A report in today’s Diario Libre, Monday 10 February, focuses on the Ministry of Education’s free spending on transport vehicles and advertising. Diario Libre says that the Ministry of Education received RD$99.6 billion last year, in response to public demands for 4% of GDP to be assigned to education. Nonetheless, according to financial reports, the Ministry’s expenditure included a spending spree on transport equipment, including 35 luxury SUVs of the total of RD$624 million spent on new vehicles. This included the purchase of 160 pickups ordered for the Ministry. The Ministry has spent RD$53 million on advertising in addition to the advertising chapter already authorized by the Central Government.
www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2014/02/10/i474931_ministerio-educacin-gast-vehculos-624-millones.html