There are no easy answers
The mandate for change came down from the office of the President. Cultura is following those directives exploring all options. ONPCS allowed leases expire without the option for the renewal process.
This was performed with much thought and deliberation. DBM was only working here under their own contract for two years, some others had been working here for thirty years without a blemish and their contract was not renewed as well.
Cultura has brought on international consultants from a wide spectrum, from commercial to academic
and is searching for solutions.
While the division of artifacts was an incentive to commercial companies, it was not always handled
wisely by those companies and unfortunately DBM was a prime example of questionable business dealings from the CEO down. Just the presence of so many disgruntled investors for so long is indicative of these problems. This started long before the contract expired.
Any company that worked here should have been forthcoming with information to investors.
This is not my area of law, but I believe a US public company has the fiduciary responsibility of transparency in its financial dealings, and DBM is clouded in confusion.
I do know that the new criteria for anyone working with the patrimonial heritage of our country in the future will be quite demanding. The bar on ethics, finance and transparency as well as a verifiable history of the company and or its employees of good conduct will be set very high.
For we are not talking of a renewable resource here- we are talking about the history of this country and the days of it being divided up on a table are past forever.
and for the accusers The Dominican government has all of its recovered artifacts inventoried and in safe keeping, from the first inception of ONPCS under Senior Borell
Again anyone with a concern is free to call the Ministre of Cultura for the official government position at any time.
