Only in the DR could anyone say they lost 80 tons of steel with a straight face.

Pathetic.

You mean to tell me no one saw 1000 Haitians with steel balanced on their heads. Come on.

todo es posible en el pais de las maravillas

Hey careful.... narrow minded Dominicans might blame this on the Haitians. I guess someone in Nagua is going to have a nice House pretty soon or maybe the PLD grabbed it for the next Metro project coming up........ wada kontry!

from: Devonshire, Bermuda

Come on.... it's VERY funny! But this kind of crazy sh*t goes on in most countries. Somebody knows where it is...

Yes, the country of "marvels"

I seen two motos along the Malecon with the guys holding steel beams...the moto in back had the driver his kid and then his wife on the seat too....

...the Arabs cut the right hands off of thieves. This is done because it is Arab custom to wipe ones "rear end" with the left...thus not only is a one-handed Arab immediately recognized as a thief, but he is also thought to have sh!~ on his left, so no hand shakes, no business!

Perhaps it is time to begin a similar custom in the DR...when the heads of these projects or the electric company come up "short" on supplies or money is missing, simply tie them to the table and raise the machete allowing them to "find the goods" or lose the hand....as a matter of fact, any thief in the DR...

I guarantee that this will happen less than 10 times in the DR before the spineless leadership caves in......I volunteer to wield the machete and to publicly do the hacking in La Plaza de Hispana every Friday at sundown until the stealing stops.

what an unusual way to use the word denounced ..never heard it used like this and do not think it is correct ,,think it should read that Wessin announced on Monday that the steel was taken and he denounced the unidentified thieves ....well hardly unidentified as I would suggest that the IDRHI officials have a fairly good idea as 80 tons is probably 4 to 8 trucks and machinary would be needed to load it and if the police wanted to find out then I do not think it would be difficult to find out where the iron is

everyone looks the other way... town officials had to have known

Elías Wessin ..... Son of a murder... His father was a monster at least this guy is just a thief...
He will go good with LF and the PLD.

Steve Radack in Harris County,Texas precint 4 pull off a better one than the 80 tons of steel he "bought" a pile of dirt for 20 Million Tax dollars to build a small mountain so kids can slide down hill and guess what it was his dream as a kid. So with this said 80 tons of steel is easier to get "lost" the selling a pile of dirt for 20 million of tax dollars just a though for those critisizing everything that happens in DR like this doesn't happen any where else.

Belly ..I do appreciate what you say ,,but having lived in a few different palces before settling here in the DR , I do not think there are many other countries in our region where things are quite as openly corrupt .maybe you can go to some African countries and experience the same problems but normally theft of this magnitude is followed up my some hard police work

Ok someboday knows exactly where it is and they want money for it too why wouldn't they have survallience on it If it costs that much and it would've taken quite a while to get it from place to place and where would they hide it?

the mind boggles ! chills mind is always boggled

Wth?

China is the one country that imports Dominican steel scrap and they know that steel is coming from our infrastructure and yet the Chinese continue purchasing illegal steel! Until we find a way of stopping the scouring of our infrastructure (as well as the job exodus to China), we are Haiti!

are these guys trying to say that they had such valuable merchandise in such a vulnerable location, and they could not pay a watchman 2000 pesos per quincennal to secure it? naaah...some government guys stole it, plain and simple. and who cares if it happens elsewhere? when the topic of the article says "cathedral stolen in Borneo, we will discuss the morality, or lack thereof, of those people .right now, the issue is what happen here.

Tremenda familia los Wessin

The 80 tons of steel were never there. There were budgeted funds used to purchase the steel, but that money went into someones pocket. Steel never was really never delivered to the site, but to in order to cover the fraud, they reported it stolen or just disappeared/vanished. Just another dominican swindle. Pretty smart, I must agree ! Looking for something that was never there to begin with.

JUST find who's buying scrap metal by tons..............................No too many places have the money to do that.

The person in charge of safeguard this metal should be in jail.

Juango, your perceptiveness and judgement never cease to amaze me. you are correct in your analysis. i mean, given the current trend in this country for theft of electric cables, manhole covers, etc, not even the most negligent of public officials would have left 80 tons of steel unguarded. and just how do you move 80 TONS OF STEEL without detection? i mean, it is not like a shopping bag filled with yautia. this is a substantial amount of merchandise. thanks for the answer, Juango.

1. this country will only have one armed people.

2. 2nd happiest country in the world. Sit on Lazy Ass, drink ron o cervesa and play dominos.

3. Get a monthly paycheck for playing Dominos.

... and here I was, thinking that Japan was the only country with ninjas lol