Boca Chica still needs heightened law enforcement.
BOCA CHICA, Dominican Republic.- Retailers of the tourism town Boca Chica say minors organized in gangs steal in their businesses and several Tourism Police (Politur) agents have prostitutes worknig for them, newspaper Diario Libre.
Retailers Association president Raul Vallete said crime cannot be fought when those charged with fighting it are involved. He said the minors steal in stores and mug foreigners and locals who visit the beach, and Politur agents look the other way.
He said Boca Chica’s Tourism Police agents don’t halt prostitution because they have women working for them and asked the Politur chief to transfer the entire staff in that town, for their involvement with that crime, and for failing to control mainly child prostitution.
Libre said its reporters toured Boca Chica at night and as late as 1 a.m. observed dozens of children behind tourists posing as shoe-shine boys in the presence of the police.
"The chaos here in Boca Chica unquestionably benefits the authorities. Right now it’s necessary to change the entire staff, not only is it not doing anything, but they have women working for them," Vallete said.
Diario Libre said buses of the Santo Domingo-Boca Chica route are seen arriving full of women and children in the afternoon, who come to prostitute themselves, mainly with the tourists who go to the beach in the country’s oldest resort town.
From: United States
So where is Franklin Almeyda he assured us there was no child labor int the DR when the sugar cane fields were investigated.
Written by: DaniDr, 7 Jul 2008 11:21 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Crime this crime the other crime that. I'm sick and tired of crime in the DR. Anyone noticed that every single thing in the DR has some kind of relationship with crime? Things are out of control, and people are not afraid of showing it in public cause it's general knowledge that punishment is not a consequence of crime.
Written by: BASTA, 7 Jul 2008 11:47 AM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
Correction, BOCA CHICA better known as BOCA SIDA.
Written by: sangwong 
, 7 Jul 2008 11:47 AM
From: United States
Why single out the DR? There is crime everywhere else .. is there no crime in Europe and North America from where the tourists originate? probably much worse than what happens here in the DR .. statistics anybody .. where are the numbers? show us the numbers to compare .. and what's all the fuss about "child labor"? who has the right to decide whether or not "child labor" should not be used in the DR? where economic opportunities are so limited .. who the heck do these foreign pundits think they are? wake up and smell the coffee dude? the realities here in the DR are very different from those found in the effluent societies of Europe and North America .. the same problems existed in those societies during the early phase of their economic development .. those effluent societies have destroyed much of their own natural resources .. then they go around telling others to conserve their trees .. lay off the DR .. mind your own business.. OK?
Written by: snap3400, 7 Jul 2008 11:55 AM
From: United States
This has been going on for years.
I hope you do clean it up. The next thing on yoiur new agenda is to close Calle Duarte 24/7 and leave it open just for deliveries.
Also get the Motor Conchos under Control. Duarte is a 1 way street.
Written by: DaniDr, 7 Jul 2008 11:55 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
sangwong,
Do you happen to live in DR or Santo Domingo? There is a general disrespect agains authorities, to the point where who knows how many police officers and government officials are involved in criminal activities. Read the news every day and you'll notice how much crime there is in this little island. Even the police and amets get robbed daily, and they're the authority!
And child labour should not be used in the DR or nowwhere if what we are talking about is child prostitution.
From: United States
to sangwong,
You bastard, every child has a right to childhood and a education this is an unalianeable right, and no bastard like you shall ever enslave one for your own gain or in the name that the DR has its own way with children.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
This is great PR for our tourism industry....wing wang wong is crazy or high or both
Written by: Jander, 7 Jul 2008 2:45 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Whee is the DangWong coming from Vietnam?
You are over the top !!
Written by: sangwong , 7 Jul 2008 2:55 PM
From: United States
I have been living in the DR for 8 years .. I am not one of you dreamy arm-chair "fair weather liberals" .. I know what I am talking about .. why don't one of you idiots come and live here for a few years .. let's see if you will still think the same way ..
A few years ago .. a big Bozo that lived in Washington DC hatched a plot to "free" the people of Iraq and Afghanistan .. so far he has killed over 4000 US troops in Iraq alone .. close to 1 million Iraqi civilians are dead or missing and Iraq is in a state of ruin .. as is Afghanistan ..
Keep your ugly American face out of the DR .. you have no business here .. you destroy every country you ever lay your hands on .. you are the modern equivalent of the Hindu God Shiva .. the Destroyer of Worlds .. so don't give us your stupid lecture on "child labor" .. your hands are soiled with the blood of thousands of Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghani children .. you moronic hypocrit ..
