Turn on the radio and you are likely to hear advertisements sponsored by government departments. There is not much sense to what they are advertising, but they help pay the bills at the many news talk shows and others.
Now, budgetary expert José Rijo Presbot says that a tally of national budget information available shows the government is spending around RD$10.2 million a day. He says the spending is exaggerated especially when there are so many social demands and the Medina administration is demanding more resources.
“How can we ask the Dominican people to pay more taxes if better use is not given to the money the government already receives,” asks Rijo Presbot, as reported in Hoy.
He observes the Ministry of Education, under architect Andres Navarro, over the past eight months has spent in advertising around RD$1.4 million a day. Navarro is a PLD pre-candidate hopeful. He says on events and festivities the Ministry of Education has been spending around RD$2.5 million a day. Most goes to promote the inauguration of public schools.
Rijo Presbot says that government finances are tight now that RD$20 billion in disbursements expected from multilateral and bilateral organizations have not been received.
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Hoy
20 September 2018
