Welcome, we have no electricity, but we are "modern" country because we have Krispy Kreme doughnuts and METRO nobody rides!

if the DR is hoping for any Cruise industry recognition in the future they had better get in shape and tame the dumb@ss taxi sindicatos or they will have egg on their face .....Also the guia touristicas are Guarapatas and slime balls and they need to have their wings clipped ..Also no more cheeseball gift shops in the Zona Colonial...Josean always wanted to be a tour guide but he did not have enough convictions on his rap sheet...........

Did you mean to say “Garrapatas,” the origin of your species?

thank you for the correction you are too kind

DR will become No. 1 cruise destination. Cruise passengers I meet are amazed it is not on more itineraries. It's a wonderful natural paradise with some of the biggest and best cared for national parks in the Caribbean - plus superb entertainment.
http://www.sportdiver.com/article.jsp?ID=1503
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Don't forget what the really come for the METRO!

the cruise passengers you meet are looking for hookers of various sexual persuasions and perversions and should not be considered the typical island tourist

This will make a huge difference when fully developed. If cars can be prohibited from large pedestrian zones SD connoisseurs of fine Dominican chocolate will be be able to travel in an exceptional environment from one tasting to another without their palates being sullied by the acrid fumes of motor vehicles. The DR is of course the origin of many of the finest single estate chocolates in the World - the tourist and trade potential of this fine resource should never be underestimated.
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finest single estate chocolates in the World???...............for example

organic cacao is produced of high quality in the DR and I know of one Dominican boutique chocolatier .the name Xocalat at the Acropolis ..single farm estates the most costly and famous are in Venezuela and have always been in great demand in Belgium and France

The 1er Cru Bars

While all of Michel Cluizel’s chocolates are tops, the top of the tops are his 1er (Premier) Cru de Plantation bars. He makes a separate tasting box of single origin cacao bars, where one can compare the differences in flavor among premium cacaos grown in the regions of the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Grenada, Java, Madagascar and Venezuela. He also makes delicious blended bars (more about these products below). But the 1er Cru bars are his finest product, made from the beans of the finest cacao plantations in three of these locations and two others.
DR has made it to 1er Cru Bars...... Los Anconès.....

Character: Los Anconès is probably one of the best chocolates in the world. The unusual flavor might require minor acclimation, but it quickly impresses with its remarkable collection of flavors. After an initial note of licorice, there are flavors of cherry cordial, then currants and green olives, with an unexpected hit of apricots on the finish. Los Anconès is also more intense than might be expected for a 67% cacao, and thus surprises with strength as well as flavor.
http://www.thenibble.com/zine/arc....luizel-chocolate-1er-cru-bars.asp
http://www.chocolatepath.com/taza....ground-organic-chocolate-bar.aspx
Chocolate makers throughout the World beat a path to the exclusive estates...
Sounds to me as if DR has made it to the very top.........
ABC is right again....
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you have shown yourself again ....you poseur

Chef Diana Munne

Owner of Xocolat (Dominican Republic)

Born in a Cacao and Chocolate Family at the Dominican Republic. Has been the pioneer and only Chocolatier making her own Finest Dominican chocolate from the bean. She earned her Baking and Pastry Arts diploma at Johnson & Wales University at Providence, Rhode Island, finishing her bachelor degree in Food & Service Management.

Josean

please get a life!

abc,
prohibit cars in some areas of SD??? What do you want people to walk in the sun and have to fight off the people trying to sell you garbage, drugs, sex, or try ti pick poket you??? Thats not a good idea, the tourists burn under the sun man. They want to ride in a taxi with AC

josean,
they should add another route and have the metro pick them up

Just need a few Dotto road trains....... Maybe rickshaws........ Pedicabs.....
http://www.s-lsupply.com/road2.html
http://www.modeltrainshobby.com/dotto-road-trains
http://xingcolumbus.wordpress.com....ides-new-transit-option-downtown/
Electric taxis....
http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/tokyo-electric-taxi/483
If you must......