From: United States
according this sangwong has no idea of what goes on. he seems to be the devil reincarnated living in the DR. Just like belial he is over the top but mentaly under the bottom of all scum.
sangwong they should throw you in jail and claim you are a child molestor and lets see how long you last.
it is satans like you that allow child prositution and child labor the haenous of crimes go back to the hole you crawled out of.
Written by: sangwong , 7 Jul 2008 3:29 PM
From: United States
Keep your ugly American nose out of our business .. you can barely win a war against poorly equipped insurgents in Iraq .. how do you think you are going to tackle the problems of the DR when you cannot stop your people from snorting all that cocaine .. your Mormon church regularly abuses children .. cases in Utah and Texas .. your soldiers are raping children in the Phillipines and Japan .. are you illiterate? don't you read other news sources? NY Times? LA Times? Houston Chronicle? are you one of those bible thumping, bull humping red necks Okies from Muskogee? Why don't you mind your own business? Fix the unemployment problem and energy crisis in your own country .. fix your broken down electoral process .. replace Bozo the Clown with a real President in the White House .. leave us to mind our own house .. keep your dirty face out of our business .. get it, funny guy?
From: United States
and i thought belial was nuts but here sangwong is just another fruitloop child molestor.
Written by: sangwong , 7 Jul 2008 4:00 PM
From: United States
I only molest consenting females .. preferably those over 21 .. but let's not get thrown off by your little diversionary smoke screen .. you must learn to mind your own bloody business funny guy .. I will show you how to do it .. come down here to Santo Domingo and live with me for a couple of years .. I will teach you the ways of this country .. you will see how people live here .. the challenges they face and how they overcome their obstacles .. you will gain a very profound respect for Dominicans .. you will find them to be a warm, wonderful and caring group of people .. very different from the arrogant and racially divisive people you are accustomed to meeting .. you will then understand why I don't want you messing around with the DR .. I don't want you to destroy the country that I love like life itself .. the country of my children .. leave the DR alone .. OK funny guy?
Written by: DaniDr, 7 Jul 2008 4:10 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
sangwong, under your nick it states you're from United States. Either you're American or live in the USA. Either way chill, no need to shout all that stuff you said, it's pointless and stupid.
By the way, I live in the DR, so I'm not just giving my opinion based on stories, but on personal experience. I liven in Sosua 4 years, and no in Santo Domingo almost 5 years.
Written by: sangwong , 7 Jul 2008 4:32 PM
From: United States
You seem to have a problem with the From: on my posting .. From: United States .. means exactly that .. I am from there .. but that does not mean that I am physically there. So what exactly is your confusion? If they want to know where I am then we need something like Location: Sosua or Location:Santiago or Location: Samana .. but the From: to me means a place of origin .. e.g. From: France or From: Spain or From: Australia .. but it's a moot point because From: can be easily changed in the settings .. it is just like "farting in a gale" .. an English expression .. sort of like passing wind in a 200 mph hurricane .. totally irrelevant and besides the point .. I hope you get my "drift"? Or would you like my GPS coordinates? that might help you find me spooky guy ..
Written by: sangwong , 7 Jul 2008 4:39 PM
From: United States
Excuse me .. this is a public forum .. why are you asking me to shut up? Are you a COMMUNIST? I have a right to air my views .. whether you like them or not .. everybody else is airing theirs .. I am not telling anybody to shut up .. so lets not roll back to those good old days .. when "El Jefe" ran this country .. so let's have a good healthy exchange .. if you cannot stand the heat .. get out of the kitchen Abuelo ..
From: Dominican Republic
I'm flattered that you two feel so much love for my country
From: Iraq, 10 billion dollars a month for nothing
Sangwong is strong with the Force, is any one here Dominican Like then their grandparents and such
From: Iraq, 10 billion dollars a month for nothing
I am flattered as well, I was not born in DR but my parents, grand parents all but one great grand parent was born there. .... SangWong, these guys ain't Dominican.............. they just talk allot of trash
Written by: Banilejo, 7 Jul 2008 7:14 PM
From: United States, Boston- Paya,Bani.
Fired **** and then bring them to justice, its simple as that...
Written by: Jander, 7 Jul 2008 9:59 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Are you equally as flattered that he supports child labor? And from the context of this article I assume he aproves of the child labor that goes in Boca Chica.(unspeakable)
Not Dominican /Married to one for 10 years love it here and respect the culture and the people.
And the US is not paradise but then again you don't see many americans floating on innertubes and styrofoam going to Havana?
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Go easy on Egor 201 formerly chill 201 he ate to much mangu when he was a kid and his mother dropped him on his head as well
From: Dominican Republic
Wow...so much passion and adrenaline from everyone ! (or is it estrigin).
Relax peoples...
