Auditors suspicious of irregularities in road reconstructionAlthough third-best and one million KM more expensive than competitors, the state-owned construction company Sarajevoputevi still won a contract
All the government agencies that were involved in repairing Vilsonovo walkway had to do was meet once and cooperate on plans. Instead, small projects have become big projects with higher costs and long closures.
The streets of the capital seem to be constantly dug up. Why? Mistakes and lack of simple coordination between road crews working for different departments.
Road work is wasted time and effortSkenderija Street was dug up and closed down for nearly a month this summer as part of 500,000 KM
Experts say developing roads and bridges would make life in BiH easier, cleaner and much safer. Government officials say roads elsewhere are worse.
BiH has the experts, but not the will to build modern roads. Petty squabbling over routes and land acquisition has frustrated construction of a road network that could save lives and rev up the economy for decades.
Church, police and municipality officials share responsibility for keeping the thousands of pilgrims who come to BiH’s biggest tourist draw safe. They are saddened, but not alarmed that over the past six years, seven pilgrims have disappeared from Međugorje and two remain lost.
Bakeries, not government inspectors, are doing most of the quality control to insure that bread and flour is hygienic and uncontaminated.
Cramped quarters, inadequent equipment, lack of oversight and standards means lab testing of food in BiH could be unreliable.
CIN tested some of the labs that test food and found variations.
Financial police complain that when they find abuse of office and illegal expenditures by officials, their reports gather dust in prosecutors’ offices.
Political party leaders don’t see any problem with running candidates under suspicion of public corruption. The voters can decide if they don’t like a candidate and courts will eventually rule on the validity of charges.
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