NewsWhore
07-31-2008, 05:10 PM
Beginning in August, colmados nor bakeries will no longer stock the RD$3 bread. The bakeries say they cannot sustain the present costs now that the government has removed the flour subsidy promised into the 16 May presidential election.
Hector Delgado, president of the Industrial Flour Processors National Union (Unpih) says that bread prices will now be RD$5, RD$7 and RD$9 per unit. At the beginning of the year, the government was subsidizing each 120 pound sack of flour with RD$350, but when the price of flour shot up the subsidy had to be doubled to RD$734 per sack, and this was not done.
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Hector Delgado, president of the Industrial Flour Processors National Union (Unpih) says that bread prices will now be RD$5, RD$7 and RD$9 per unit. At the beginning of the year, the government was subsidizing each 120 pound sack of flour with RD$350, but when the price of flour shot up the subsidy had to be doubled to RD$734 per sack, and this was not done.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)