The head of the Directorate of Public-Private Partnerships (dgapp), Sigmund Freund Mena, reported this Friday that in 20 days the start of the construction of a third hotel which is part of the Pedernales-Cabo Rojo Tourism Development Plan.
The official told journalists that, within the framework of the project work, they are preparing the final phase of the elaboration of the specifications to launch the tender for the cabo rojo airport.
“We are moving quickly with all of the infrastructure that is needed. The idea is that from the middle of this year to the end we finish all the part of infrastructure road and drinking water“, held.
He added that these works are expedited so that the hotels that must be in inauguration phase from the first and second quarter of the year “have your works ready”.
the golf course
About him golf coursewhich was excluded voluntarily from the project, Mena indicated: “We moved one of the golf courses for a matter of respecting the endemic flora that arose from the environmental impact study and the load study. We moved it to an area that was already impacted.”
The official maintained that the issue of water in the countryside will not be a problem, since within the plumbing solutionthe black wateralready treated, will be the ones that irrigate the golf courses.
The holder of the dgapp added that, after carrying out water studies under the project, the authorities have identified a 50% additional water to the previously identified liquid.
“The challenge now is protect the wells and comply with the requirements that the Ministry of the Environment has”, he concluded.
Titles of protected areas of Pedernales are delivered to the Environment
Mena expressed himself in these terms after the act of delivery of the property title certificates in favor of the State, which correspond to the protected areas de Pedernales, which adjoins the Cabo Rojo Tourism Development project, to the Ministry of the Environment for safekeeping.
The Minister of the Environment, Miguel Ceara Hatton, appreciated the action of the dgappconsidering that receiving the degree certificates “represents one of the greatest achievements” that the governing body for the environment can exhibit in favor of the protected areas in the interest of continuing to meet the goal that has been set to strengthen the protection of natural resources.
Ceara Hatton also referred to Law 202-04, which establishes that it is the responsibility of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources to administer, guide and program the management and development of the National System of Protected Areas (Sinap), including the promotion of scientific, educational, recreational, touristic activities, and of any kind, and the execution of all kinds of agreements, contracts or agreements for the administration of services that these areas require, individually or jointly.
