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SANTO DOMINGO. – The head of the Industrial Associations Federation today Thursday said he’s confident the Development Plan proposed by the Treasury Ministry would start to solve what he calls the country’s industrial crisis.

Ignacio Mendez said as a result of the sector’s crisis 25% of the total jobs has been lost so far this year.

He criticized that officials aren’t committed to contributing solutions to the crisis and work to solve their own problems instead of those of the collectivity. "Time was that when someone went to work for the S-state it was because they had a vocation of service, now they go to get the check and nothing else and what occurs in that public office doesn’t concern them in the least."

Interviewed on Diario Libre A.M., Mendez affirmed that part of the solution is to invest in the local industry, as in his view some countries have reached development, adding that it’s also necessary to do the same in education, but no government wants to do it because the results aren’t seen in four years.

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Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 3 Dec 2009 11:02 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
Hogwash !
Written by: juanb, 3 Dec 2009 11:09 AM
From: Dominican Republic
What are these guys smoking?
Written by: xwill7, 3 Dec 2009 11:27 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
how can the industial zones run properly without 24/7 power?
Written by: VeronicaDR, 3 Dec 2009 1:12 PM
From: United States
Anyone with half a brain would not start a business in the DR if they have other options. With places like Mexico that have 24/7 power the DR does not stand a chance. More lies, smoke, and mirrors.
Written by: Escott, 3 Dec 2009 1:24 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a 2 days a month for payday
They run on Plantas but can you imagine how productive the country would be with 24/7 power? How about Potable water?

Ah but we have a metro... que loca
Written by: xwill7, 3 Dec 2009 1:26 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
with the price of gasoline and disel who would want to run an entire place on planta... Do you have a planta that runs on carbon? there is plenty of that in the black market
Written by: yowzerDR, 3 Dec 2009 4:54 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Who needs 24/7 power and jobs that the manufacturing industry would create? Let's drink presidente on the metro ride to the future baseball stadium after sending our children into the street to collect the money for us.

By the way, that was sarcasm if you never picked up on it...
Written by: BASTA, 3 Dec 2009 6:27 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Oh no; Kids come back!
Written by: manolin, 3 Dec 2009 8:09 PM
From: Dominican Republic
The proposal of mr mendez isnt objective because, dont contains the real problems in the industry, they are: the #1 problem is electricity,cost and confidence. The #2 problem is the highest taxes for all, more than 50%. The #3 problem is the labor law, is obsolete, because the business owner, have to pay a lot of money when fire an employee, because there are not a correct social security law that include an unemployment and disability insurance,for that cause the engineers and farmers contract illegal haitians, because they dont demand in justice. like in all the civilized world, but the business men dont says a thing about that, because are afraid of leftist politics and syndicates
Written by: josean, 3 Dec 2009 10:44 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
"Ignacio Mendez said as a result of the sector’s crisis 25% of the total jobs has been lost so far this year."


I thought LIE-onel Fernández said, que era Pa’Lante Que Íbamos?
Written by: Paladino444, 3 Dec 2009 11:50 PM
From: United States
I wish to share some thoughts on the electricity market and jobs interrelated in the DR. I have been and still are developing plans to begin the production of bio-diesel from a variety of crops in the next few years. The DR is one of the countries I am strongly considering as a suitable location for success. I personally agree with several comments made by suscribers regarding the unacceptable lack of 24/7/365 electricity in the DR. This is a huge killer of investment. As a employer cannot afford to pay employees to stand around when the electricity disappears on a regular basis. It's a job killer.


My biggest concern about the DR is the government's subsidy of electricity in the form of providing free/subsidized energy to the public while at the same time failing to pay it's energy bill on a timely basis whic
Written by: josean, 5 Dec 2009 12:17 AM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Paladino444,

The current DR government not unlike pervious governments is composed of a bunch of self serving improvisers that will only do what is political expedient at the moment to stay in or regain power. They have no vision or development plan for the future other than their reelection, maintaining the status quo of ultra corruption which benefits them tremendously.

Please study Guillermo Moreno, who is a candidate for 2012 presidential election and the only current bright light on the horizon. I think he would be a man truly open to REAL innovation for all the productive sectors of our society.
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