NewsWhore
09-04-2007, 04:40 PM
The Santo Domingo Metro project continues to usurp public funds and Hoy is reporting that in July the government allocated more money to the Metro than to eight ministries combined. Education (RD$203,837,832.88), Public Health (RD$138,654.80), Armed Forces (RD$12 million), Sports Ministry (RD$28,770,693.34), Culture (RD$50 million), Agriculture (RD$5,164,519), Environmental Ministry (RD$4,329,617) and the Presidential Administrative office (RD$8,884,587.95), combined, received less money than the Metro. In July the Office for the Reorganization of Transit (OPRET), who oversees the Metro project, received RD$400 million in July and for the first six months of the year has received RD$2.85 billion. The only public office that received more funds than the Metro was the Ministry of Public Works, which received RD$400,978,348.
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