Economy & Business - September 2003

President Hipólito Mejí­a has done a deal to sort out the country's perennial problems with electricity supply. The government has bought back control of the problem-ridden electricity distributors, Edenorte and Edesur, subsidiaries of the Spanish-owned Unión Fenosa. High electricity prices and widespread blackouts have been the scourge of the Dominican public since privatisation five years ago.