NewsWhore
05-09-2011, 06:10 PM
The tax-free flea market, where mostly used clothing imported from Haiti and other items are sold, needs to be relocated again. What began as an antique market in the Colonial City grew when vendors selling used clothes joined, and it was relocated to the Centro de los Heroes government center. It went on expanding and had to be relocated a second time to under the Luperon overpass at Independencia crossing. But now it has again grown too much and is affecting traffic and taxpaying businesses in the area, where several major stores are located. The Santo Domingo city government no longer collects the garbage, which has been left to the vendors association. Meanwhile, the vendors have taken over the Luperon, 30 de Mayo and Independencia avenues for over 300 meters. The Santo Domingo city government plans to relocate them to an area at Km. 22 of the Duarte Highway, but the vendors say the move would be "suicide." Meanwhile, chaos prevails, as reported in El Caribe.
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