{"id":38724,"date":"2014-02-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/a-spendthrift-ministry-of-education\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:43:56","slug":"a-spendthrift-ministry-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/02\/10\/a-spendthrift-ministry-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A spendthrift Ministry of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A report in today&#8217;s Diario Libre, Monday 10 February, focuses on the Ministry of Education&#8217;s free spending on transport vehicles and advertising. Diario Libre says that the Ministry of Education received RD$99.6 billion last year, in response to public demands for 4% of GDP to be assigned to education. Nonetheless, according to financial reports, the Ministry&#8217;s expenditure included a spending spree on transport equipment, including 35 luxury SUVs of the total of RD$624 million spent on new vehicles. This included the purchase of 160 pickups ordered for the Ministry. The Ministry has spent RD$53 million on advertising in addition to the advertising chapter already authorized by the Central Government.<\/p>\n<p> www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/2014\/02\/10\/i474931_ministerio-educacin-gast-vehculos-624-millones.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report in today&#8217;s Diario Libre, Monday 10 February, focuses on the Ministry of Education&#8217;s free spending on transport vehicles and advertising. Diario Libre says that the Ministry of Education received RD$99.6 billion last year, in response to public demands for 4% of GDP to be assigned to education. Nonetheless, according to financial reports, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/02\/10\/a-spendthrift-ministry-of-education\/\" 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":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38724"}],"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=38724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}