The Government has only applied 3.80% of the 4% that corresponds to the Ministry of Education and it is projected that it will stop executing 60 billion pesos of what was budgeted for this year, announced today the former Minister of Education, Melanio Paredes.
“If at the end of the year they end up spending only 3.80% of the Gross Domestic Product, that means they will save 60 billion pesos. Last year, 25 billion pesos were not spent and that is exactly what the President says they will save,” said the former official this morning.
He explained that during the administration of former President Danilo Medina, 3.98% of GDP was allocated, and during Abinader’s administration, 3.80%, “which represents 60 billion pesos that have not been implemented, according to what is budgeted for this year.”
Merger of ministries
The leader of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) said that what is sought with the merger of the Ministries of Education (Minerd), which governs the pre-university level, and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Mescyt), is a financial balance, so that the resources not used by the Minerd are assigned to other institutions.
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“That is to say, it means that what is being proposed in the merger proposal is to take that money from the Minerd’s pocket to put it in the pocket of the Presidency, without anything happening in the Mescyt or the Minerd, which has been widely rejected, not only by the opposition but by the Government itself,” he said.
Stigma
Interviewed this morning on the Hoy Mismo program, broadcast on Color Visión, channel 9, the opposition leader described as a stigma the praise made by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to his Dominican counterpart, Luis Abinader, for the Dominican Republic’s fight against drugs.
“What may be a distinction, for me is a stigma. There are praises that kill, because Biden himself compiled a list last week of countries that are important bridges for drug trafficking, and that includes the Dominican Republic,” he said.
Alert
“I just want to draw attention to the fact that people should not be carried away by certain praises and appearances, because they can be a stigma, because the Dominican Republic is among those countries as an important bridge for drug trafficking,” he said.
“What I want is to call attention to ourselves so that we do not fall into the zombie world that exists on a street in Belgium. “I would not like the Dominican Republic to suffer the misfortune of seeing human waste produced by synthetic drugs, because when you start as a source you end up as a consumer,” he said.
Belgium
He pointed out that Belgium, another of the recognized countries, is the gateway for drugs to Europe, which has turned it into a violent city due to drug trafficking, so he downplayed Biden’s praise for Abinader.
Investment
