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

fire them..... hubris poss
If that doesn't qualify as the comments of administrators of a Failed State, I don't know what does!
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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.
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He was also critical of the Superintendent of Energy's statement that the law is followed only when possible.