The news on the revised IMF agreement represents “a second chance”, according to the main editorial in today’s El Caribe newspaper. The revised package, says the writer, is laden with challenges for the government, the business sector and Congress. The government’s main challenge is “transparency”, in that it has to explain all measures being taken and their application, so that Dominicans will know what sacrifices they will have to make. The government will have to work closely with the business sector to tackle the quasi-fiscal deficit and to define reforms to taxation that ensure economic recovery without targeting the nation’s poor. Congress has a “vital role”, according to the editorial, in that the measures in the IMF agreement, as well as the new budget, have to go through the legislative process. The writer urges deputies to refrain from short-term considerations and “petty patronage” when tackling these matters. The editorial ends by saying that “this is our second chance and we had better not let it go to waste.”