NewsWhore
03-09-2007, 03:20 PM
The government's continued efforts to keep anything connected to the Santo Domingo Metro under wraps is now bordering on ridiculous, even if all the secrecy is aimed at avoiding criticism about a project that is being constructed with a huge amount of public funds that should be spent on the health or education sectors. The "Que se dice" - What's being said - column in Hoy newspaper continues by saying that the Budget department has not published its monthly list of government department budgets for the past month. "Does this mean that the ministries of Education, Environment, Public Works or Health did not receive public funds for construction that month?" asked the author sarcastically. "Of course not," he replied and explained that the government is refusing to publish the budget figures so that a comparison between the budgets for government department and the Metro could not be made. This of course is just another example of how far the government is willing to travel on those very non- transparent roads, according to the columnist.
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