Tourism Dept clashes

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The Ministry of Tourism-supported National Tourism Development Institute has clashed with several government departments that are challenging the formation of the proposed government body on the grounds that it would impinge on their jurisdictions. The Ministries of Economy, Planning and Development, Hacienda, Public Works, Environment, and the Dominican Aviation Institute and Airport Department have asked the PLD-majority Chamber of Deputies to revise the bill so that it respects the jurisdiction of their departments. Recently, Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez accepted that the bill needed changing so that the new department could not take on foreign debt, as this is an attribution assigned only to Congress.

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