{"id":204287,"date":"2023-09-27T05:15:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=204287"},"modified":"2023-09-27T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:58:44","slug":"congress-clears-funds-for-santo-domingo-metro-expansion-and-solid-waste-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/27\/congress-clears-funds-for-santo-domingo-metro-expansion-and-solid-waste-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress clears funds for Santo Domingo Metro expansion and solid waste program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Senado-de-la-Republica-Diario-Libre-1024x652.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204343\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Senado-de-la-Republica-Diario-Libre-1024x652.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Senado-de-la-Republica-Diario-Libre-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Senado-de-la-Republica-Diario-Libre-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Senado-de-la-Republica-Diario-Libre.png 1424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate passed transportation and solid waste bills for US$244 million submitted by the Presidency. The bills had already passed in the Chamber of Deputies on 4 September 2023 and will now move to the Presidency for signing into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate authorized the government to borrow EUR190,132,142 (around US$200 million) from the French Development Agency (AFD) to expand the Metro in Greater Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislators also approved the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan for US$44.2 billion for the comprehensive and sustainable solid waste management program in Greater Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) is a majority in both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2023\/09\/26\/aprueban-prestamos-por-mas-us244-mm-para-extension-metro\/2473351\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate passed transportation and solid waste bills for US$244 million submitted by the Presidency. The bills had already passed in the Chamber of Deputies on 4 September 2023 and will now move to the Presidency for signing into law. The Senate authorized the government to borrow EUR190,132,142 (around US$200 million) from the French Development &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/27\/congress-clears-funds-for-santo-domingo-metro-expansion-and-solid-waste-program\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204287"}],"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=204287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204344,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204287\/revisions\/204344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}