Dolores Vicioso – Page 7272

In El Salvador last week, President Mejia spoke up in favor of bolstering trade between the Dominican Republic and the rest of the Caribbean and Central America. He favors measures to increase trade and multi-destination travel.

Centennial Dominicana, a newcomer to the telecommunications market in the DR, is urging Tricom to remember their old slogan, “your right to choose” and stop applying barriers to interconnection. Centennial has taken public its complaints that Tricom wants to impose unfair market conditions before allowing interconnection. Tricom says they are only applying what is established …

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Minister of Public Works Miguel Vargas Maldonado has said it will be too costly. But the light train’s promoters, Rafael Calderon, Technical Secretary of the Presidency and Oneximo Gonzalez of the Metropolitan Transport Authority feel it is necessary to resolve the traffic chaos in Santo Domingo. The train reportedly would run from Km. 9 of …

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Hoy newspaper points out all the errors that resulted from City Hall’s effort to place new signs on Dominican streets. The Saturday, 26 May, article points out that way too many errors crept into the new street signs. Apparently no one at the city government supervised the labeling. The street sign program cost the government …

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Businessman Camilo Lluberes denounced a loan promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture for the construction of cold storage warehouses and a public market, saying it covers up a 153% overvaluation. He said an American company is offering the same thing for US$10 million less. In Hoy newspaper’s Sunday economic section, Lluberes says the project could …

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Jochi Vicente, president of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs (Anje), said the timing is not right for the government to aggressively take on new debt, as reported by Hoy newspaper. He pointed to the lack of order in public finances, especially in regards to government spending. “There is no point going to the international market …

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