President Fernandez in the meeting.
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez met for two hours with representatives of international organisms to draft a plan aimed at applying the measures needed to prevent and fight corruption in government agencies.
United Nations Resident coordinator Valerie Julliand and the representative of the World Bank, Roby Senderowitsc, of the Inter-American Development Bank Manuel Labrado, Spain ambassador Diego Bermejo, the Adviser on drugs Marino Vinicio Castillo, Economy minister Temístocles Montas and the Presidency’s Chief of staff, Cesar Pina, among others took part in the meeting.
After the gathering, Castillo said the plan seeks to guarantee a rational and serious use of taxpayers’ money in public areas. “As of January one type of observatory is going to be created which will consist of meetings with the different government sectors to be focus on where weaknesses may exist. The international organisms will provide the resources."
The official added that the commission, in which the international organisms will also take part, will culminate with an important joint operation and if irregularities are verified, the guilty will be sent to the Anti-Corruption Department.
In that regard Julliand said a clear diagnosis will be done to see the different faults and be able to correct them.
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
foreign help for everything
Written by: Gringo_1, 18 Dec 2009 8:35 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
Editor: Please change "organisms" to "organizations"
Written by: okian, 18 Dec 2009 9:24 AM
From: United States
"The guilty will be sent to the Anti-Corruption Department", where they will have their wrist firmly slapped!
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Since it's all the same BS as before, the real question is: HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE GET WITH THE HELP?
From: United States
First they should find a leader with balls. That paper tigre empty suit won't enforce anything they come up with.
Written by: BASTA, 18 Dec 2009 9:45 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
hohohohoho ha
From: United States, New York City
“If irregularities are verified, the guilty will be sent to the Anti-Corruption Department”. So that means that the president will be the first to be sent to the department ?.
Written by: Juango, 18 Dec 2009 10:47 AM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
LF is a masterful actor. He would probably make a great salesperson and earn an incredible honest income/living, unfortunately that is not in his blood or upbriging. What a waste of talent at the cost of a country.
Written by: Belly, 18 Dec 2009 11:09 AM
From: United States, Seattle, W.A.
How about investigating Melanio Paredez and the 280 employees under payroll that were not even in the country and yes out of the 280 the 30+ dead a long time ago why not ask him why was this taking place. IS this the reason why school lunch is under funded because they keep paying the dead teacher even after they die. Or how About the Diputado with the RD$100 million pesos and gun cases against the Anti corruption official. How about we leave things like they are and actually put some cases into action and prosecute it. You can have a world class anti-corruption and it won't mean anything if the SCJ doesn't do crap.
Written by: Atabey, 18 Dec 2009 11:50 AM
From: United States, NYC
Josean,
Here's your opportunity to have your voice counted.
http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=125393Coordinación. El presidente Leonel Fernández encabezó ayer una reunión en el Palacio Nacional con representantes de organismos internacionales y varios funcionarios.
11:33 PM Santo Domingo.- El presidente Leonel Fernández se reunió ayer con los representantes en el país del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), Banco Mundial (BM) y del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), para hacer las coordinaciones de lugar y diagnosticar el grado de corrupción que pueda existir en cada una de las instituciones del Estado. La información fue ofrecida por el presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Ética y Combate a la Corrupción, Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), y Valerie Julliand, representante en el país del PNUD.
Written by: Atabey, 18 Dec 2009 12:18 PM
From: United States, NYC
Castillo manifestó que se trató de una reunión muy interesante porque busca mejorar los niveles de eficiencia en la administración pública.
“La preocupación de ellos es trabajar en el mejoramiento de todo cuanto se está haciendo”, dijo el funcionario, y agregó que el gobierno pidió la presencia de técnicos tras considerar que el Estado hay que observarlo por dentro.
“El gobierno está abierto, tiene el marco jurídico, tiene la Ley de Acceso a la Información, la Comisión de Ética está abierta para todo tipo de quejas o denuncias y le estamos dando un tratamiento responsable”, expuso.
