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Local July 20, 2015 | 5:08 pm

Dominican govt. calls blackout threat on US$800M debt ‘blackmail’

Santo Domingo.- The government won’t bow to the power companies’"blackmail" of threatening to shut down their plants if thegovernment fails to pay the US$800 million electricity debt, said the CEO of DominicanRepublic’s State-owned Electric Utility (CDEEE) on Monday.

Ruben Jimenez Bichara said the government will put an endto that ‘blackmail’ once the two coal-fired po... Read more

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