DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

An opinion piece in Diario Libre today by Carlos Sully Bonelly Ginebra raises the concerns of the lack of transparency in mega projects the government has been executing under the structure of public trusts. The structure removes regular oversight from government actions.

Bonelly Ginebra writes on how public trusts have become one of the main instruments for executing large infrastructures in the Dominican Republic, yet their rapid expansion raises a key question: Which rules should govern their governance and public control?

He observes that the first trust was the Red Vial created during the Danilo Medina administration in 2013. The lack of transparency and free hand of the government in this trust has been questioned. The mechanism allowed the government to make international bond placements guaranteed by the tolls.

The RD Vial Trust was created back in 2013 for the operation...