NewsWhore
06-12-2006, 01:10 PM
Perhaps ironically, Hoy also publishes two articles about jobs in the Dominican Republic. Well, not all of them are in the DR. According to the front page article, the Dominican consulate in New York City seems to be a good place to get a job. The current administration has designated 27 vice consuls, 43 auxiliary consuls, more than two dozen Presidential assistants and 57 employees. Similar cases were found in Miami and Boston. Making a reference to the 22 years of government by Dr. Joaquin Balaguer, the newspaper says that at no time were there ever more than six vice consuls in New York and five of them were administrators. Each vice consul receives a salary of just over US$4,000 per month.
On page two of the newspaper, the Que se dice column (what's being said), the editorialist praised Chile, perhaps in honor of the visit by its President Michelle Bachelet, for the fact that the Ministry of Agriculture of that huge country has only 1,200 employees. Chile is world famous for its wines, fruits and fish. The editor also points out that the Dominican Ministry of Agriculture has 16,000 people on its payroll, most concentrated in Santo Domingo and dominated by bureaucrats rather than technicians who should be working towards increasing the country's agricultural production. The Que se dice editorialist says that this is just a sample of the huge difference that one finds in the use of the State between the South American nation and this tropical Caribbean nation. Even with the Pinochet dictatorship the Chileans preserved the ability to handle the state with efficiency, and avoided its use as a teat to be squeezed by the politicians that tend to create jobs in excess. These reflections by the author came as a consequence of the visit by Michelle Bachelet, and the writer says that sensible and worried citizens of the DR might wish that our own government would learn from Chile's example.
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On page two of the newspaper, the Que se dice column (what's being said), the editorialist praised Chile, perhaps in honor of the visit by its President Michelle Bachelet, for the fact that the Ministry of Agriculture of that huge country has only 1,200 employees. Chile is world famous for its wines, fruits and fish. The editor also points out that the Dominican Ministry of Agriculture has 16,000 people on its payroll, most concentrated in Santo Domingo and dominated by bureaucrats rather than technicians who should be working towards increasing the country's agricultural production. The Que se dice editorialist says that this is just a sample of the huge difference that one finds in the use of the State between the South American nation and this tropical Caribbean nation. Even with the Pinochet dictatorship the Chileans preserved the ability to handle the state with efficiency, and avoided its use as a teat to be squeezed by the politicians that tend to create jobs in excess. These reflections by the author came as a consequence of the visit by Michelle Bachelet, and the writer says that sensible and worried citizens of the DR might wish that our own government would learn from Chile's example.
Link To Original Article (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)