Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.- Public Works minister Victor Diaz Rúa headed the groundbreaking for the construction of the cruise ship terminal and shopping plaza in the Atlantic coast city, at a cost of more than US$27 million (RD$1.0 billion).
Diaz Rúa said the work will begin immediately so Puerto Plata can count with a cruise ship port, whose tourism activities have been agreed with the business leaders in the north coast, so that boats of all sizes may dock there.
He said there’s no reason for that province, which maintains its great tourism potential, not to receive maritime tourism, as in the three previous decades. “President Fernandez has let us know that Puerto Plata must again count on the cruise ships so that it continues developing its marine tourism.”
Accompanying Diaz Rúa were the senator Francisco Vargas; mayor Walter Musa; Tourism vice minister Cesar de los Santos; the business leaders Abraham Selman and Rafael (Kuki) Silverio and Public Works vice minister Porfirio Brito.
From: United States
They'll screw it up.
Pathologically corrupt.
Can't think past he end of their nose.
Written by: ateo2010 
, 26 Apr 2010 9:04 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Owning Noobs
PP needs this project!
Written by: xwill7, 26 Apr 2010 10:41 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
sanky will be waiting
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Let's hope they can organize and cleanup their act: get the motoconios away, put prices on souvenirs in gift shops, make sure the hookers stay in the Cristal, clean the water and caniadas (sorry no enie), don't overkill with prices, get police that speak English and maybe, maybe it will work.
Of course Selman and Silverio were there: they get all the lucrative government business in POP and overshoot the budgets eeeeeevery time. And they come back for more.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I only hope the government has spoken to the cruise ship companies as to whether they will use any dock there ..it would be a waste of money if they refused to change their current routes and schedules to embrace another port in the DR .
I totally agree that Puerto Plata needs something to give it a lift but I wonder if all the feasibility studies for a cruise ship dock stack up . I rather agree with Water Polo that the main problem is the run down nature of the area . In the east , the tourism boost has not been so much associated with cruise ships but with golf courses and the improved standards of the hotels.
Any area that tourists find unsatisfactory is now quickly passed by as the news spreads so quickly by the internet ..and the reason why the Puerta Plata area recently has not been enjoying the success of the east is because too many tourists have complained about it .
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Rico..
...and tour operators wont't sell it.
Written by: xwill7, 26 Apr 2010 11:44 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Too many illegal kids roaming around begging and trying to sell you garbage items that will send you to the toilet... It really kills the buzz at the beach
Written by: ElProfe , 26 Apr 2010 1:58 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Jarabacoa
The cruise ship out of Miami stopped going to PP years ago because 95% for the tourist were complaining about all the hookers and drugs. That is why they all go around to PC now.
Clean Up the HOOKERS and the Drugs and they will come!
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
We all seem to agree what the problem is
Written by: xwill7, 26 Apr 2010 3:32 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
The mountains in the background does look alot better than plan o flat punta cana... Puerto Plata has a chance to make a comback...
From: United States, NJ
the project to build megga port near by in montecrisiti sounds more logical
to me with foreign investments. it will bring goods to the cibao region as
well as forcing them to build dual heavy gage rairoad tracks to hold the
waight.
tourism sounds romantic and nice but puerto plata would need lots of
dredgging and under water rifs for a 110,000 tons ship to dock.
as some one mentioned before getting rid of the drugs and prostitutes as
well as the illegal kids would be a big project by itself
i remember as a kid they needed (pilots)special knowledge captains to bring
ships into port,maybe all that has changed.
also some one pointed out about multilingual police needed, adding to that
as is the milan airport (italy). skills would be needed as well to provide hotel
jobs, if it is going to be as atractive as p.c.
i remember seeing such ports in chile,argentina,,uruguay,brazil just to show
you, it goes together cargo, tourism .education.
From: United States
Actually the cruise ships stopped coming to PP when they told by the 'authorities' that everything had been cleaned up.
Then one of the cruise ship's side thruster sucked up a refrigerator causing 100's thousand in damage and the Dominicans pulled their macho mentality bullshit and refused to pay for the damage.
What a bunch of shortsighted retards.
Written by: ElChico, 7 May 2010 12:57 PM
From: United States
About time they threw a bone the way of the province of my family. This is good for Puerto Plata.
