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[ROVER]

From Dominican central


American sailors help renovate Cabarete school

posted on: May 12 2010 11:45 by Royston.

Sailors from USS Cushing, from the U.S. Coast Guard, spent last Saturday helping renovate a Cabarete school. http://www.dominicancentral.com/displayImage.php?phud=royston/dream-project1.jpg
A group of young students from Colonia Nueva school, assisted by 14 volunteers from the nonprofit foundation, The Dream Project, spent the weekend redecorating classrooms.
Lt. Brian Betz, group leader from USS Cushing, said he was inspired to implement this new humanitarian mission, similar to that performed last March in Caraballo, Montellano, where the Director of the Dream Project, Jonathan Wunderlich, had enlisted help from the US Navy to build a community center.

Lt. Betz contacted Wunderlich to offer help from his group of sailors after hearing about the experience of sailors and students from Boston, who participated in the construction of Caraballo Community Center.
The sailors wanted to see a different aspect of the Dominican Republic to that seen by tourists in Playa Dorada and other resorts. Instead, Lt Betz preferred to spend Saturday painting a school and picking up trash with a group of sailors and students from the DREAM Project, hoping to improve the quality of life of the community.
For his part, DREAM Project director Jonathan Wunderlich said " there is no better way to know this country than to spend a day next to a child, painting, teaching a new talent, talking baseball, laughing and sharing a job that serves the community, no matter that most of the painting is left on the ground!"
He said that this humanitarian mission between United States Guard Coast and the DREAM Project is the fifth to have been carried out jointly in support of several communities on the North Coast.
The DREAM Project provides quality education for thousands of children on the North Coast and participates in several programs with the Embassy of the United States, Office Public Affairs, USAID and Franklin Center, to promote development and education throughout the country.

[Andy]

That's what's Up!!! Wining hearts and minds giving a little sweat for a good cause.

[weyland]

Instead, Lt Betz preferred to spend Saturday painting a school and picking up trash with a group of sailors and students from the DREAM Project.
God Bless America!

But I don't think the entire armed forces of the US, China and Russia combined would make much of dent in the trash lying around the DR. And what little (4 hours) I have seen of Haïti it is even worse there.

[ROVER]

Double up on those frank's on the grill. :biggrin:

Some more of the chulos have returned home. :wave2:


From Dominican Central

Another 143 Dominican prisoners repatriated from US

posted on: May 20 2010 10:45 by Royston.

The United States repatriated on Wednesday afternoon another group of 143 Dominicans, 59 of them had served sentences in prison for drug trafficking. http://www.dominicancentral.com/displayImage.php?phud=royston/repatriated.jpg
This group brings the total repatriations from the US this year to 2,246. Of this amount, 700 were charged with drug trafficking. Others served prison terms for murder, robbery and assault, falsification of state documents and travel, rape, arson and kidnapping.

The group arrived on a plane chartered by the U.S. Immigration Service, escorted by six federal agents who handed over the returnees to officials of the Immigration Department and the Drug Control Agency as well as National Police. The ex-convicts had served sentences in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Texas, among other places

Meanwhile the Director General of Prisons revealed that the Dominican Republic could soon have the third-largest prison population in the region, second only to Haiti and El Salvador.
He reported that the prison population increased by 2,285 inmates in the first four months of the year compared to the same date in 2009. He warned that further increases would see 22 000 prisoners at the end of the year.
The agency outlined that this increase has led to a total of 20,200 inmates in jails.

[mikelodge]

From Dominican central


American sailors help renovate Cabarete school

posted on: May 12 2010 11:45 by Royston.

Sailors from USS Cushing, from the U.S. Coast Guard, spent last Saturday helping renovate a Cabarete school. Click to see pic (http://www.dominicancentral.com/displayImage.php?phud=royston/dream-project1.jpg)
A group of young students from Colonia Nueva school, assisted by 14 volunteers from the nonprofit foundation, The Dream Project, spent the weekend redecorating classrooms.
Lt. Brian Betz, group leader from USS Cushing, said he was inspired to implement this new humanitarian mission, similar to that performed last March in Caraballo, Montellano, where the Director of the Dream Project, Jonathan Wunderlich, had enlisted help from the US Navy to build a community center.

