President Leonel Fernández appointed Amilcar Romero as his new minister of agriculture. Amilcar is a known Partido Reformista Social Cristiano director. In a past PRSC government, then President Joaquín Balaguer appointed him to manage the state agriculture bank, Banco Agrícola, and to serve as minister of agriculture. Amilcar also served as general administrator of the state electricity utility during Balaguer’s days in government. Amilcar is a graduate agronomist who has worked with the Ferquido fertilizer company. In the reshuffling of the cabinet, the President removed three PRSC members – Jimmy García from the National Sugar Institute (INAZUCAR), José González Sánchez, who was consul in Panama and Rafaela Alburquerque, who served as consul in Belgium, and was elected to serve in Congress this year. President Fernández also removed TV producer Miledy de Cabral from her post as consul in Holland.
