Radhamés Seguras immediate family we suppose

Now for the other 5000 count em five thousand deadwood employees

Wow,,,who is this dude,,operating U.S style,,,i like it,,,hope you dont replace those people with you cousing or neighbor!!!!

GREAT!!!!!!! It's about time. Do a major house cleaning and let's get power to all the people "who pay for it". Then put Seguras in the slamer.

Telemeco, I love it, jajajaja. We'll just have to see if he turns into one, we know a lot of them already.

The electric chair for Radhamés Seguras.... but first we give him a fair trial ....then the chair

I would love to know altogether how much this deadwood got paid per month.

"Marranzini had said the CDEEE’s payroll had more than 4,000 people, when it could operate with just 400,"

WHAT !!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on, can you believe it. That can't be possible. They had 3,600 people on the payroll that were simply dead weight. How long has this been going on? And why was it allowed to happened? Who is responsible for permitting this abusive use of power and public resources?
Anyway, at this point in time, I guess it does not really matter. The important thing to know is that the clean-up finally took place. PERIOD!!! I justs only hope that the rest of the other government agencies follow the same course.

Good idea Fred, But the power would probably go out when they pull the switch.

There is a God.

Next cut 3,000.

The DR is one of the few remaining countries who are not able to provide stable electricity. This is a major reason for why many companies have moved thier operation to places like India and Mexico where the labor costs can be the same or even cheaper and they can run their business without having to provide their own electricity.

Written by: ElProfe, 1 Sep 2009 9:31 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Jarabacoa
Good idea Fred, But the power would probably go out when they pull the switch. ...........................Then we leave him strapped in the chair waiting for it to come back on like everybody else in the country

That's a good start! Keep em coming!

With the reduced payroll we should have more money for new equipment and no blackouts in the future... right?

xwill, they still owe ~$700 MM USD. If he really cleans house, his headcount at CDEEE should be approx. 600-800, that leaves only a few thousand to go.!! Although a good start, he must be commended in his actions. Every Dept./Ministry in the DR has equal amount to fat/deadwood ! If all Secs. would follow Marranzini's lead, the DR may be able to allocate funds to alleviate the electrical problems with upgrades in distribution, prosecution of fraud/theft, new generating plants, pay its debts, etc.

that would be good if they really go after the ones that steal the cables.. But the jails might overflow. lol

Also, they need to figure out a way to add more meters for the people in the campos. There are some areas that they pay a flat fee but the people leave the lights on all night, it wastes energy. If they had meters then the people would quickly turn off any lights that are not needed.

In Santiago they have a good collection system, they shut your power down right away if you dont pay, but some people are able to manually flip the switch and have power again.

Celso is more Dominican than "el mangu", to paraphrase A-Rod.....at least he knows the sector well and if he happens to hire family members, at least they will be waaaaay more knowledgeable than the people they will be replacing, IMO

So there is "good nepotism" and "bad nepotism!" Here we go again!

the dirtbag Segura having been exposed for what he is, simply calls up the question of how many more like him there are in the public sector. some months ago i made reference to the fact that the DR has a serious disequilibrium between public spending and private spending, and, since it cannot be shown, or should i say ¨has not been shown¨that government employees have a greater marginal productivity than private sector people, the pàradigm is counterintuitive and unsustainable. well, i took a lashing from all those who worship at the altar of Leo the Messiah. i guess they are belatedly beginning to see the light.

DREAD,

As withRonald Regan, the TEFLON is beging to wear off Lie-onel Fernandez also!

Hey Dread long time!!!!

To all others, Gringo1 is correct, this is a refreshing start by cleaning up the 1000 message delivery people but when people do not pay for what they are stealing how can the service get better.

Veronica, the DR is not the only country with electricity problems is the Caribbean and LA but it is more pronounced here.

Anybody hear from TexasBill?