S.

abc,
dont you want to be in a taxi going 90mph and the music on full blast???

over a cliff

For you they should build a roller coaster and a Mississippi river boat.....
http://www.tdrfan.com/tdl/westernland/mark_twain_riverboat/
And Blut can combine is his chocolate adventures with Disneyland Paris.....
It is difficult to know how any American can be satisfied without the happiest place on earth Disneyland.....
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Disn....c_of_the_Happiest_Place_on_Earth.
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well known drunk from Samana tries or attempts to make a purchase at his local package store before coming to the DR to go to seed and preach leftist drivel...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqD6oX3kRM

lol blu,
that must have been a mix of brugal and mac albert

and that was on a good day

if that would have been a bodega in USA... that guy would have been kicked out a long time ago. Also, in USA the hindu guy would have been watching his every move

you mean Apu would have been ready to put a beating on him

Miserable people - no good chocolate, no disneyland...........
Only Russian videos of drunks to amuse you.........
Long live the Revolution........
Cubans sunk 'the Maine'
Churchill sympathized with the Cuban people.....
http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org....itorials/intriguing-parallels.cfm
Cuban people have 'dug for victory'.
London still has the best Cuban cigars ........ US is so deprived.
US is a miserable land......
Cities in the US have 50% unemployment and an explosion of violent crime....
http://www.associatedcontent.com/....the_ten_most_miserable.html?cat=3
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what city has 50% unemployment??? Detroit? You are pulling out numbers from where the sun does not shine

Hey did the Somali pirates get their invitation in the mail for this cruise conference event?

Detroit officially 29% but estimates up to 20 don't bother to look/register.
http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2....unemployment-hits-record-289.html
Minimum wage is a pittance and they eat rats.
Americans are hungry on a dollar a meal and food prices much higher than DR!
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/06/n..../index.htm?postversion=2008050615
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Here is proof that the local loco is a pedler:

"DR will become No. 1 cruise destination. Cruise passengers I meet are amazed it is not on more itineraries. It's a wonderful natural paradise with some of the biggest and best cared for national parks in the Caribbean - plus superb entertainment."

WOW nice to hear that good news. before this agreement signed make sure the conde plaza is well guard by the the military policeman . I've been there and they have this so called mafia

abc,
Are you in bed with hugo and castro? I bet you have not stepped one foot onto American soil.

His visa was rejected ....because he was a loser ....and he ate too much Spam after the war and ripped off too many Bundles for Britain

he might have been rejected by an American woman and now hates the good o USA

Many visits to the US.
Twin Cities, Miami, Detroit, NY, etc. etc.
I have been among the poor, the downtrodden, the dispossessed in that blighted land. Peaple eking out an existence in tiny huts during bitter winters with children not admitted to schools because they don't have enough clothing to make it to school across an arctic landscape. Blighted by simple illnesses when the nearest emergency clinic is 10 or more miles away. And among the hypocrites that run the churches and the missions.....
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wheaton glass manufacturing in southern new jersey was the biggest and most notable of many manufacturing establishments in my county. changes in technology, the pressure from unions with too much power, free trade, and the exodus of american manufacturing to countries with cheap labor has killed the economy in my county (and in much of America.)

i live in the most economically depressed area in new jersey. we have the highest unemployment rate in nj. the highest teen pregnancy rate. one of the highest illieteracy rates in nj. the highets HIV infection rate in nj. drug use is rampant. the highest infant mortality rate in nj .
violence and gangs are destroying our communities. and my county has the dubious honor of being the home of two state and one federal prison. and there are NO jobs that provide a living wage for entry level blue collar workers (except the prison. HA!). if you don't work the the hospital or the prison, forget about comprehensive benefits and pension. you're lu

violence and gangs are destroying our communities. and my county has the dubious honor of being the home of two state and one federal prison. and there are NO jobs that provide a living wage for entry level blue collar workers (except the prison. HA!). if you don't work the the hospital or the prison, forget about comprehensive benefits and pension. you're lucky if you can find two minimum wage jobs in retail to barely make the rent on a duplex owned by a slum lord who doesn't care if you have heat and hot water.
and if you are ineligible for food stamps, you might as well forget about eating. that is unless, if you can find a ride to one of the county's THREE soup kitchens.

god bless america. god bless the companies and business practices that have gutted communities like mine. god bless those of you who shop at wally world like it's a religion so you can get your nicknacks and hormone laced milk for a fraction of what they should cost. people whose faces you've never seen and nam

seen and names you'll never know suffer in sweatshops half-way arodn the world so you can buy your sneakers at a cut rate price. your desire to fill your house up with sub-standard brick-a-brack instead of buying quality American made goods manufactured by people who get paid a fair-living wage has killed my community.

