{"id":24746,"date":"2009-12-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/the-holidays-are-here\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:43:56","slug":"the-holidays-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/12\/10\/the-holidays-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The holidays are here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Although the holiday season in the DR starts in late November, the &#8220;official&#8221; start to the holiday season is the day the government disburses holiday bonuses. Today an estimated RD$6 billion will begin to circulate in Christmas wages paid by public institutions. This doesn&#8217;t include the regular salaries that employees receive on the 15th, 25th and 30th of the month. In all, RD$50 billion in &#8220;extra&#8221; money will be in circulation. The private sector will pay out an estimated RD$21 billion, the public sector will pay out RD$12 billion, and the informal sector will generate RD$17 billion for a RD$50 billion total of extra funds. According to the National Treasury, 90% of all payments will be made electronically. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the holiday season in the DR starts in late November, the &#8220;official&#8221; start to the holiday season is the day the government disburses holiday bonuses. Today an estimated RD$6 billion will begin to circulate in Christmas wages paid by public institutions. This doesn&#8217;t include the regular salaries that employees receive on the 15th, 25th &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/12\/10\/the-holidays-are-here\/\" 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":[228,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746"}],"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=24746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}