Peru Auditor Finds More than 10,000 Cases Of Gov’t Irregularities In Garcia’s Final Years

Peru’s Comptroller General, Fuad Khoury, said Wednesday there were 10,659 cases of government irregularities during the final years of former President Alan Garcia’s administration, daily La Republica reported. Khoury said during a presentation to the Congressional committee that his office had opened 29,405 reports for 2,369 government agencies between January 2009 and July 2011, when Garcia stepped [...]

Peru Government offices to open on weekends and holidays

President Alan Garcia Wednesday night signed into law an ‘urgent decree’ approved by his Cabinet that turns Saturdays and Sundays, and holidays, into work days for documentary procedures in all government offices. The law, Decreto de Urgencia Nº 099-2009, goes into effect Friday, after its publication in the official gazette, El Peruano, today.