The Abinader administration announced it is reinstating the publishing of all the payments carried out by the government each month. The information will be available to the general public on the National Treasury website.
The government did not give a date for when this would be online. The government says the payments made for the period 1 to 31 January, a total of more than 10,000 transactions with disbursements of RD$13.8 billion, US$21 billion dollars and EUR5 billion will be available to the general public.
Present for the announcement was former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch of the Ethics Agency and National Treasurer Catalino Correa Hiciano and Carlos Pimentel of the Procurement Agency.
The practice was regular during the administrations of late President Joaquin Balaguer (1986-1996). The publishing in a national newspaper of the list of payments was discontinued from 1996 to 2000 during President Leonel Fernandez’s administration. This was the first goverment of the Dominican Liberation Party. The practice was not reinstated when Hipólito Mejía of the Dominican Revolutionary Party – PRD) won the Presidency in 2000, nor during the governments of former President Danilo Medina (PLD) from 2012 to 2020.
The government is betting that citizens will closely monitor state institutions’ activities and help control the spending of taxpayer money.
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El Dia
11 February 2021