Whatever, .....
Again, no solutions, no hope, only dire warnings from the long time downer crowd.
Lay off the Fiscal thing as there's really two sides to that story as you know.
And here's a secret Lambada, Elvis is really alive and livinging in El Batay, shhh.. don't tell anyone, o.k.?
jackieboo; said:
So, the report of the in-country long-timers is that crime is up and that it is completely different from the crime in the past, duh.
I have a question, why haven't the 'long-timers' done anything about the change in crime?
It seems that on this board there's an aweful lot of whining and very little real action taken by the members. Here's an idea, get off the computer and make a few phone calls, since the 'long timers' have been here for so long you'd think by now that they would have made a few connections, right? Why not use those connections to improve the situation?
Call the friggin president, e-mail the tourist minister, make yourself heard further than the all important DR1 !
Well I think that I have lain on the floor laughing at the above quotes long enough ? now is the time for a few words of helpful information to the poster.
For those of you who know me well ???? enjoy the humour of this response.
For those intelligent enough to recognize it, enjoy the sarcasm this contains
For those not sufficiently gifted with the means to distinguish one OR the other (possibly like the poster of these quotes) please bear with me being apparently so rude as to disagree with the comments this poster has made.
Anyone commencing a post with ?Whatever ???.? immediately indicates his/her inability to continue a sane & logical thought process AND the fortitude to pay sufficient attention to any useful information that might be forthcoming, ???. but let me continue to try the education process as I don?t give up that easily.
Might I refer the honourable gentleman to this article
.: Peri?dico El FaroEdici?n Digital :..
It was written IN SPANISH some weeks ago & laid the writer open to ill feelings & possible dangers IF misinterpreted by the local Dominicans. However, it does lay out her thoughts on drug related crime issues in this country, it DID get published & has received widespread support from Dominicans locally. What have YOU had published? :squareeye
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Public Health warning. If you have to use Bablefish to translate the text, please be very careful as excess use of the grey matter formulating the translation into readable English can be prejudicial to your health if you are unused to using the brain!). :cheeky: :cheeky:
Was it not
YOU who stated (when advice, suggestions & help was offered on your ?Trash clean up of Cabarete & Sosua? thread) that you would do things YOUR way & not go at things half cocked? Half cocked
MIGHT have got things moving a little faster & might by now have turned into a more successful project. I recall at our meeting to help you move things along, that I made a suggestion that you should walk into all the businesses on Pedro Clisante to discuss (not sell) your ideas re the project & get some feedback from those knowledgeable Dominicans as to how best to proceed (& elicit their help/donations at the same time). Was it not
YOU that told me you did not like ?Cold Calling??? If that is the case, how do you have the gall to suggest that people ?get off the computer and make a few phone calls, since the 'long timers' have been here for so long you'd think by now that they would have made a few connections, right? Why not use those connections to improve the situation?? :tired:
Some of us (at the same early stage of our time in this country that you are presently at) were already in the process of visiting the local prison for 14 months to help an inmate retain his sanity. Talking to guards & prison officers about things germane to the DR & how we could help improve the prison system, was a weekly conversation ? some of which is now coming to fruition. I haven?t seen your credentials in this matter but I would be interested to hear of them!

aranoid:
I am intrigued by your use of words to Lambada re the Fiscal ? did you mean that as a threat of some kind? Are you suggesting that she is less aware of the situation re that Fiscal than your good-self? I am sure she would be delighted to discuss the subject with you in greater detail ? having known her for a good many years I can advise you that she is EXCELLENT at character assassinations. Good luck to you if you should accept this impossible (& foolhardy) mission!!:bunny:
I would be most interested to hear which of my connections you have been speaking to to determine that I have not been ?working to improve the situation (of crime)

gre:. I?ll be glad to join you at any of my contacts you name & then call them a liar to their face (something I am not normally prone to do as I prefer to work WITH people rather than be confrontational!!).
Now, dear boy, if you would like to continue this form of dialogue & discuss other things we have done, feel free to do so here or anywhere that is public. I would
love to be able to do a lot more for this country but I REFUSE to push
MY desires/interpretations of what is right & what is wrong down the throats of the people who are my hosts in this country. I find a bit of humility & acceptance that others may see things differently to me, goes a long way to getting words turned into action ? even if this takes a year or two to achieve. :surprised
OK. - over to you to teach me my manners & how I should do things differently. Judging from your recent responses, I am unlike you in that I am keen to listen & learn from others! ~ Grahame :chinese: :cheeky: