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07-25-2007, 05:40 PM
Last night, after the opposition parties had left the floor, the Dominican Republic Senate approved a total of RD$11.0 billion more for the Santo Domingo Metro. The approvals were for four contracts that covered rails, electricity and equipment for the Metro system. When the Metro project was first announced, the total cost was put at RD$900 million, a sum far, far below what has been spent and perhaps less than 10% of the final cost of the project. Opposition senators tore into the proposals, calling the contracts "absurd", "bankrupting" and "impoverishing". The approval of the contracts allows the loans to go into effect.
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