Does anyone know of a contact within the new government that might be able to help resolve the electric problem in Costambar? For 10 years we have been on the short end of power and other public utilities. I read about communities having 24 hours of power every day but here it has not changed. Friday we went 13 hours without and yesterday 19 hours. When we call it is always the same lip service that Dominicans are famous for. There is always some special reason why our service is out however we know that the real reeason is that we are a community of foreigners and as such have no voting or political power. With the money that we provide to the local economy you would think they would put forth at least some effort. If you speak to local politicians, off the record of course, they will tell you "Well you are Costambar and are expected to have plants and inverters so we can provide more power to the poor areas" . That is fine and can be understood but abuse is abuse and no justification can be made for the extended periods of outages we receive. They could at least provide a fixed schedule so we would know daily exactly what hours we would have no power.The president of APC in Costambar has tried his best but to no avail. At any rate if anyone knows of a method that we as a community can use to get the attention of the new government it would be greatly appreciated.