Decree 1014-04 named the new Dominican consuls in New York and Miami, as well as those in the Haitian city of Anse-a-Pitre, Boston and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Laura Faxas was appointed as the Dominican ambassador to UNESCO. Decree 1012-04 named Belarminio Javier Gonzalez as consul-general in Miami, and five vice-consuls to serve under him. Decree 1031-04 named Domingo Ramirez as consul in Panama. In local appointments, Decree 1009-04 names Melanio Paredes as the new director of INFOTEP, the technical school that operates in several cities. Also named in the same decree are former deputy Oquendo Medina, who was placed at the head of the National Commission of Public Spectacles, the TV, radio and newspaper watchdog organization. Olga Fernandez was placed at the top of the Office for the Development of the Frontier and Leoner Metz is the new postmaster for IMPOSDOM. Control of the National Sugar Institute was handed to Faustino Jimenez and retired General Jose Elias Valdez Bautista became the head of the Port Authority. The President, in decree 1010-04, designated Armando Jose Castillo as the chairman of the board of directors of the CDEEE.
President Fernandez also named his Council of Economic Advisors, an unpaid group of leading businesspeople, most of whom are well known in commercial and economic circles. Jose Miguel Bonetti (Mercasid), Jose Luis Corripio (Grupo Corripio), Manuel A Grullon (Banco Popular), Angel Rosario (Interamericana Products), Frank Rainieri (Punta Cana) and Mario Caceres (coffee producers’ spokesperson) are among those named.
The new Dominican head of state also continued his war on the pensions issued during the last seven months of the PRD administration, ordering the immediate suspension of all such pensions in autonomous or semi-autonomous organizations by way of Decree 1005-04. Every head of an autonomous or semi-autonomous entity is asked to review all pensions and retirements in their respective capacities.