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SANTO DOMINGO.- Only six of the 2,500 senior government officials filed their financial statements -that total RD$86 million- whereas a former official filed his for RD$171 million.

Agriculture minister Salvador Jiménez declared RD$29 million; ex National District prosecutor Jose Manuel Hernandez declared RD$171 million; Education minister Melanio Paredes has RD$14 million; and the ex Education minister, now of the Woman, Alejandrina German filed for RD$6 million.

Armed Forces minister Pedro Rafael Peña declared RD$25 million, whereas the Presidency’s minister Cesar Pina Toribio filed RD$4 million.

In what has now become a tradition the Institutionality and Justice Foundation (FINJUS) asked the Government to retain the salaries of the officials who haven’t filed their statements as Law 82-79 stipulates, although the authorities have never imposed such a measure.

SOURCE: diariolibre.com

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Written by: BASTA, 21 Oct 2008 9:35 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
do not retain- fire them!
Written by: domericano, 21 Oct 2008 9:54 AM
From: Dominican Republic
And the BIG winner is..........the ex National District PROSECUTOR @ 171 million.
Written by: Ramon_Reyes, 21 Oct 2008 12:08 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Me sorprende que esto sea noticia como si fuera novedad o sorprendente. Las leyes dominicanas, como muchas otras partes del tercer y primer mundo, existen solo para castigar al que esta abajo. Mientras existan individuos embriagados por la avaricia del poder, tendran presidentes como el actual y los anteriores. Si esta es una violacion que hasta el presidente viola, si la sociedad se respetara, hace tiempo que le habrian sacado a palos del palacio.
Written by: Ramon_Reyes, 21 Oct 2008 12:23 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Portraying this fact as news quixotic. Dominican laws are only enforced against the lower (economic) class perhaps like is the case in several other third (and industrialized) countries. As long as individualizing and greed exists, presidents like those in recent history will continue to be "elected." Should this lack of transparency be a crime, a respectable society would have already taken care of them and started on a clean slate. It is a shame to be related to such pusillanimous homunculi.
Written by: josean, 21 Oct 2008 4:18 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Where are PLD boot lickers like Chauncey to defend the transperancy of Lie-onel's "enlightened" administration! Chauncey ask to see Diandino's financial statement!
Written by: gmiller261, 21 Oct 2008 6:05 PM
From: United States

fire them..... hubris poss
Written by: MalditoGringo, 22 Oct 2008 9:30 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Diandino doesn't hav financial statements; he has a shoebox where he keeps the cash and loose change. He would have to sit down and go through it.
Written by: josean, 22 Oct 2008 9:04 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
This is the most honest statement of what Lie-onel and the PLD feel about the Rule of Law!

If that doesn't qualify as the comments of administrators of a Failed State, I don't know what does!

Source DR1

Government's decision 'illegal'

Listin Diario reports that the government's decision not to lower gasoline prices is illegal and violates Hydro-Carbides Law 112-00. The assertion comes after Economy, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas announced that although international fuel prices are dropping, the government wouldn't follow suit. Montas stated that the government would not lower prices because it had to recoup revenue losses that were absorbed by the government when the price for a barrel of petroleum was US$150. Montas explained that during those months the government chose not to pass the cost of fuel on to the consumer. Economists Fernando Alvarez Bogaert and Leopoldo Espaillat Nanita criticized the minister's arguments.

Continued:
Written by: josean, 22 Oct 2008 9:06 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Both say that failing to reduce fuel prices could have negative effects on competitiveness and could continue to affect the construction and commercial sector. Espaillat says he doesn't understand how the government could violate the law, and urged it to be transparent and apply the law.

He was also critical of the Superintendent of Energy's statement that the law is followed only when possible.
Written by: MalditoGringo, 22 Oct 2008 11:25 PM
From: Dominican Republic
"..the law is followed only when possible." ha ha ha...only when it is convenient ! and when it is not.....you change the law. Welcome, everybody, back to the topic of constitutional reform...what a joke.
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