way the go rafael keep up the good work. some poeple may not be in favor of such program but i am many others. just because you lived in the country side that doesn't mean that you cannot get yourself in broaband internet connection.(love it)

CODETEL has constantly provided superior service. It's fantastic news that they will now provide broad band coverage to remote areas. Now, if the electricity producing segment of the country would follow suit and provide un-interrupted power to those same isolated areas!

Can a METRO be far behind for Guayubin!

Codetal never provide good service which is and was evident in its land lines now and in the past years.

As to compare it to the Metro that isn't running yet is an indication of how good the service is.

Yes, Venez has ordered a million Linux laptops for shcools. DR cannot be far behind!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7642985.stm
S.

I Love My Country!

It's The Government That Scares Me!

I love your country as well.
by keeping up the pressure on the elected corrupt officials maybe there may be change for the better someday.

Bingo, Jim!

Broadband in the campo.Yea but the campo im from is all about the river and there going to build a dam to destroy it.Oh wait we are going to have broadband so i'll stick around.Thats BS.

This is a great new, that's what i like to read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope they develop this project as soon as possible, I also wish they could expand the project all over the country.
The lack of internet is one of the biggest problem we have in the DR.A great percent of the Dominican children grow up without knowing how to turn on a computer, and often dont know what internet is.

Congratulationssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess your going to buy the children the computers and generators to run them!

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU VISITED THE DR?

Nowaday computers in the DR are so cheap, and they are everywere. I'm telling you this because I was the one who being a poor child had 2 computers which I got almost for free, but I had not internet.

There are many ways that children can get benefifts by existing internet around them, even if they can't buy they own computers.

You JOSEAN probably don't know how important this is because you maybe have not lived that situation.

I spend more time in DR than Lie-onel who is out gallivanting through the world, at the taxpayers expense, to serve his twisted ego!

Now if your "Presidente" wanted to help ALL Dominicans why did he not spend the $US 700,000,000 he wasted on the METRO, on the 9,507,133 Dominicans in DR (Source CIA World Fact Book July 2008 est.), which would go along way, for education, housing, medical care, roads, water works, public safety, low interest business loans, 24 hour electrical service. Instead of a stupid METRO which only a miniscule percent of the total population will ever use!

And buddy I grew up so poor the roaches moved out!

Do some maths - metro if it costs 700 million is more like 70 dollars a head or 7 dollars a year for the next 10 years. But of couse you must subtract the effect of reducing unemployment and hence welfare payments being reduced, less crime etc. due to employment, and numerous other positve effects - less traffic, oil imports, pollution etc. Also as they develop metros reduce journey time to work and improve lifestyle. Housing is made easier by by this improved method of travel. The London Underground was developed when many of the problems you quote were of similar proportions in the UK. As were the railways.
S.

Abc,

Thanks for the correction.

Math was not one of my best subjects, for that matter as if any really were!

But the point is the money could have been much better spent and we could have gotten much more of collective bang for our money!

Well, I strongly agree with you guys.
I've never agreed with the stupic METRO stuff, and Lionel is not my president, he is the president of all of us even if we like him or not. I support the good things happening in my country and reject the bad things, and the METRO construction has been the worst thing Lionel has done.

Do you think there is anything we can do to change what is already done? nope, rather than wasting our time complaining, why don't we support what is good for everybody?

I doubt it - if the DR wants to attract and keep people to run hospitals, engineer sews, teach in schools it must put together the infrastructure for an attractive city to live. Nice appartments - private and public linked to commercial, government, eductional areas etc. Cars and concrete are not good for a city and import of cars, oil, re-bar etc. is very expensive. Many other cities have followed this route. Little of the expenditure is impotts, much labour - circulating into the economy. Quite soft loans are available.
S.

Metro is excellent!
S.

If you are thinking about progress, of course you want to move on buiding and creating new things.

If you want to do what is best for a whole country, you gotta think what the most needed is, you gotta make sure you're investing in something worth for an entire country, no just for ~20 of the population.

Metro is great for DR

Big purple PLD metro

At least some people are not drinking the Purple KOLL-AId!

Source DR1

Santiago's priorities

Representatives of the Santiago Development Association (APEDI) have told Hoy newspaper that before considering the construction of a metro, Santiago needs the government to improve the Port of Manzanillo in Monte Cristi province to facilitate cargo exports and imports. Eduardo Trueba, Hendrick Kelnener, Enmanuel Castillo and Sonia Guzman said that the greatest expense affecting competitiveness of exports is the cost of shipping, and a port in Manzanillo would reduce these costs because exporters would not have to truck their cargo to the port of Haina on the south coast. The government proposed train from Haina to Santiago should be a second phase of the transport project. The businessmen also called for the construction of the Santiago public park on the grounds of the former Cibao airport.