Santo Domingo.- The Government last night agreed to designate a commission to seek solutions with the leaders of the bus owner unions, the rising transport fares, as the result of skyrocketing fuel prices.

The measure, agreed in a meeting in the National Palace headed by president Leonel Fernandez with several transport leaders, sought to avert the strike announced Tuesday by one of the union leaders, Juan Hubieres, who Wednesday night said the call had been postponed.

After the meeting, the Government’s Bus Services (OMSA) director Ignacio Ditrén said among the solutions agreed to is the creation of a mechanism to set propane and diesel prices for the transport sector, adapted to their increases and which the government has to absorb.

He said 7,000 new drivers would be immediately incorporated to the Government subsidy system Bonogas, 4,000 in Santiago and 3,000 in Greater Santo Domingo, to total 24,000 drivers. “It was agreed to place an identification on each vehicle which receives Bonogas, to be identified, which will not have any reason to go on strike."