The suppliers of school meals for those attending school for the extended school day have confirmed that the debt owed to them by the government has now risen to more than RD$3 billion.
They have said that in order to maintain the service they have had to incur debts of more than RD$1.5 billion and arrange for a line of credit with the Banco de Reservas Foundation.
Marino Peralta and Luis Suarez, president and advisor of the Association of Suppliers and Providers of School Meals of the Dominican Republic (ASUPLIDERD), respectively, said that they were planning to explain the situation to President Danilo Medina on 1 March at a meeting, but this meeting was postponed indefinitely.
Peralta said that the payments that the government has made have been minimum and that the suppliers are hoping that at the end of this month the National Institute of Student Welfare (INABIE) will at least pay them what they are owned up to December last year.
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Al Momento
28 March 2017
