{"id":26567,"date":"2010-06-30T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/education-minister-on-the-electric-mess\/"},"modified":"2010-06-30T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T01:43:56","slug":"education-minister-on-the-electric-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/06\/30\/education-minister-on-the-electric-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister on &#8220;the electric mess&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Education Minister Melanio Paredes said the decision to fund the power arrears with funds from government department budgets is not positive. He described the electricity system in the DR as &#8220;the electric mess.&#8221; He complained that of two million households that receive the service, only 900,000 households pay. &#8220;They are robbing the future of Dominicans,&#8221; he said. He commented that it is an unfortunate structural problem that we have to take resources from health, education, potable water, and housing to give the funds to a business that in all other countries is self-sustainable. He advocated that the budget of his department be untouched by the reductions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Melanio Paredes said the decision to fund the power arrears with funds from government department budgets is not positive. He described the electricity system in the DR as &#8220;the electric mess.&#8221; He complained that of two million households that receive the service, only 900,000 households pay. &#8220;They are robbing the future of Dominicans,&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/06\/30\/education-minister-on-the-electric-mess\/\" 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":[229,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567"}],"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=26567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}