From: United States, NJ
This was published back in April and it is almost the end of the year 2010. What do they call imediate work ?after the elections? By now all the work that was planned should have been at the completion stage for Christmass. I don't think the project would ever get off the ground, because it is not to the CAPITALENOS'S benefit and interest. They want everything to go thru Snto Domingo de Guzman.
Those provinces will never have certain amount of autonomy, will always be dependent on the DR so call parlament appointed by the prersident same as in Venezuela,nor will they let them have revenues for capital projects unless the IMF or W/B lend the paramount money for the infrastructures, no matter how small they are.
They better start looking somewhere else for funding such as the international community and have the projects managed thru construction as well as after constrction to pay for itself .If youy know what i mean.....
From: United States, NJ
As for peddlers,it is done thruout the entire Antilles minor as well as major",in a more organized way. I know i just came from there 3/28/11-4/11/11.DR has a lot to learn from them as to how to treat outsiders meaning tourists. These were the ports of call: ARUBA,CURACAO,GRENADA,BARBADOS,ST.VINCENT/GRENADINES,ST.KITTS/NEVIS,
ST THOMAS,VIRGIN ISLANDS/USA,STO.DOMINGO,PRINCESSCAYS,BAHAMAS.
I loved those islands under 'The British Commonwealth,'people are friendly and geared towards tourism,since they depend on it ,as well as the one under the Dutch protectorate.These people don't have "a chip on their showlders" as the North Americans people of color do.They are clean and educated. Maybe am dealing with people of diferent culture even as of AFRICAN background.
I noticed something about them- are all run by Parishes instead of provinces as DR is and very
little central govt influece.
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Pathologically corrupt.
Can't think past he end of their nose.
Of course Selman and Silverio were there: they get all the lucrative government business in POP and overshoot the budgets eeeeeevery time. And they come back for more.
I totally agree that Puerto Plata needs something to give it a lift but I wonder if all the feasibility studies for a cruise ship dock stack up . I rather agree with Water Polo that the main problem is the run down nature of the area . In the east , the tourism boost has not been so much associated with cruise ships but with golf courses and the improved standards of the hotels.
Any area that tourists find unsatisfactory is now quickly passed by as the news spreads so quickly by the internet ..and the reason why the Puerta Plata area recently has not been enjoying the success of the east is because too many tourists have complained about it .
...and tour operators wont't sell it.
Clean Up the HOOKERS and the Drugs and they will come!
to me with foreign investments. it will bring goods to the cibao region as
well as forcing them to build dual heavy gage rairoad tracks to hold the
waight.
tourism sounds romantic and nice but puerto plata would need lots of
dredgging and under water rifs for a 110,000 tons ship to dock.
as some one mentioned before getting rid of the drugs and prostitutes as
well as the illegal kids would be a big project by itself
i remember as a kid they needed (pilots)special knowledge captains to bring
ships into port,maybe all that has changed.
also some one pointed out about multilingual police needed, adding to that
as is the milan airport (italy). skills would be needed as well to provide hotel
jobs, if it is going to be as atractive as p.c.
i remember seeing such ports in chile,argentina,,uruguay,brazil just to show
you, it goes together cargo, tourism .education.
Actually the cruise ships stopped coming to PP when they told by the 'authorities' that everything had been cleaned up.
Then one of the cruise ship's side thruster sucked up a refrigerator causing 100's thousand in damage and the Dominicans pulled their macho mentality bullshit and refused to pay for the damage.
What a bunch of shortsighted retards.
Those provinces will never have certain amount of autonomy, will always be dependent on the DR so call parlament appointed by the prersident same as in Venezuela,nor will they let them have revenues for capital projects unless the IMF or W/B lend the paramount money for the infrastructures, no matter how small they are.
They better start looking somewhere else for funding such as the international community and have the projects managed thru construction as well as after constrction to pay for itself .If youy know what i mean.....
ST THOMAS,VIRGIN ISLANDS/USA,STO.DOMINGO,PRINCESSCAYS,BAHAMAS.
I loved those islands under 'The British Commonwealth,'people are friendly and geared towards tourism,since they depend on it ,as well as the one under the Dutch protectorate.These people don't have "a chip on their showlders" as the North Americans people of color do.They are clean and educated. Maybe am dealing with people of diferent culture even as of AFRICAN background.
I noticed something about them- are all run by Parishes instead of provinces as DR is and very
little central govt influece.