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11-30-2007, 04:50 PM
Presidential urban affairs advisor Pablo Yarull is proposing that all high-ranking government officials, including the President and vice president, take a 50% pay cut in their Christmas bonus. The money would be used to help the families affected by Tropical Storm Noel. Yarull said that this deduction would be a one-off and would only affect high-ranking officials like ministers, deputy-ministers, directors and deputy-directors, governors and vice governors, superintendents and the like. Government officials who make RD$50,000 or more would also be affected. Yarull, quoted in Hoy, says that the pay cut would be a drop in the ocean for these high-ranking officials. Yarull's proposal is not too far fetched considering the government's announcement that this year's lavish end-of-year parties, which cost millions, are being cancelled in order to use the funds for victims of Noel.
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