After a few years of these projects already in existence, they will be handsomely taxed, helping the economy grow even more.
If you're so convinced that this is not development then you obviously think that tourism in general is not development but now imagine if we were to eliminate it, do u really think we'll b better off? get real belial.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
He aint the only dumbass
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 11:11 AM
From: United States, Texas
"If you're so convinced that this is not development then you obviously think that tourism in general is not development but now imagine if we were to eliminate it, do u really think we'll b better off? get real belial."
oooo
Criticism of a model of financing and benefit distribution is far from a rejection of the thing itself or the thing in general. For example, given the size of this business, more than just Dominican employees and neighbors of the resorts should see the benefits.
The "owners" better not be late for one bond payment or he will discover who owns these joints.
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 11:16 AM
From: United States, Texas
"He aint the only dumbass"
0000
You should be straightjacketed, medicated, and electrocuted.
GC slobbers everyday for the Dominican Republic. Oh, how he puts on!
But nothing would please this two-face more than if the DR lost its quota of heavily discounted oil from Venezuela as a result of a counter-revolution by the pro-US imperialist trash in Venezuela that constitutes the bourgeois opposition to the glorious Venezuelan Revolution with its growing proletarian content and democratic form.
The first thing that the pro-imperialist trash would do after a counter-revolution is to dump Petrocaribe in the same can in which the trash itself resides. The second thing is to once again donate all of the oil wealth of Venezuela to the US imperialists, forgetting about Caribbean neighbors.
GC is the kind of friend who hides his dagger until you turn your back to him and then "bingo" and "How do you feel now?" ... "What's that in your back?" ... "Can I do something?"
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
How do you feel now ......ask the people in Caracas who find less and less on the store shelves everyday and say to themselves wow did we make a mistake electing that idiot hugo...He is giving all our money away to promote his goofball economic theories and the rest is going to FARC guerillas and to support his new secret police....why are we worse off now than before
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 11:59 AM
From: United States, Texas
"And the rest is going to FARC guerillas," the reactionary GC excretes.
oooo
Long Live the glorious fighters of FARC, the legitmate representative of the Colombian people.
Victory over the imperialists and the imperialist quislings is assured and imminent.
By the way, GC, these imperialist quislings of the repressive Bogota regime contacted Shell and offered to buy the refinery.
What was that about?
Have you heard anything from your reactionary comrades?
What was Uribe ... who is rather cunning ... up to?
Perhaps it was: If the DR runs on oil like other countries, then the DR largely runs on the Shell refinery because the refinery is the only one in the DR worth mentioning since the tiny Falconbridge thing hardly supplies enough fuel for its mining operations.
But why didn't Uribe want the whole refinery to fall into the hands of the Dominican state? Hmm.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
stay on subject fool we are talking about the great resorts of the Punta Cana region unparalleled in Cuba the Caribbean Gulag....where they get new rice cookers for 7 months pay you stooge and cuban bootlicker
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 12:25 PM
From: United States, Texas
"stay on subject fool we are talking about the great resorts of the Punta Cana region unparalleled in Cuba the Caribbean Gulag....where they get new rice cookers for 7 months pay you stooge and cuban bootlicker"
oooo
""stay on subject!"
From you!
The champion of rambling.
Why you haven't even mentioned golf, because no course will allow you to hold a club even with a large bottle of prozac dangling on a string from your shirt pocket.
Now, take that picture of the course above. It looks like either a photo or an artist sketch. There's something too perfect about it.
In either case, it's most likely either a Greg or Jack's product.
The minimalism of the design smacks more of Greg than Jack.
Written by: Jander, 14 Jun 2008 12:35 PM
From: Dominican Republic
I vote we have DT Golf tournament between GC and Belial.
They would have to use kiddie plastic golf clubs so they don't beat the hell out of each other.
My comment on this article is that 6.5 billion is a good thing and it will trickle down and help feed a lot of families for many years to come.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Jander since he is always identifying with the workers belial will have the honour of carrying my clubs...the training will stand him in good sted for when cuba opens its first golf course since the revolution in about five years....What am I* saying the rotten structure will have collapsed by then and they will be building many golf courses in the new free Cuba ....VIVA CUBA LIBRE....bellial will have to continue on his Thorazine medication
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 12:46 PM
From: United States, Texas
GC with a club in his hand is more lethal than a drug-energized US Marine in a Baghdad hospital ward with a bayonet.
