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05-26-2008, 03:50 PM
Radhames Segura, the executive vice-president of the CDEEE, told reporters on Sunday that the government accepts the PRD proposal to open talks on the main energy issues and create a new government energy entity. PRD party president Ramon Alburquerque made the initial proposal over the weekend and suggested that the government create a new bureaucracy, the Ministry of Energy. Segura pointed out that the government already has an integrated plan to solve the energy sector problems, as well as a series of measures aimed at promoting the use of alternative or renewable energy sources.
Numerous workshops on the subject indicate that politics has been at the root of the high cost and lack of reliability of power in the DR. An excess bureaucracy is part of the problem. For instance, when privatization eliminated most of the roles of the CDE, it was not dismantled and to this day harbors hundreds of highly paid executives.
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Numerous workshops on the subject indicate that politics has been at the root of the high cost and lack of reliability of power in the DR. An excess bureaucracy is part of the problem. For instance, when privatization eliminated most of the roles of the CDE, it was not dismantled and to this day harbors hundreds of highly paid executives.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)