The trend continues whereby new government officers seek to replicate perks and violations of the past. The media occasionally picks up one and another case.
N Digital now reports that the secretary general of the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) in Mao, Valverde is on the government payroll as both regional director for the Ministry of Education (RD$150,000) and councilor for the Santa Cruz de Mao township (RD$52,200). The public administration law 41-08 and the Dominican Constitution prohibit that a person has two jobs. An exception is made in the case the person is a teacher, but the report in N Digital says that the administrative role in the Ministry of Education does not qualify for the exception in the case of teachers.
N Digital also reports that a similar case is that of José Sánchez Baldwin, another councilman for the ruling party in Puerto Plata, who is on three different government payrolls making around RD$200,000 a month. This case was submitted for investigation to the Specialized Prosecution Office for Administrative Corruption (Pepca) and the Ethics Agency of the government.
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N Digital
30 November 2021