I would rather go shooting ducks with Dick Cheney.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Commie stooge they will release the hounds on you if you come anywhere near the property we dont want your ilk and stripe around here with civilized folks not even as a caddy so stay away or we will tie you to the 50 yard marker on the driving range for the day
Written by: Jander, 14 Jun 2008 3:24 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Belial you can blame Bush's adminsitration and "Bad Intel" on the situation in Irak and I will never argue with you.
However I suggest you keep your comments about our soldiers to yourself. As long as your profile says "From the United States"
My son and several of my freinds and relatives kids have been serving their country as they promised and live in fear 24 hours a day. If a few snap well thats the "Casualties of War"
I hope I have made my self very clear.
Do you understand?
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 4:22 PM
From: United States, Texas
I understand that there ample and strong evidence to support the findings of John Hopkins University that over 650,000 Iraqis had died from war-related caualties by October 2006.
http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles....nals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdfAs a consequence of the despicable "surge" in murder, I believe there's ample and strong evidence to support the findings of the reputable UK research firm Opinion Research Business that the US aggression and occupation had occasioned the deaths of over 1.2 milion Iraqi citizens by September 2007.
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78 I submit at the 2007 pace of killing, over 2,000,000 Iraqi citizens by now have perished as a result of the US aggression and occupation.
Thus, the existence of this holocaust may embarrass some of the US participants and advocates of the massive program of human slaughter, but this embarassment, if any, is a sign of hope that the slaughter may be stopped.
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 4:31 PM
From: United States, Texas
Plus, I strongy oppose the contention or suggestion that the US aggression and occupation of Iraq is the result of "bad intelligence." The savage bloodthirsty Bush regime deliberately lied the United States of America into war contrary to the good intelligence the regime received showing that Iraq didn't posses WMDs or was in any way complicit in 9/11.
The US regime made the intelligence " bad" by misrepresenting what the intelligence stated.
The cop-out about bad intelligence is a trick to make a policy that was fully calculated seem to be an accident. Bush and Cheney lied. Two-thirds of the US people believe they lied. Almost the whole world knows they lied.
"Oh dear, we've killed 2,000,0000 people by accident."
"Will you stop the accident now ?"
"Oh no, the accident must continue."
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
they should have dropped you through the trap door with Sadam
Written by: Belial, 14 Jun 2008 4:51 PM
From: United States, Texas
"they should have dropped you through the trap door with Sadam"
oooo
I don't like golf ... so bourgeois ... but I go to the course to enjoy the gossip.
There's no better place for it.
But the pool room, now, that's something else.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
doesnt your sexual orientation get in the way of your politics...I mean does that stuff go over down at the Ripchord
From: Afghanistan, BAF
It would be nice except for all the filthy poor people you have to drive around to get there Tsk Tsk
From: Dominican Republic
Perhaps it is in its infancy,,,,but I don't see a ton of high roller headed to the DR to fulfill thier week in the sun. In fact, I am here in POP right now having beers with some local gringos...and we mentioned a certain high end resort....it sits empty.
Until the DR presents itself as a diversified location with class...it is likely that the $1,400 per night rooms will remain empty. Love to be proved wrong,,,,but I do not see a change for some time yet.
As they say...clothing does not make the person..and the DR has a lot of growing up before it attracts those other thatn money launderers and well...you know
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Mike..... Ritz will not sit empty or it will be the only empty Ritz in the world likewise Fairmont or Four Seasons or Banyan Tree...they are totally new game and they do their homework ...It is in infancy....listen these places represent destinations of prestige within themselves they have their own constituents that is their background ....Like I said .....You aint seen nuthin yet....The chains that have been operating in the DR with few exceptions have been more or less Cheeseball compared to the above and a couple others that are not yet opened....The Nicklaus course just opened a few months ago give it a little time....What Is Name of certain high end resort that is empty? ...and it is summer
From: Afghanistan, BAF
Beleial,
Yes our boys are trained killers ! That's what the U.S. Marine corps and armed svcs. does . And as you pointed out in you little statistics slide show they are extremely efficiant at it :) As long as we wipe 'em out faster than they breed we WILL win eventually , till then Happy Hunting
SEMPER FI !!!
From: Afghanistan, BAF
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Will any of the $6.5 B trickle down to the Dominican people.
Is there a difference between trickling down and being pissed on?
Increasingly with all-inclusive concept, will any of this $6.5 B spill over to the Dominican middle class, since all-inclusiveness means Dominican-free or no Dominicans wanted or in and out of the country without contact with the locals, including the local middle class, trying hustle a dollar.
What is the point of development if you don't get developed, too?
Making foreigners happy?
Worse, this $6.5 B development is another way of saying $6.5 B in new foreign debt with the tax-collecting DR state as surety.
