With one month to go before the end of the incumbent administration, President Hipolito Mejia granted pensions to several of his officials. These include Public Health Minister Jose Rodriguez Soldevila, who is assigned a RD$46,216 monthly paycheck for his years in public service. Likewise, Attorney General Victor Cespedes Martinez, a virtual newcomer to government service, will receive RD$35,000 a month. Others to retire, as reported in Diario Libre, are the director of the State Sugar Council, Victor Manuel Baez, who gets RD$52,332; Minister of Superior Education Rafael Reyes Rodriguez, who will receive RD$42,216, and the editor of the Listin Diario which is under government intervention, Emilio Herasme Pena, who will now collect RD$45,000 a month in taxpayers? money.