Assembly president Reinaldo Pared gesturing during the debates.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Revisory Assembly last night voted to exclude the phrase “truthful information” in the new Constitution as the Deputy Pelegrín Castillo the proposed, noting that that it limits the free exercise of the media and journalists, and approved the guarantee of free enterprise.
In a second roll call the assembly’s 124 members of the different political parties voted against the Castillo’s proposal, after which article 50, numeral one of the constitutional reform bill will now state: “All persons have the right to information. This right includes to seek, investigate, receive and divulge information of all types, of governmental function, by any means, channel or route, in adherence to what the Constitution and the law determine.”
Only 38 of the Assembly’s members voted to maintain the questioned phrase, 27 of them from the ruling PLD party and its allies.
Free enterprise
The Assembly also accepted the National Business Council’s (Conep) observations and approved article 51 in the reform bill on Free Enterprise, which recognizes and guarantees the freedom of commerce and industry, and will not allow monopolies “except in benefit of the State.”
From: Puerto Rico, Oso Blanco Rio Piedras
Let us hope so ....Do not go down the road these other countries ie. Venezuela Bolivia etc are going to their demise
Written by: BASTA, 23 Sep 2009 8:16 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Yes big whoop. Where are the plans for the Metro which were handed over to that investagative reporter .with such pomp and ceremony. Are they still alive?
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
London to a brick I won
From: Puerto Rico, Oso Blanco Rio Piedras
Basta please dont get Senor " Paid by the Word " wound up on the Metro
From: United States
Yes, lets hope so.
I won't trust it until someone uses it and finds the transparency.
Written by: Belly, 23 Sep 2009 8:49 AM
From: United States, Seattle, W.A.
gmiller
I won't trust it until someone uses it and finds the transparency.
Actually Nuria used to bring down a head man of the cdee and also t put out the SEDEFIR corruption scandal with money given to those supposed bus driver in trips and many more instances. We are a developing country and as you know Democracry is a great product but requires assambly and thats what we are doing here just like many other countries and union have their problems we do too. We can't change 200 years of corruption in 2 president term not even USA has been able to do this since corrution still happens here on a daily except polititians call them donation and we call it stealing from the gov.
From: United States
Yes, I am aware and I have a great respect for her.
But what I have learned is "what they say is not necessarily what they do".
If this put an end to the fool from PP who wanted to changed it because he wants to hide his nepotism, then I am thrilled.
And in the US at least when they find corruption, someone goes to jail.
Written by: Belly, 23 Sep 2009 9:04 AM
From: United States, Seattle, W.A.
Gmiller
And in the US at least when they find corruption, someone goes to jail.
I would change your statement from when they find to when the public finds out. I can give you many example of corruption just in Harris county TX where corruption is happening now but nothing is done until some news source make it public.
Written by: bernies, 23 Sep 2009 9:27 AM
From: United States, key west fl
freedom of press has prevail. so what is the issue here. we should be happy that a least the senators and congressman-women in this assambly are doing the right thing. stop comparing the dr with other countries
Written by: vacanos, 23 Sep 2009 10:54 AM
From: United States, An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
The problem is that more than half of our country journalists is on the govt payroll. The CDEEE under Radames had almost 700 journalist on their payroll.
Written by: josean, 23 Sep 2009 12:43 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Until we see LIE-onel Fernandez impeached or resigning due to investigative reporting on METROGATE and Sunland Gate, we will not know what true freedom of the press is in the Dominican Republic.
Written by: okian, 23 Sep 2009 3:00 PM
From: United States
Let's see the names of the 38 who voted to maintain.
From: United States
Belly, yes I understand.
Madoff took a while, but he'll die there.
Martha Stewart went to jail.
Many brokers in this last financial debacle.
My problem is 80% of the populace of the DR is in poverty.
While these politicians ‘steal’ money from the public for their friends and families.
Then they do not go to jail. It is so frustrating.
Dominicans are born with the corruption gene and are ONLY transparent about their corruption. They wear it as a badge of honor.
