Street vendors doing well

[NewsWhore]

The informal business sector, mostly made up of street vendors, is doing so well that many workers are leaving salaried positions to venture out into the streets. Low income earning Dominicans and Haitians are leaving construction sites and sugar fields to set up shop in the street. According to a report in today's Listin Diario, some of the vendors report monthly incomes ranging from RD$13,000 to as much as RD$60,000, and this working for what is essentially half a day and resting on the holidays. For example, Tiburcio Brazoban Severino sells fruit at the corner of Arzobispo Merino Street and Mercedes Street, in the Colonial Zone. He earns between RD$500 and RD$700 per day. He has been there for 10 years, and started his career as a street vendor on one of those ubiquitous tricycles seen all over Santo Domingo. Another case is that of marketing student Enmanuel Gonzalez, who sells fried "empanadas" in the San Carlos area of Santo Domingo. He told the reporters that he invests about RD$400 each day and has sales of over RD$1,500 during the week and as much as RD$2,000 on Saturdays. The newspaper reports that some of the vendors are able to maintain their clientele for decades.

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