Según explicó a los periodistas, el trabajo para una mejor eficiencia y transparencia en la administración pública se hará de manera conjunta entre la parte dominicana y los organismos internacionales que colaborarán en el diagnóstico.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
this is good, We need outside help and a few honest Dominicans that can put the flame under Leo's foot. Put him in a possition (ON THE SPOT) where he has no other choice but to ABIDE by his own rules. Everyone is watching now . There is to much money not to supervice No country would lend if they thought DR can't be cleaned up and our prez is shitting bullets right about now
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
Great!
This will be akin to letting bank thieves guard the vaults. Inevitably, there will more and beigger yippetas in the streets of Santo Domingo as a result of this well-intentioned initiative. Heck, I even expect to see some Porsche Panameras.
Gratuitous advice to these benevolent entities: keep money and return it to those from whom you confiscated it.....they would put it to much better use. DR's government is not to be trusted-under any circumstances, particularly present administration.
MJEV.
Written by: Atabey, 18 Dec 2009 1:50 PM
From: United States, NYC
I agree RobertoJose and would add that with one year to go in his term this is part of Fernandez's Legacy Campaign. Josean will not like it, Leonel Fernandez initiator of transparency in DR. He got "his people" the goods and now he claims transparency in government!
El Metro Y Transparencia en Gobierno.
From: United States
i am still trying to find out what foreigners will have to offer as solutions to institutionalised thievery. what will they do? tell the politicos , botellas, militarios, police, administrators, customs officials, bankers, etc, to "just say no" to graft? what kind of horse puckey is this? does it entail a trip to a foreign country to hold these seminars? how many will be going, at taxpayers expense? give up. there is no hope. not with the current mindset.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Every developed country has an anti corruption commission that is normally free from control of any government and reports directly to a senate of house. In latin countries,which appear to me to have a higher than average level of government corruption and also a higher volatility than average ,it is very difficult,demanding and dangerous for locals to expose corruption in government agencies.
How can you change the culture of corruption without putting yourself in some danger?? If it can be done by using foreign experts in anti corruption methods ,then I would be in favour of it .
Written by: abc200, 19 Dec 2009 10:40 AM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Written by: mrweepa1, 19 Dec 2009 11:45 AM
From: United States, Huntington Station NY. Juan Dolio DR.
Santa Clause has come to town. JA JA JA JA, Blind leading the Blind. HO Ho HO.
From: United States
multinationals are to blame for the fact that you have to bribe some customs official to clear your container? or, that you can pay the fiscal to get out of jail? ABC, can you elucidate, please?
Written by: abc200, 22 Dec 2009 1:24 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
The problem is consumerism driven by MNC's The MNC's promote collectively a lifestyle that is not possible on the World's resource base for the majority. The only way they can make money by using psychological tricks through advertising etc. to hype a lifestyle. Governments with large payrolls cannot afford to pay salaries to customs, police etc. that would support the MNC's preferred lifestyle. So when you see officials of developing country arriving in a big SUV and dining on imported lobster at an expensive restaurant, drinking black label whiskey ...... the fact they have got the money for this lifestyle they crave after by the equivalent of seeing some notes on the sidewalk and picking them up, not reporting this to the police.....
But the real culprits are the MNC's who promote the lifestyle and possibly the governments who do not take responsibility and institute state control of the media.
S.
Written by: abc200, 22 Dec 2009 1:50 PM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Interestingly state intervention has made soaps such as East Enders and Coronation Street in the UK carry social messages and this is being copied Worldwide.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health....pread-message-in-East-Africa.htmlIn these soaps the villains are often the rich and the virtuous poor.
The primary villain will be a corrupt uncle of the rich family who uses his position in the civil service to ruin the lives of the other characters.
However MNC's such as Ford only want to create demand for environmentally and socially destructive goods and do this by glamorizing a lifestyle through media control and advertising that is neither desirable or attainable.
