NewsWhore
07-07-2008, 05:00 PM
After accepting the resignation of eight members and firing the ninth, the Dominican Senate requested that President Leonel Fernandez submit a new list of names for filling the posts on the Chamber of Accounts. Only lawyer Alcides Benjamin Decena Lugo stayed around for the final day of the hearings, and he was fired. Previously, the 27 senators who sat at the final session accepted the resignations of Andres Terrero the president of the Chamber of Accounts, Jose Gregorio, the secretary and panel member Julio de Beras de la Cruz who wrote out their resignations as the hearings were going on. All of those who resigned affirmed their innocence.
Technicians have proposed that President Fernandez appoint only five members, which would be in compliance with the Constitution, and they feel would make the auditing department more efficient. The technicians say this mean savings of RD$20 million a year. As reported in Hoy, the members of the auditing body of the government were paid upwards of RD$400,000. In addition to their extraordinary pay packages, the former nine members of the Chamber of Accounts were notorious for their low productivity and low quality of their work.
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Technicians have proposed that President Fernandez appoint only five members, which would be in compliance with the Constitution, and they feel would make the auditing department more efficient. The technicians say this mean savings of RD$20 million a year. As reported in Hoy, the members of the auditing body of the government were paid upwards of RD$400,000. In addition to their extraordinary pay packages, the former nine members of the Chamber of Accounts were notorious for their low productivity and low quality of their work.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)