Best news I've heard yet. For the sub-standard, sub-saharan, haphazard service they provide they deserve half of what they get per kilowatt. 150 million Peso, no US Dollars additional profit? for what? MoM and Pop, fly by night, whimsical selective power? Give all the people a break. With over 25 percent unemployment.....Yet, what do they provide..? On and off service....Like clockwork....Start with the cut, then look for an immediate solution!

they have to make penalties for power theft sufficient to be a deterent ...for example the death penalty ie. the electric chair in public....this would end power theft...Then and only then should they have to give back the 150 million

If I read the article right they are state owned? If that is the case why can they not pay all of their expenses (fuel, maintenance, payroll, etc.) and make a 10-12% profit like most other businesses do.

the photo is of when a man entered the chamber with an envelope with cash in it and yelled " Who does this belong to "

Outages dont just happen in the DR. Here is a article from Venezuela from todays paper.


http://www.eltiempo.com.ve/noticias/default.asp?id=160970

"If I read the article right they are state owned?"

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It depends on what you mean by "they."

If by "they" you mean generators, the you did not read the article right.

AES is the largest generator in the DR and it's not state owned. AES is owned by the US imperialists. Other generators in the DR are also owned by foreign imperialists. The state has a small presence in the generating segment of the energy sector.

The state in more involved in transmission and distribution.

The private sector is a bunch of thieves, especially when it's infested with foreign imperialists.

The normal rate of profit is about 5% at the top end; the DT article says the greedy private generators are taking in another $150 million above the 5%. The result is abnormally high light bills for the consumer.

Passing the the buck, the greedy generators blame the state for the price gouching of the co-called "efficient" and "modern" imperialists.

The state should take over the sector.

like nutty hugo in Venezuela that will pay huge dividends for the country as it slowly collapses around him..... Tex tell the moron about power in hugoland

All he has to do is read the article from El Tiempo from this morning.

BTW GC, we should start a caption contest, mine is:

Out of view the Bani General asks; Show of hand for everyone who has sold their cocaine

Article reads: the world’s most expensive electricity..........the Dominican political class has been an accomplice to this type of business that bolster the powerful and jeopardizes the needy.

Is this just particular to Domincan Republic? Or, is it the same all over the world: Corruption, and lust for more.....As far as the most expensive service in the world, it's probably because there are too many hands in the soup.....To much overhead....This problem has existed for decades...for those recently enamored by Quisqueya's allure! Is a generational, inherited, deeply entrenched problem...Since the 1960's when there was a concerted effort to electrify every nook and cranny of the national territory; There's been a deficit of power....More demand than supply. But, the inept administrators have yet to devise a solution to the ongoing issue. What a way to run a power company? And the citizens are powerless in more ways than one. They pay, an they (the CEO's) play!

so whats new?.......................I like lets all put captions on the above photo and have a contest

All those who did not get a new SUV this year raise your hand

After the DR privatizes large sectors of the electricity industry, the light bills rises to the highest in the world and the outages grow more frequent and longer.

"The private sector is more 'efficient" and "modern," the reactionary and pro-imperialist rats argue.

"who is going to the big bash in Barhona this weekend"

In socialist Cuba, consumers pay almost nothing for lights and blackouts are now very rare.

In much of capitalist Latin Amercia -- Colombia, DR, Honduras, Guatemala, etc., the bourgeois press, by contrast, talks about "long, rolling blackouts."

What's a "rolling blackout?"

How does a blackout "roll?"

if you were on a hill looking down you would get it .....Cuba it just sounds to wonderful to be true Belial because it is not true ....we know you are paid to do this so you can identify with the hookers on the Havana Malecon

one of the aspects of Dominican culture which fascinates me is the penchant for understatement
take the sentence which attributes the mysterious additional profits to " irregularities". in some countries , it would be called graft, corruption, inefficiency, bungling, thievery, or something similar. here, we say it is "irregular".

It is considered irregular by the current panel, because they are not participating in the irregularities.

New photo Caption;

"Who wants a share of our excess irregularities"

that being the case, texasshoe, we can expect them to regularise matters with the greatest of haste. far be it from them to allow some other schmucks to be driving a 2009 S500 Benz, when they have to be making do with last year's relic!

Dread we are waiting for your caption

Caption contest entry:

Every one please raise your left hand

No no your other left hand

New photo caption:


"Who wants to go hang out with goulet and get hammered"

And yet another one;

"How many here think Belial is an idiot"

Una mas y ya, por la hora;

"hay alguin aqui que sabes donde esta mi amante"

its unanimous for goulet and belial.....Motion passed

Aw come on dread dig deep down and give us one

texasshoe asks" who wants to hang out with goulet and get hammered"? i say " who wants to get hammered, then hang out with goulet"?

Being a knucklehead every once and a while helps you live life to its fullest, along with taking all of your medications, getting enough rest..........

" those of you who have not picked up your Christmas basket from the Bani constituents raise your hand "

" With a show of hands its now official, we now fly first class"

Juanb,

Come on give us another one.

"ALL of you saw me with the hooker last night"

that was no hooker that was his wife

Written by: Belial, 20 Aug 2008 9:08 AM
From: United States, Texas
After the DR privatizes large sectors of the electricity industry, the light bills rises to the highest in the world and the outages grow more frequent and longer."

The power industry is in no way, shape or form Private.

"Written by: Belial, 20 Aug 2008 9:12 AM
From: United States, Texas
In socialist Cuba, consumers pay almost nothing for lights and blackouts are now very rare."

Blackouts have increased in that "worker's Paradise" you call Cuba. It just hasn't been reported by the free press there.

Oh Wait. Silly me. There is no Free Press in Cuba!

How many of you were singing "The wheels of the bus go round and round" during today's reading of proposed legislation?

Good one Juanb

TonyC,

Sure its free, they print what they are told and you are free to believe it or not.

Photo caption;

"Next time I won't ask who wants another round"

Caption:

"Who needs some more Bonogas cards?"

who wants to be in charge of tendering the new electricity licences?

What gall hell outa me is that the distributors buy much of their electricity from the "SPOT MARKET" at a n elevated price.
If there isa deficit of electrical production, how the hell is there electricity available on the "SPOT MARKET"?
Just another GREATA BIG LIE by the government about what is, or is not available.

TB