El Caribe newspaper today highlights that a long list of major public works has nothing but front-page headlines to show for it. The newspaper mentions that President Hipolito Mejia participated in the much-publicized, ground-breaking ceremonies for the US$5-billion megaport in Manzanillo in the Northwest that never happened and the renovations at the San Pedro de Macoris port that was quickly abandoned. The list of pipe dream works also includes he start of the Duarte-San Francisco de Macoris US$112-million highway expansion that also fizzled; the ground-opening to start works of the much-needed expansion and repair of the Navarrete-Puerto Plata highway; the Maximo Gomez Avenue expansion; the Santo Domingo-Samana highway concession; or the San Cristobal-Bani highway concession which the Mejia government preferred over a negotiated multilateral organization loan for the expansion.