NewsWhore
10-23-2006, 06:10 PM
Council members from Santo Domingo East are admitting that they had no idea what they were voting for when they voted to award a refuse collection contract to a company owned by Mayor Juan de los Santos, a company that according to an article published in last Friday's Diaro Libre had no experience in the sanitation business. Council members said that they unwittingly voted for resolution 74-06 without proper public bidding for the contracts. Some of the Council members claimed that they abstained from voting, precisely because they had no idea of the nature of the deals with Pro-Hygiene and Health Services Company (SEHISA). Interestingly enough, Mayor de los Santos is now apologizing for what have been described as "corrupt actions", and says that he "regrets" what he did, and that he was thinking of the municipality's wellbeing.
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