You are right our electricity is horrible but guess what? It is not more pronounced here! It happens in Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, even Puerto Rico! I was soooo surprised visiting a relative in the Metropolitan area of PR (Urb. Las Lomas to be exact) and finding out that they suffered from the same things we sufer in DR with regards to water and electricity. Yes it is more in DR but you would think that in USA territory this wouldnt happen! We are working on our electrical situation but we have many other things that we lead in the region such as Tourism, Telecommunications, Internet access, Agriculture, Free Trade Zones, and our infrastructure is getting up there. So yes we have alot of things to work on but we are making progress!

there goes ojedemagglio again, making his umbrella statements about leadership. i questioned him about these matters, and he declined to reply. please, sir or madam, give me the data that shows that the DR leads the region in internet access and telecommunications. also, please answer the question i posed to you before and define what you mean by leading in tourism. your join date suggests thta you are new to the forum. in that case, there is a more than even likelihood that you are not familiar with the fact that i am a cantankerous, curmudgeonly pain in the ass, who is a stickler for exactitude, not vapors.

hey, Josean..thanks for the welcome.

First off Dreadlocks,

With regards to telecommunications you can find it anywhere! Look it up in an updated encyclopedia and you will see where it says that the Dominican Republic is a Latin American leader in Telecommunications. Now I do not need to read anything to know this. I travel and I live in the Dominican Republic. I have been to many Latin American countries and I have seen the difference! In Dominican Republic we are very advanced when it comes to telecommunications. Look up modern statistics and you shall see. Now I am not saying this has been always, No. It has been in last 15 years that we have made such progress. With regards to internet access we are far advanced than the rest of the region. We have free internet access in the border towns which 15 years ago had only seen a computer in their dreams. This I have witnessed and all you have to do is look it and READ!

Ojodemaggiolo, that's all fine and dandy, but this article and the subsequent comments are electricity-related, not a conversation on telecommunications, which has started to lag (pun intended) once Carlos Slim purchased Verizon RD.....and now they want to go to GSM, which is an older technology, to save money and fatten up the company's bottom line. Anyhow, anything is better than Segura and his cronies. I can't deny that Marranzini as head of the CDEEE is not something I expected due to the Congetrix mess, but he is two things that Segura is not: 1) he is a subject matter expert on electricity who has business experience in the sector, and 2) he is not a politician nor has he ever participated in any political events. At least he gets credit for resigning from his role as an advisor back in the first Leonel government without making a fuss. His rich friends will try to bring him down because of the 1 Billion dollar subsidy that has bill collection at only 50%...

ojedemagglio, cut the horseshit and get specific. stop telling me what to read, and give me a reference. give me an article that definitively buttresses your assertion, and stop beating around the bush. you know, just like i am giving you this

http://www.flowjamaica.com/index.....sk=view&id=152&Itemid=293

i am all for folks having pride in their country and all that, but try to be adult and cut the cheerleading back, unless you can back it. as Muhammad Ali asid, if you can back it up, it aint bragging.

by the way, oje, leading a race and being öne of the leaders¨are two different things. which is it?

and from which üpdated encyclopeadia¨did you take this , and what edition?
. With regards to internet access we are far advanced than the rest of the region.

and this
You are right our electricity is horrible but guess what? It is not more pronounced here! It happens in Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, even Puerto Rico

nor more pronounced, you say? well, i am currently hanging with an old buddy on the outskirts of Santiago, about two miles from the airport. yes, right on the main highway of the country, the Autopista Duarte. since 6.30 am YESTERDAY, up until the present moment, a total of 33 hours or so, we have had 5 hours and 8 minutes of electricity. one ¨llego la luz¨lasted all of 29 minutes at 8.18 this morning, and it had not ¨llegoed¨since. i would like you to prove to me that two miles away from the second largest city in Puerto Rico endures

such agony. secondly, when Hurricane Charlie is blowing the roof off my house, i do not give a rat´s backside that a typhoon has been predicted to hit Hokkaido , Japan, some time early next Tuesday. that is cold comfort. i want lights, and cold foods. i do not want to throw away my perishables every day. neither do i want to spend 20,000 pesos a month putting diesel fuel in a generator. the current situation is untenable. only thosewho are either comatose, or simply not paying attention, have not realised that foreign investment, at least on a small scale, is drying up. gringo is no longer putting his money into any kind of venture which employs a few people, because it is a complete no win situation. the honeymoon is over.