Jim and Sang; I'm pretty sure that the both of you can agree that crime is bad. I think, Sang, Jim's point is that you can't just desmiss the bad that goes on in front of you because there is bad everywhere; one should contribute to confront the bad that we see and that is witing our reach to do so, like Jim does, by writing about it on ego-enhancing blogs.....
Written by: sangwong , 8 Jul 2008 10:13 AM
From: United States
For those of you that are seeing impaired or have an acute problem with understanding simple written English .. I am not talking about child prostitution .. let's not try to muddy the issue with all sorts of irrelevant diversions .. I am talking about child labor .. the kid that comes up to wipe the windshield on your car when it stops at a red light at the corner of Charles DeGaulle & San Isidro .. the kids selling candy and food on the street when they should be in school .. these kids are supporting themselves and their families with the money they earn from child labor .. you Americans are not used to seeing this because you live in a relatively affluent society .. where children just eat a lot of junk food and grow fat watching TV .. in the DR our families cannot afford to do that .. work is hard to come by here .. many families depend on sending out as many people to work as possible .. just ordinary work done by children .. let's not get our Puritanical goat all wired up OK?
Written by: danny00, 8 Jul 2008 10:24 AM
From: United States
holla sangwrong.
one gringo that spent 15 years with your {warm, caring, wonderful people}
really sorry for any 8 or 9 year girl that is beautiful, light skin its a real nightmare for her most of the time from her own FATHER. or uncle or other family member. times shes 12 or 13y she out on the street.
Written by: sangwong , 8 Jul 2008 10:26 AM
From: United States
And that is not all .. add to this thinking impairment an arsenal of sophisticated modern weaponry .. and the threat of using that most ultimate of weapons .. a thermo-nuclear device .. threats .. threats .. posturing .. a complete inability to reason correctly .. a pseudo Puritanical-Victorian air of existential self-righteousness .. all in your bloody head .. before we know it .. Dr. Strangelove comes popping out of the woodwork and it is raining bombs all around us .. Bozo The Clown in DC will not sign the treaty to ban cluster bombs .. one of the most devastating pieces of modern artillery every produced in this century .. it has killed and maimed completely innocent women and children in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan .. no matter where used cluster bombs are a terrifying weapon .. and more so in the hands of self-righteous maniacal Americans .. a truly dastardly race of people .. if I may say so ..
From: United States
The fact that a child goes out to shine shoes is not child labor, although the work performed is a form of labor. I had meet many of these children and most do it to help their mothers by bringing in a little extra-cash to feed the family. Most of this kind of work is done in the early hours of the day, some may choose to continued at later hours. The ills of child labors is more to the extreme of using a child for economics gains and exploitations and thats a heavy crime that should carry heavy consecuences. The D.R. does not have that problem cause no company is crazy enough to hire under age children, this is not to say that someone will not but as far as the law is concerned it has not directly observed it. Prostitution is another matter, some tourist expect to see and find young women at those tourist locations, its the reason why they went to D.R. in the first place. The exploitations of women ( boys and girls ) for someone's profits should also be punished.
Written by: danny00, 8 Jul 2008 10:29 AM
From: United States
hola sangwrong.
from one ugly american. why dont you pack your suitcase and leave the united states?
the states was doing fine with out people like you. deal for you i will not come to your great island and you stay out of the states, this way all of you can ROB each other and sell your ladies for a few bucks., sell your drugs to each other.
Written by: sangwong , 8 Jul 2008 11:24 AM
From: United States
The child prostitution problem is universal .. there are dozens of these rings operating in the US right now .. many more in SE Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa .. when one is broken another one takes it's place .. while it is easy to blame tourists for the child protitution problem in the DR and elsewhere .. child prostitutes also cater to the local market .. local men use the services of child prostitutes .. local policemen work in tandem with the children .. they cater to a significant segment of the local elite in the DR .. but it is up to the citizens of the DR to decide whether or not they wish to tackle the problem and exactly how they must proceed .. Americans should concentrate on stopping their invasion and occupation of other countries .. their bombs are maiming and killing more children than will ever be affected by child prostitution .. what their cluster bombs are doing to children all over the world is genocidal. Americans should stop snorting that brain rotting cocaine
From: Dominican Republic
And the US is not paradise but then again you don't see many americans floating on innertubes and styrofoam going to Havana?
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No...but you see a fair number of DR's floating in overstuffed yolas to Puerto Rico. I have often thought it funny that since the Dominicans do not have the political strength of the Cubans in the US...that you hear about every piece of floatsam with a Cuban clinging to it...but hardly a peep about the 1000's of Dominicans who take thier chances on one of the worst bodies of water in the Atlantic basin...the Mona Passage.