From: India
Politicians of many hues and social activists of many kinds have this strange and strong and very nearly perverse belief that there is a need to create Constitutional rights for all possible things -- right to work, right to education, right to food -- so that the state is bound to deliver on its obligations to the poor, and if it fails to do so it could be charged guilty. They believe that this is the way to make the State responsible and accountable. These busybodies believe quite ardently that they are standing up for the poor, and that they are pinning down an indifferent and a callous State. And they are sure some good will come out of this at the end of it all.
Generally, people who want to do good end up creating more trouble without meaning to do so. Those who want the State to do right and to do well by the people are unwittingly creating a patriarchal -- something which all of them hate with all the rage they can muster -- state, and forcing the poor people to become perma
From: India
nently dependent on a benefactor. Of course, they will say that when the state fulfils its social and economic obligations towards the poor, it is not doing a favour and that it is merely duty-bound to do so.
There is something troubling about this. The simple fact is that the more one is dependent on the State, the less free one is. One of the defining features of freedom is that you are responsible for yourself, and that includes your basic and other needs. Yes. The self-reliant man/woman is the free man/woman in the old fashioned, classical sense. What the State ought to be doing is to ensure that no one comes in the way of enjoying your freedom -- other individuals, other groups including the state itself. Put in another way, all of us have put up this mechanism called the State so that we can enjoy our freedoms. By legislating rights which only the State can fulfil, we are letting go of some of our invaluable freedom...
The politicians and policymakers are only too happy to
From: India
The politicians and policymakers are only too happy to be playing the boss and pretend that they are only doing it for our sake and they have nothing to gain from it. Does this mean that we need to dissolve the State? We need not opt for that extreme solution. What we need is a circumscribed state. It should not be allowed to become a leviathan, even a benign one. The welfare State is an evil in the guise of an angel. There is a compelling need to wean people away from this pathetic dependency syndrome. Very soon we would be legislating rights for people to remain happy, to have families, even to think for ourselves. This is the dystopia that awaits us round the welfare State corner.'
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Yes, lets hope so.
I won't trust it until someone uses it and finds the transparency.
I won't trust it until someone uses it and finds the transparency.
Actually Nuria used to bring down a head man of the cdee and also t put out the SEDEFIR corruption scandal with money given to those supposed bus driver in trips and many more instances. We are a developing country and as you know Democracry is a great product but requires assambly and thats what we are doing here just like many other countries and union have their problems we do too. We can't change 200 years of corruption in 2 president term not even USA has been able to do this since corrution still happens here on a daily except polititians call them donation and we call it stealing from the gov.
Yes, I am aware and I have a great respect for her.
But what I have learned is "what they say is not necessarily what they do".
If this put an end to the fool from PP who wanted to changed it because he wants to hide his nepotism, then I am thrilled.
And in the US at least when they find corruption, someone goes to jail.
And in the US at least when they find corruption, someone goes to jail.
I would change your statement from when they find to when the public finds out. I can give you many example of corruption just in Harris county TX where corruption is happening now but nothing is done until some news source make it public.
Belly, yes I understand.
Madoff took a while, but he'll die there.
Martha Stewart went to jail.
Many brokers in this last financial debacle.
My problem is 80% of the populace of the DR is in poverty.
While these politicians ‘steal’ money from the public for their friends and families.
Then they do not go to jail. It is so frustrating.
Dominicans are born with the corruption gene and are ONLY transparent about their corruption. They wear it as a badge of honor.
Generally, people who want to do good end up creating more trouble without meaning to do so. Those who want the State to do right and to do well by the people are unwittingly creating a patriarchal -- something which all of them hate with all the rage they can muster -- state, and forcing the poor people to become perma
There is something troubling about this. The simple fact is that the more one is dependent on the State, the less free one is. One of the defining features of freedom is that you are responsible for yourself, and that includes your basic and other needs. Yes. The self-reliant man/woman is the free man/woman in the old fashioned, classical sense. What the State ought to be doing is to ensure that no one comes in the way of enjoying your freedom -- other individuals, other groups including the state itself. Put in another way, all of us have put up this mechanism called the State so that we can enjoy our freedoms. By legislating rights which only the State can fulfil, we are letting go of some of our invaluable freedom...
The politicians and policymakers are only too happy to