Listen your hanging with a buddy as you say in Santiago, I live in Santo Domingo so do not try to make it seem that because you are vacationing here "if you really are", You know more than me about my country that I live and work in for the past year! second look up any encyclopedia, i just googled it and ill show you the first of all the sites it gave me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele....cations_in_the_Dominican_Republic

read where it says broadband internet access. I never said we do not have an electricity crisis, I said that it happens in many other places too so stop making it seem like its mostly pronounced here. The same way you are vacationing here in Santiago as you claim I have been to PR many times to visit family who live there and in La Urbanizacion las Lomas in San Juan they had not running water and they had blackouts! I do not need you or anyone to tell me this because I was there and I witnessed it!

first of all, ojedemagglio, i am not vacationing anywhere. not becuase i happen to be spending a few days with a friend means i am on vacation. secondly, i can see where comprehension is not your strong suit. you appear to have been truant on the days they offered that course in school. i read the article that you highlight, and, NOWHERE does it buttress your assertion that the DR leads the region in telecommunications of any kind. considered one of the leaders does not mean it leads, by a far way, as you assert. i have no doubt that you know more than i do about your country. the problem is that you seem to know less than nothing about anywhere else.

I said it is considered one fo the leaders in telecommunications therefore it is one of the leading nations of Latin America in Telecommunications. That is exactly what it says on the site I gave you. If you do not want to see it for whatever reasons that is your problem because it states it clearly on the part that says "Broadband Internet Access" that we are considered one of the leaders in Latin America in Telecommunications. That is why the governments of Costa Rica, Peru, Honduras (before this false government in power now), Ecuador and a few others have asked the Dominican Government to guide them in their process of modernization of their telecommunications. Many of these being larger nations than DR such as Peru and Ecuador. With regards to Puerto Rico and most of Latin America I know quite a lot not only because I have traveled and have family members living in PR and Cuba and Panama and Honduras but because I read. You do not know how much I know

Nor you know how much you know of other countries. I am simply sharing what I know I know. If you wish to close your eyes to something that I have clearly pointed out to you with facts that is fine. I honestly do not care how much you think I know about anything else. I know what I know and DR is and will continue to be a leader in Telecommunications in the Region (even if this bothers you inside)!

ojedemagglio, let me refresh your brain, which you seem to refuse to use

With regards to internet access we are far advanced than the rest of the region. We have free internet access in the border towns

saying that we are far advanced than the rest of the region is quite different than saying that we äre considered one of the leaders¨ at least to me, anyway

First off,

you said "atleast for me" thats your opinion and I respect it. I am not here to be disrespected! You are cursing and talking disrespectful and honestly I have no patience for that type of behavior! I gave you the site where it says that the Dominican Republic is Latin American Leader in Telecommunications take it or leave it, its up to you. You can get upset a million times for what I care. I will no longer find any information you are requesting, do the research for yourself. What you know is what you know and I can care less. I have no problem doing research for civil people who are here to debate respectfully! I know what I know and yes the Dominican Republic has a long way to go but many others have an even longer walk. As much as it hurts you or any other person on this forum the DR has been, is and shall continue to progress! Im done talking to you sir.

first of all, ojedemagglio, you were done finding information from the start, because , to date, you have given me nothing. i might be abrasive to you, but this was germinated by your telling me to go look up the info myself. this three card monte approach, where you say one minute that the DR is the leader by far, then next minute you cover your ass by saying it is one of the leaders, might work in your world, but not in all. you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. and, i am not done talking to you. when you write more of your inaccuracies, count on me to respond.

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=115005

Information I think you all might find interesting with regards to the electricity situation in our country.

electricity situation, ojeda? what electricity situation? to have an electricity situation, first you must have electricity. one hour every 8 hours does not qualify for the characterisation "service".

You know what I mean Electricity Catastrophy lol.