{"id":41702,"date":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/government-denies-having-advanced-rd513-million-for-northwest-aqueduct\/"},"modified":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","slug":"government-denies-having-advanced-rd513-million-for-northwest-aqueduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/01\/31\/government-denies-having-advanced-rd513-million-for-northwest-aqueduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Government denies having advanced RD$513 million for Northwest Aqueduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tem&iacute;stocles Mont&aacute;s, Technical Secretary of the Presidency, denied that the government has paid a RD$513 million advance towards the construction of the Northwest Aqueduct. He made the statement in response to an inquiry repeatedly made by president of the Senate, Ram&oacute;n Alburquerque. Visibly mad, when asked about the matter of journalists, he said that Alburquerque is well aware of this as he was the head of a commission that suggested to the government the carrying out of the Northwest Aqueduct project, with financing included. He said that Alburqueque is &quot;deliberately, and intentionally lying to the country, trying to manipulate public opinion, trying to hide now his responsibility with that contract.&quot; Mont&aacute;s said the Northwest Aqueduct project was presented to the government by Alburquerque (PRD-Monte Plata, Jos&eacute; Gonz&aacute;lez Espinosa (PRD-Barahona) and Dar&iacute;o G&oacute;mez (PRD-Santiago Rodr&iacute;guez).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tem&iacute;stocles Mont&aacute;s, Technical Secretary of the Presidency, denied that the government has paid a RD$513 million advance towards the construction of the Northwest Aqueduct. He made the statement in response to an inquiry repeatedly made by president of the Senate, Ram&oacute;n Alburquerque. Visibly mad, when asked about the matter of journalists, he said that Alburquerque &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/01\/31\/government-denies-having-advanced-rd513-million-for-northwest-aqueduct\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41702"}],"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=41702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}