The debate over Barrick Gold’s contract for the Pueblo Viejo gold mine in the Dominican Republic has reached the presidency, with President Danilo Medina issuing a “final call” to the company to modify the terms of the contract that are, in his estimation, “unacceptable.”
See http://www.bnamericas.com/news/mining/president-calls-barricks-pueblo-viejo-contract-unacceptable-suggests-windfall-tax1/342937963.
Barrick is a Canadian company in which there is major British investment (see http://moneytometal.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Barrick&go=Go).