NewsWhore
10-15-2007, 04:50 PM
The first eight months of spending this year on the Santo Domingo metro construction project, the biggest ever undertaken in the Dominican Republic, have seen the most funding ever. The project has received RD$3.25 billion so far, more than seven other ministries combined. And we are not talking of the smaller ministries, but ministries that in previous administrations were considered the choicest plums. These are Education, Public Works, Armed Forces, Sports, Agriculture, Planning and Higher Education, Science and Technology. The first line of the metro is due for completion in February 2008, as promised by President Fernandez, at a cost now said to be RD$25.0 billion, just slightly over the initial RD$900 million budget when the project was first announced.
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