From :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joygant/2310041543/
US has maybe changed since I was there - got worse. Above is an American view so don't say I'm biased.
Sounds good major conferences are leaving the destitution of places like Miami and coming to the DR!
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What a Poseur dream on you loser.......talking as if you were mother Teresas illegitimate son or the Albert Schwietzer of the DR ....you are a .time share hustler and eurotrash over consumer of Presidente

abc,
every country has ghetto areas. Are there no poor people in the UK???

of course .....dirty white trash just like him

Blut is upset when an honest commentator such as myself produces another exciting example of the decline and fall of the evil empire.......
Boring.....
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
CD
Americans and Canadians are now especially miserable..........
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

CD
Blut hasn't had his chocolate today........... and is his usual miserable self....... Meanwhile I had by rich chocolate drink made with high mountain Dominican cocoa.........
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Babbling incoherent .dirty white trash just like him

Tut - tut
You a slave?
"Man is the only Slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living."
MT
Socialism is the way of freedom but Blut is happy in his bondage as are millions of Americans 'who owe their soul to the company store' or now the Credit Card Company.
http://www.emancipationpark.org.jm/about-us/facey-sings.php
Can Blut be free - I don't thinks so - for ever a worker bee......
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Socialism

A progressive political system that takes the power away from wealth creators and gives it to wealth distributors. Wealth distributors are typically a class of highly trained government bureaucrats who are being watched by a class of political commissars, who, in turn, are being watched by a class of secret police, all of whom are banded together by shared progressive morals. Because progressive morals are relative by definition, a certain measure of absolute propaganda is necessary to encourage collectivism and discourage counter revolution. Since such propaganda is delivered through mass media, arts, and schools, a degree of ideological monopoly, uniformity, and censorship is also required in those fields. The resulting mass enthusiasm creates a vibrant state-subsidized culture, leading to great economic successes and technological breakthroughs, e.g., in North Korea.

You don't believe that drivel If so you are in a deep crisis of mental slavery - Emancipation is necessary...... Exhume the ghosts of Xmas's past.......
Americans are snapping up property in the DR......
http://dr1.com/realestate/property/P_1587.html

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What happened to your previous drivel about the false concept of private property, as practiced by conservative individuals of little or no moral authority.
Property
Collective possession. Cannot be private. The false concept of private property is a Big Lie. No one has the moral right to claim ownership to the world's limited resources that belong to everybody.
says shyster timeshare salesman and drunken lout

No, I have no problem in a social democracy of responsible stewardship of private property by individuals . I am not a collectivist in regards to small properties. However if some Lord owns a whole river and claims that all the fish belong to him - or a king owns a whole forest - The statute of Gloucester laid the foundations for a property owning democracy. Great estates were divided up and slowly people moved from being vassals to having modern soclal obligations and rights.
Certainly the obligations of an individual to live in an eco-friendly manner, such as in this property, are best served by lease or ownership being possible.
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you are a low grade moron of little consequence and we know you fear returning to Eurabia because they practice euthanasia

The Russain Hell has gone but that of the US is still here:
The media chosen by the U.S.A. to represent it in Europe continually proclaim that the secret of life is solved: the radio-refrigerator is what humanity was waiting for. And furthermore the new Buick model will have 170 horsepower. The theme runs like a red thread through everything we hear from America: the great democracy is inhabited by humans of a new kind, by splendid, half-mechanical giant babies who live on canned tomato juice and synthetic vitamins. In America they add artificial sweetener and vanilla flavoring to the chocolate. Those super-red apples have long been a well-known product of American culture. But last Christmas I came across some oranges of particularly tempting, chrome-yellow splendor. When I pressed the first one, the color came off on my fingers. And sure enough: on the rind was stamped "Color added." The color was as false as a technicolor film. For me that was a novelty at the time.

The idea of brotherhood lies so deep in European culture that we can find it in all shades. It is our picture of the world. And if one cannot see the parallelism in such different formulations as Francis of Assisi's "brother ass" / "brother sparrow" / "brother wolf" and Darwin's doctrine of the origin of species, then one is either a religious or a scientific dogmatist.