A bit heavy but does this go some way to answering your point?
S.
S.
From: United States
no, ABC. that is a flawed analysis. to say that your morality is informed by the entreaties of others is a dreadfully warped idea of how things are. there are people who steal everything that is not nailed down, and others who do not. are you saying that the societies which are less corrupt are insulated, and isolated, from the stimuli for malfeasance? is Sweden, for example, so far removed from the general world, that its people do not have access to these material targets of covetousness? no, ABC, you are mistaken. some societies just reject dishonest behavior in a more forceful way. some Arab societies will lop off your hands for stealing. others consider kleptomania a badge of honor. all indications are that you are British, so you ahould know that English members of government resign their posts at the mere hint of revelations of impropriety on their part. in a society such as this, you cannot dislodge the thieves with a back hoe and bulldozer.
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First they should find a leader with balls. That paper tigre empty suit won't enforce anything they come up with.
Here's your opportunity to have your voice counted.
http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=125393
Coordinación. El presidente Leonel Fernández encabezó ayer una reunión en el Palacio Nacional con representantes de organismos internacionales y varios funcionarios.
11:33 PM Santo Domingo.- El presidente Leonel Fernández se reunió ayer con los representantes en el país del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), Banco Mundial (BM) y del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), para hacer las coordinaciones de lugar y diagnosticar el grado de corrupción que pueda existir en cada una de las instituciones del Estado. La información fue ofrecida por el presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Ética y Combate a la Corrupción, Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), y Valerie Julliand, representante en el país del PNUD.
“La preocupación de ellos es trabajar en el mejoramiento de todo cuanto se está haciendo”, dijo el funcionario, y agregó que el gobierno pidió la presencia de técnicos tras considerar que el Estado hay que observarlo por dentro.
“El gobierno está abierto, tiene el marco jurídico, tiene la Ley de Acceso a la Información, la Comisión de Ética está abierta para todo tipo de quejas o denuncias y le estamos dando un tratamiento responsable”, expuso.
Según explicó a los periodistas, el trabajo para una mejor eficiencia y transparencia en la administración pública se hará de manera conjunta entre la parte dominicana y los organismos internacionales que colaborarán en el diagnóstico.
Great!
This will be akin to letting bank thieves guard the vaults. Inevitably, there will more and beigger yippetas in the streets of Santo Domingo as a result of this well-intentioned initiative. Heck, I even expect to see some Porsche Panameras.
Gratuitous advice to these benevolent entities: keep money and return it to those from whom you confiscated it.....they would put it to much better use. DR's government is not to be trusted-under any circumstances, particularly present administration.
MJEV.
El Metro Y Transparencia en Gobierno.
How can you change the culture of corruption without putting yourself in some danger?? If it can be done by using foreign experts in anti corruption methods ,then I would be in favour of it .
There is a huge corruption problem in Europe and the US also and I doubt if international help will asist. The only effective way may banking supervision - i.e. requiring all bank accounts of individuals be reported to the government(s) of the countries where they are doing business.
http://www.u4.no/pdf/?file=/docum....multinationals-corruption1999.pdf
One good and easy approach is to require a posting of a sizable bond. Maybe 20% of contract value.
This has been suggested by experts such as:
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/dem....ce/publications/pdfs/pnace070.pdf
S.
But the real culprits are the MNC's who promote the lifestyle and possibly the governments who do not take responsibility and institute state control of the media.
S.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health....pread-message-in-East-Africa.html
In these soaps the villains are often the rich and the virtuous poor.
The primary villain will be a corrupt uncle of the rich family who uses his position in the civil service to ruin the lives of the other characters.
However MNC's such as Ford only want to create demand for environmentally and socially destructive goods and do this by glamorizing a lifestyle through media control and advertising that is neither desirable or attainable.
A bit heavy but does this go some way to answering your point?
S.
S.