NewsWhore
02-26-2007, 04:30 PM
According to judge Roberto Rosario at the Central Electoral Board (JCE), which supervises all the civilian registration offices in the Dominican Republic, these offices have lost billions of pesos. According to Rosario, who is in charge of the JCE's Administrative Chamber, the electoral board judges who served from 1992 onwards failed to follow the mandate of Law 8-92 that transferred all the Civil Registry offices to the JCE's control.
Rosario is the only JCE judge from the 2002-2006 term that was reconfirmed in his post. During that term, he represented the PLD party. During his previous term, he did not go public with what he claims today. During that term, the JCE increased the cost of their services to the general public on numerous occasions, with no apparent improvement in services or efficiency.
According to Diario Libre, Rosario now says that the laxity of the judges previously in charge of the JCE has cost the Dominican government as much as RD$7 billion. Besides the loss of income, Rosario says that decades of fraud, alterations of birth, death and marriage certificates and document forgery has placed the identity of Dominicans "in danger". Rosario was speaking at a training workshop for 27 registry office directors. During the session the officials were trained in the new methodology that needs to be followed. However, these officials rejected the recent assignation of fixed salaries, claiming that the JCE magistrates were unaware of "the day to day operations of a civil registry office."
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Rosario is the only JCE judge from the 2002-2006 term that was reconfirmed in his post. During that term, he represented the PLD party. During his previous term, he did not go public with what he claims today. During that term, the JCE increased the cost of their services to the general public on numerous occasions, with no apparent improvement in services or efficiency.
According to Diario Libre, Rosario now says that the laxity of the judges previously in charge of the JCE has cost the Dominican government as much as RD$7 billion. Besides the loss of income, Rosario says that decades of fraud, alterations of birth, death and marriage certificates and document forgery has placed the identity of Dominicans "in danger". Rosario was speaking at a training workshop for 27 registry office directors. During the session the officials were trained in the new methodology that needs to be followed. However, these officials rejected the recent assignation of fixed salaries, claiming that the JCE magistrates were unaware of "the day to day operations of a civil registry office."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)