{"id":17975,"date":"2007-12-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/debt-and-power-eat-up-budget\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:43:56","slug":"debt-and-power-eat-up-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/12\/13\/debt-and-power-eat-up-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt and power eat up budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Economic, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas has revealed that the external debt and the subsidy for the energy sector will take up RD$91 billion of the 2008 budget. The energy sector alone has an RD$21 billion subsidy. Montas added that at the end of this four-year presidential period a total of RD$110 billion will have been designated to the energy and liquid gas (GLP) subsidies. The minister said that the serious problems plaguing the energy sector have required an RD$15 billion subsidy in the last three years, and that all sectors need to pull together to solve them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas has revealed that the external debt and the subsidy for the energy sector will take up RD$91 billion of the 2008 budget. The energy sector alone has an RD$21 billion subsidy. Montas added that at the end of this four-year presidential period a total of RD$110 billion will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/12\/13\/debt-and-power-eat-up-budget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[226,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}