Lt. Betz contacted Wunderlich to offer help from his group of sailors after hearing about the experience of sailors and students from Boston, who participated in the construction of Caraballo Community Center.
The sailors wanted to see a different aspect of the Dominican Republic to that seen by tourists in Playa Dorada and other resorts. Instead, Lt Betz preferred to spend Saturday painting a school and picking up trash with a group of sailors and students from the DREAM Project, hoping to improve the quality of life of the community.
For his part, DREAM Project director Jonathan Wunderlich said " there is no better way to know this country than to spend a day next to a child, painting, teaching a new talent, talking baseball, laughing and sharing a job that serves the community, no matter that most of the painting is left on the ground!"
He said that this humanitarian mission between United States Guard Coast and the DREAM Project is the fifth to have been carried out jointly in support of several communities on the North Coast.
The DREAM Project provides quality education for thousands of children on the North Coast and participates in several programs with the Embassy of the United States, Office Public Affairs, USAID and Franklin Center, to promote development and education throughout the country.

Were our Tax Dollars paying for this or was it during Leave Time ??

[mikelodge]

Double up on those frank's on the grill. :biggrin:

Some more of the chulos have returned home. :wave2:


From Dominican Central

Another 143 Dominican prisoners repatriated from US

posted on: May 20 2010 10:45 by Royston.

The United States repatriated on Wednesday afternoon another group of 143 Dominicans, 59 of them had served sentences in prison for drug trafficking. Click to see pic (http://www.dominicancentral.com/displayImage.php?phud=royston/repatriated.jpg)
This group brings the total repatriations from the US this year to 2,246. Of this amount, 700 were charged with drug trafficking. Others served prison terms for murder, robbery and assault, falsification of state documents and travel, rape, arson and kidnapping.

The group arrived on a plane chartered by the U.S. Immigration Service, escorted by six federal agents who handed over the returnees to officials of the Immigration Department and the Drug Control Agency as well as National Police. The ex-convicts had served sentences in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Texas, among other places

Meanwhile the Director General of Prisons revealed that the Dominican Republic could soon have the third-largest prison population in the region, second only to Haiti and El Salvador.
He reported that the prison population increased by 2,285 inmates in the first four months of the year compared to the same date in 2009. He warned that further increases would see 22 000 prisoners at the end of the year.
The agency outlined that this increase has led to a total of 20,200 inmates in jails.


So the ones with money walked away with a cousin or friend and others went into the sweat box and perhaps a few returned to drinking and whoring on a moto in Sosua.

Real fricking nice. If the DR invested in some Waco Kool Aid they could save alot of money.

[ROVER]

From Dominiccan Watchdog

Girl and her two kidnappers die in auto accident (http://topics.forbes.com/auto+accident/#referrer=GEXVGFIOMU) http://dominicanwatchdog.org/th.php?p=upload/pages/356/kidnapping%20dominican%20republic.jpeg&w=300&h=200 DominicanToday.com - A little girl affected by Down Syndrome (http://topics.forbes.com/Down+Syndrome/#referrer=GEXVGFIOMU) and two men who had just kidnapped her in the central town Bonao died today Friday when the SUV (http://topics.forbes.com/suv/#referrer=GEXVGFIOMU) in which they fled flipped on the highway to the earby city La Vega. (http://topics.forbes.com/La+Vega/#referrer=GEXVGFIOMU)
The mother of the 10 year old Carla Nicole Jiménez, who was also kidnapped, survived the accident and is being treated for non life-threatening injuries in nearby Juan Bosch Hospital.
The girl was kidnapped when her mother taking her to school, is daughter of doctors Pedro Jiménez and Carmen Paulino, whereas the kidnappers have yet to be identified.

[ROVER]

From Dominican Central

Dominican "illegals" are choosing to come home

posted on: May 23 2010 11:22 by Royston.

Hundreds of Dominicans living illegally in various countries are returning voluntarily and disillusioned to their homeland.
Most come from the United States, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Curacao and Spain, and appear happy to be back in their country.
Statistical reports show that from January to date, 468 Dominicans have returned voluntarily to the country, an average of over one hundred monthly.

They come with travel documents issued by the Dominican consulates, some of which do not charge for issuing the document to those who request it.
Some consulates, such as Puerto Rico, according to some beneficiaries, assist with the purchase of air tickets to return to the Dominican Republic.
Persecution, the lack of jobs and poor pay, in most cases, forced the would be emigrants to return to their homeland.

There are many instances of Dominicans, who come with official travel papers issued by the consulates, being held at the Military Coordination Office of Immigration at the Las Americas airport. The latest case is of a woman affected by serious health problems who was deported by the authorities of San Martin. She was held by soldiers from that office at las Americas for several hours.
In other cases, soldiers assigned to the immigration office have allegedly tried to blackmail people returning with papers from the consulates, saying that would be sent to the National Police charged with using forged documents.

Several directors of Immigration have suggested that the Coordinating Office be dismantled as they feel it is unnecessary.