The Oficina Metropolitana de Servicios de Autobuses (OMSA) has suspended most of its services in Santo Domingo and Santiago because of credit problems. The corporation, under former president of the infamous trucking union, Diogenes Castillo, reportedly holds a debt of RD$200 million to its suppliers, who have cut credit. Luis Ernesto Perez Cuevas, director of the Budget Department, said that OMSA receives RD$62 to RD$72 million every month to provide the service. In the interim, the public bus service is being primarily provided by Fenatrano and Conatra union minibuses that have practically taken over the OMSA bus routes. The unions received new buses through the Plan Renove import program heavily subsidized by the Dominican government.
