{"id":48920,"date":"1998-12-09T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-12-09T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/government-frees-funds-for-cea-debt-repairs\/"},"modified":"1998-12-09T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-12-09T01:43:56","slug":"government-frees-funds-for-cea-debt-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/12\/09\/government-frees-funds-for-cea-debt-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Government frees funds for CEA debt, repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sugar Council (CEA) Director Oscar Santiago Batista told a press conference last night that President Fern&aacute;ndez yesterday gave him the checks to pay off CEA debts to workers and plantation owners and make needed repairs to sugar mills. CEA received RD$100 million to pay back wages to sugar workers, some of whom have not been paid since early 1998. Sugar workers recently picketed the National Palace demanding their pay. RD$70 million was provided to pay off debt owed to sugar plantation owners. RD$30 million was given to pay for badly needed repairs to several sugar mills, such as the one in Barahona, so that they will be ready to process the current harvest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sugar Council (CEA) Director Oscar Santiago Batista told a press conference last night that President Fern&aacute;ndez yesterday gave him the checks to pay off CEA debts to workers and plantation owners and make needed repairs to sugar mills. CEA received RD$100 million to pay back wages to sugar workers, some of whom have not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/12\/09\/government-frees-funds-for-cea-debt-repairs\/\" 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":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48920"}],"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=48920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}