If you're so convinced that this is not development then you obviously think that tourism in general is not development but now imagine if we were to eliminate it, do u really think we'll b better off? get real belial.
oooo
Criticism of a model of financing and benefit distribution is far from a rejection of the thing itself or the thing in general. For example, given the size of this business, more than just Dominican employees and neighbors of the resorts should see the benefits.
The "owners" better not be late for one bond payment or he will discover who owns these joints.
0000
You should be straightjacketed, medicated, and electrocuted.
GC slobbers everyday for the Dominican Republic. Oh, how he puts on!
But nothing would please this two-face more than if the DR lost its quota of heavily discounted oil from Venezuela as a result of a counter-revolution by the pro-US imperialist trash in Venezuela that constitutes the bourgeois opposition to the glorious Venezuelan Revolution with its growing proletarian content and democratic form.
The first thing that the pro-imperialist trash would do after a counter-revolution is to dump Petrocaribe in the same can in which the trash itself resides. The second thing is to once again donate all of the oil wealth of Venezuela to the US imperialists, forgetting about Caribbean neighbors.
GC is the kind of friend who hides his dagger until you turn your back to him and then "bingo" and "How do you feel now?" ... "What's that in your back?" ... "Can I do something?"
oooo
Long Live the glorious fighters of FARC, the legitmate representative of the Colombian people.
Victory over the imperialists and the imperialist quislings is assured and imminent.
By the way, GC, these imperialist quislings of the repressive Bogota regime contacted Shell and offered to buy the refinery.
What was that about?
Have you heard anything from your reactionary comrades?
What was Uribe ... who is rather cunning ... up to?
Perhaps it was: If the DR runs on oil like other countries, then the DR largely runs on the Shell refinery because the refinery is the only one in the DR worth mentioning since the tiny Falconbridge thing hardly supplies enough fuel for its mining operations.
But why didn't Uribe want the whole refinery to fall into the hands of the Dominican state? Hmm.
oooo
""stay on subject!"
From you!
The champion of rambling.
Why you haven't even mentioned golf, because no course will allow you to hold a club even with a large bottle of prozac dangling on a string from your shirt pocket.
Now, take that picture of the course above. It looks like either a photo or an artist sketch. There's something too perfect about it.
In either case, it's most likely either a Greg or Jack's product.
The minimalism of the design smacks more of Greg than Jack.
They would have to use kiddie plastic golf clubs so they don't beat the hell out of each other.
My comment on this article is that 6.5 billion is a good thing and it will trickle down and help feed a lot of families for many years to come.
I would rather go shooting ducks with Dick Cheney.
However I suggest you keep your comments about our soldiers to yourself. As long as your profile says "From the United States"
My son and several of my freinds and relatives kids have been serving their country as they promised and live in fear 24 hours a day. If a few snap well thats the "Casualties of War"
I hope I have made my self very clear.
Do you understand?
http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles....nals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf
As a consequence of the despicable "surge" in murder, I believe there's ample and strong evidence to support the findings of the reputable UK research firm Opinion Research Business that the US aggression and occupation had occasioned the deaths of over 1.2 milion Iraqi citizens by September 2007.
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78
I submit at the 2007 pace of killing, over 2,000,000 Iraqi citizens by now have perished as a result of the US aggression and occupation.
Thus, the existence of this holocaust may embarrass some of the US participants and advocates of the massive program of human slaughter, but this embarassment, if any, is a sign of hope that the slaughter may be stopped.
The US regime made the intelligence " bad" by misrepresenting what the intelligence stated.
The cop-out about bad intelligence is a trick to make a policy that was fully calculated seem to be an accident. Bush and Cheney lied. Two-thirds of the US people believe they lied. Almost the whole world knows they lied.
"Oh dear, we've killed 2,000,0000 people by accident."
"Will you stop the accident now ?"
"Oh no, the accident must continue."
oooo
I don't like golf ... so bourgeois ... but I go to the course to enjoy the gossip.
There's no better place for it.
But the pool room, now, that's something else.
Until the DR presents itself as a diversified location with class...it is likely that the $1,400 per night rooms will remain empty. Love to be proved wrong,,,,but I do not see a change for some time yet.
As they say...clothing does not make the person..and the DR has a lot of growing up before it attracts those other thatn money launderers and well...you know
Yes our boys are trained killers ! That's what the U.S. Marine corps and armed svcs. does . And as you pointed out in you little statistics slide show they are extremely efficiant at it :) As long as we wipe 'em out faster than they breed we WILL win eventually , till then Happy Hunting
SEMPER FI !!!