Freedom and equality are thoughts which would never have been thought had the idea of brotherhood not provided fertile soil. But once they are there, they can forget their origin and take on lives of their own. Europe embraced the holy, threefold motto: liberty, equality, fraternity. The West chose freedom. The East chose equality. But freedom without brotherhood is the economic and social law of the jungle. Without brotherhood freedom becomes divorced from equality.

We know blut has no brothers.........
http://www.uncletaz.com/fearofamer.html
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those bundles for Britain were wasted on you and also the free Spam which you ate with delight and wolfed down a true delicacy in the land of bangers and mash.....in your childhood ration book in hand begging those American GIs for Hershey bars and anything else you could get your ricket deformed hands on .....a great citizen of Eurabia you were a loser you are a loser and you will always be a loser

most people just slashed the whitewall tyres of GI's cars - such a shame - and when they went in a pub our nice friendly commonwealth cousins sat and spoke loudly in close proximity to their starched uniforms........ they left. Of course following series of murders on both sides often they had to back on base at 9 p.m. When they had open days anything tha moved - bullets, cartridge cases, short wave radios etc. When I was growing up the local teenagers had a nice way of engaging the GI's in fights - and tipping off the police who arrested the GI's but somehow the local lads.....
Wire fencing from the local base perimeter was good for chicken fence......
Petrol caps were not often locking so a few tablespoons of sugar.....
bits of wood rammed up exhausts.....
cutting hand brake and brake tubes were other tricks.
Tut Tut another dead American soldier or airman killed on British roads.
The Bits did what they could to get rid of the occupying force - but there was a PM called

McMillan.
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target for you.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

This guy is an idiot!
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an idiot who won a Nobel in economics Target

For sure - he wanted to legalize marijuana I guess he liked getting high.
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Blut wants cheaper clothes through a free market.......
http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2009....-hour-weeks-paid-once-a-year.html
He can then go on longer and more expensive cruises knowing his Armani suits will get cheaper every year.....
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Blut off on a cruise........ he didn't forget his alligator sneakers ......
http://www.mosneakers.com/%27crusader%27_-_full_alligator/pl/69/

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Labadee, Haiti has great potentials. Royal Carribean is currently building and expanding its already existing peer. Watch out the DR haiti might become the most sought after destination, if clinton keeps his strong promotion in developing haiti tourism industry.

Yes DR must cast itself clear of both Haiti and USA. Clinton's friends can't wait to buy their luxury yahts from the profits from Haiti tourist services provided at a quarter of the cost of DR seivices. US citizens should 'follow the leader' and and leave DR for the richer fields of Haiti before it is too late......
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Blut should get out of DR before DR finds he works for CIA!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_cia_trial
S.

you should be keelhauled

oh! you are upset today - I wonder who with!
Just think of beautiful Haiti for your next exile....

Bill Clinton will be proud of you
S.

Not gone yet!
Not very loyal!
You can get a housekeeper there for ten dollars a week!
S.

And sure people will smuggle in your beloved alligator sneakers!
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And you could rise to a Butler!
After traning you could take him to the US and hire him out by the day as imoverished excutives man no longer be able to afford full time services.
http://www.modernbutlers.com/
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Cadburys will soon be down the drain and there will be very little left of your miserable childhood..http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/08/cadbury-america-hershey

wonka to you......... like Dahl chocolate was not politically correct. Only rasta nibs round here.... of course most people did not buy chocolate because of the plantation conditions it was produced under. Fair trade is a modern invention.
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the neo socialist Gordy will soon be put out to pasture and the glorious Tories will try to repair the damage done.....If only we could find another Thatcher

British people will not repeat their mistake!
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True because when they made you they threw away the mold ....and then they beat the shit out of the moldmaker for doing it

For, sure got rid of all vestiges of that evil spirit!
Still good comprehensive health care might just be a available to all US citizens. A small step in the right direction 60 years late.
S.

as an experienced chicken choker you should not count them so soon

You havn't got any chickens ( or beans ) to count. Anyway parrots can only count up to 6 or 7 its a fact..... But cookoos like you are parasitic and lay egg in other peoples nests so have no need to count!
S.

Counting yet?