Secondly....do paper routes in North America count as child labour???? How about lawn cutting??? What about on the farm.....should a 10 year old help with chores????
In 80% of the world it is a requirement of life to work early in it....not mall walk and play video games until 18 years of age.
Written by: sangwong , 8 Jul 2008 5:25 PM
From: United States
The US is no longer the land of opportunity .. they are barely hanging on to the "superpower" status they inherited after the Soviet melt down .. they and will soon be replaced by Russia, China and India in that regard .. maybe Dominicans should look inwards and try to create new economic opportunities on their own soil .. hopefully something more promising than what we see in the "Zona Francas" ..
From: United States
Dear Wingding:
Personally, I think you are a fake living in a basement somewhere in South Dakota.
Your writing suggests the need for reschooling.
As to your anti-(N.)American rants, well, who really cares.
After all, this is a Dominican forum.
Write El Bush a letter - and please give him those GPS coordinates.
Also, who would possibly wish to "come down" and live with you?
Get a life, dude!
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I hope you do clean it up. The next thing on yoiur new agenda is to close Calle Duarte 24/7 and leave it open just for deliveries.
Also get the Motor Conchos under Control. Duarte is a 1 way street.
Do you happen to live in DR or Santo Domingo? There is a general disrespect agains authorities, to the point where who knows how many police officers and government officials are involved in criminal activities. Read the news every day and you'll notice how much crime there is in this little island. Even the police and amets get robbed daily, and they're the authority!
And child labour should not be used in the DR or nowwhere if what we are talking about is child prostitution.
You bastard, every child has a right to childhood and a education this is an unalianeable right, and no bastard like you shall ever enslave one for your own gain or in the name that the DR has its own way with children.
You are over the top !!
A few years ago .. a big Bozo that lived in Washington DC hatched a plot to "free" the people of Iraq and Afghanistan .. so far he has killed over 4000 US troops in Iraq alone .. close to 1 million Iraqi civilians are dead or missing and Iraq is in a state of ruin .. as is Afghanistan ..
Keep your ugly American face out of the DR .. you have no business here .. you destroy every country you ever lay your hands on .. you are the modern equivalent of the Hindu God Shiva .. the Destroyer of Worlds .. so don't give us your stupid lecture on "child labor" .. your hands are soiled with the blood of thousands of Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghani children .. you moronic hypocrit ..
sangwong they should throw you in jail and claim you are a child molestor and lets see how long you last.
it is satans like you that allow child prositution and child labor the haenous of crimes go back to the hole you crawled out of.
By the way, I live in the DR, so I'm not just giving my opinion based on stories, but on personal experience. I liven in Sosua 4 years, and no in Santo Domingo almost 5 years.
Not Dominican /Married to one for 10 years love it here and respect the culture and the people.
And the US is not paradise but then again you don't see many americans floating on innertubes and styrofoam going to Havana?
Relax peoples...
Jim and Sang; I'm pretty sure that the both of you can agree that crime is bad. I think, Sang, Jim's point is that you can't just desmiss the bad that goes on in front of you because there is bad everywhere; one should contribute to confront the bad that we see and that is witing our reach to do so, like Jim does, by writing about it on ego-enhancing blogs.....
one gringo that spent 15 years with your {warm, caring, wonderful people}
really sorry for any 8 or 9 year girl that is beautiful, light skin its a real nightmare for her most of the time from her own FATHER. or uncle or other family member. times shes 12 or 13y she out on the street.
from one ugly american. why dont you pack your suitcase and leave the united states?
the states was doing fine with out people like you. deal for you i will not come to your great island and you stay out of the states, this way all of you can ROB each other and sell your ladies for a few bucks., sell your drugs to each other.
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No...but you see a fair number of DR's floating in overstuffed yolas to Puerto Rico. I have often thought it funny that since the Dominicans do not have the political strength of the Cubans in the US...that you hear about every piece of floatsam with a Cuban clinging to it...but hardly a peep about the 1000's of Dominicans who take thier chances on one of the worst bodies of water in the Atlantic basin...the Mona Passage.
Secondly....do paper routes in North America count as child labour???? How about lawn cutting??? What about on the farm.....should a 10 year old help with chores????
In 80% of the world it is a requirement of life to work early in it....not mall walk and play video games until 18 years of age.
Personally, I think you are a fake living in a basement somewhere in South Dakota.
Your writing suggests the need for reschooling.
As to your anti-(N.)American rants, well, who really cares.
After all, this is a Dominican forum.
Write El Bush a letter - and please give him those GPS coordinates.
Also, who would possibly wish to "come down" and live with you?
Get a life, dude!