{"id":8874,"date":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/government-phone-bill\/"},"modified":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T01:43:56","slug":"government-phone-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2005\/02\/08\/government-phone-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Government phone bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The government has accepted that its debt with Verizon stands at RD$433.6 million for arrears in several departments. According to Diario Libre, the agriculture ministry owes RD$26.5 million, the Police RD$40 million, Education RD$20.5 million, JCE RD$16 million, the Army RD$15 million and the Presidential Palace RD$15 million. Hoy newspaper reports that at the start of the Mejia administration, the bill was RD$36 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has accepted that its debt with Verizon stands at RD$433.6 million for arrears in several departments. According to Diario Libre, the agriculture ministry owes RD$26.5 million, the Police RD$40 million, Education RD$20.5 million, JCE RD$16 million, the Army RD$15 million and the Presidential Palace RD$15 million. Hoy newspaper reports that at the start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2005\/02\/08\/government-phone-bill\/\" 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":[224,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874"}],"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=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}