Lawmakers went to Congress yesterday with their tails tightly tucked.
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Constitutional Revisory Assembly approved on Thursday the Public Function Statute, which specifies the penalty for government officials who use taxpayers’ money for their benefit or for third parties.
The lawmakers, in an apparent attempt to counter the wave of criticism unleashed after Wednesday’s session when they in essence legislated to privatize the country’s beaches, also approved penalties against all influence peddling and nepotism.
The constitutional text also prohibits officials from raising their own income, but notes however that if they do so, “it will only be valid for a period subsequent to the one elected or designated.” Those officials found guilty of and condemned for corruption, will also be punished with “the penalty of civic degradation” and forced to reimburse the State coffers everything hey took illegally.
A similar sanction was adopted during Juan Bosch’s 7-month Presidency in 1963, known as “society’s moral wall,” which sought to repudiate those government workers or officials whom attempted to, or had committed corruption.
From: Tanzania, on the river to lake Taganyika with Kate
My God why would anyone want to stop corruption ..............is this an inside joke or what ?
From: Tanzania, on the river to lake Taganyika with Kate
A similar sanction was adopted during Juan Bosch’s 7-month Presidency in 1963, known as “society’s moral wall,” which sought to repudiate those government workers or officials whom attempted to, or had committed corruption....................................Now I finally understand why they got rid of Bosch......it is finally clear
From: United States
Dominicans talk talk talk and do NOTHING.
I'll believe it when I see it personally.
Written by: Bizc8, 2 Oct 2009 9:24 AM
From: United States
I second that motion Mr. Miller!
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I love their ideas on punishment. If you get caught you lose your job and have to pay it back. Now thats very harsh. How about you go to jail for 50 years or get hung in the public square. All your families assets get forfeitted to a fund for public education and medical assistance. How about something like that to make people thing before they steal from the public using their job.
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"approved penalties against all influence peddling and nepotism. "
Oh, I get it, just like the presidents "Zero Tolerance" BS. Does anything embarrass a Dominican?
These morons could not run a Bodega.
Written by: synapse, 2 Oct 2009 2:16 PM
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If everyone paid back what they took through corruption, ---- they could pay off the national debt and have money left over to build new prisons for them too.
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synapse, LOL, How true.
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synapse, they could pay back the national debt of the USA.,
Written by: brootto, 2 Oct 2009 4:13 PM
From: United States, South West Florida
what's up dread long time, the dr is the country that assembles the most when it come to politics and social issues very eloquent but nothing never anything those idiots are making a full of all. it is a shame.
Written by: jonbonz, 2 Oct 2009 9:03 PM
From: Dominican Republic, santo domingo part time afghanistan the rest
so another words if you get caught you only have to return what you stole. what is the penalty in that. Why not banned from public office, banned from governemnt work, jail time with out mutilple torilla visits?
From: Dominican Republic, Boycott Dominican Tourism
Written by: charlieallnut This user is banned, 2 Oct 2009 8:33 AM
From: Tanzania, on the river to lake Taganyika with Kate
A similar sanction was adopted during Juan Bosch’s 7-month Presidency in 1963, known as “society’s moral wall,” which sought to repudiate those government workers or officials whom attempted to, or had committed corruption....................................Now I finally understand why they got rid of Bosch......it is finally clear
Yeah! isn't it... it's not just that he leaned to the left
From: Dominican Republic, Boycott Dominican Tourism
I still want my beaches back, AND PEOPLE WOUNDER WHY I WANTED TO BOYCOTT DR TOURISM......
Written by: okian, 4 Oct 2009 2:14 PM
From: United States
Another joke since it will never be implemented or used.
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i was in Santiago yesterday, and there has got to be 5000 different banners for political aspirant. every guy in the area is running for something. that tells you what kind of society we live in. heck, in the USA, there are political posts which frequently go uncontested. one party just does not bother to even field a candidate. in the DR, every guy who can spell his name has a flier, declaring him a candidate for diputado this, senador that, sindico whatever. that is a strong indicator of what politics is in the DR; an anachronistic rush to power in order to aggrandise one's self at the expense of the taxpayer.
From: Dominican Republic, la Romana
hope you did not trip there on your shadow
From: United States
no place to fall. too many political aspirants covering the landscape. it would have made for a soft landing.
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Dominicans talk talk talk and do NOTHING.
I'll believe it when I see it personally.
Oh, I get it, just like the presidents "Zero Tolerance" BS. Does anything embarrass a Dominican?
These morons could not run a Bodega.
If everyone paid back what they took through corruption, ---- they could pay off the national debt and have money left over to build new prisons for them too.
From: Tanzania, on the river to lake Taganyika with Kate
A similar sanction was adopted during Juan Bosch’s 7-month Presidency in 1963, known as “society’s moral wall,” which sought to repudiate those government workers or officials whom attempted to, or had committed corruption....................................Now I finally understand why they got rid of Bosch......it is finally clear
Yeah! isn't it... it's not just that he leaned to the left