After the president Luis Abinader yesterday head a council of ministers in the municipality of Higueythe government reported that a investment for more than 18,500 million pesos in the province Altagraciawhich he claimed has doubled its population.
“We can announce that the government has been executing a series of projects that exceed 18.5 billion pesos, and that over the next few years the investment in emblematic projects will increase,” said the Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Palizawho served as spokesperson for the forty-seventh Council of Ministers.
In this sense, the official announced an investment of about US$110 million for a sewerage project of Higuey.
“It is also appropriate to say that since tourism is the fundamental engine of the development of the province of La Altagracia and above all, that a large part of the Dominican economy moves from here, if we compare the months of January to October 2019 with January to October 2024, tourism has grown in this province by 37%,” he said.
He minister of the presidency He pointed out that hotel occupancy has gone from 79% to 88%, the result of the policies applied by the authorities in the recovery of tourism after the pandemic.
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Paliza specified that during the government council, which lasted about four hours, different parameters and areas of health, tourism, education, housing and transportation were analyzed, and in this sense, the construction of the ring road of The Other Bandin Higüey, with an investment of RD$400 million.
“It has been a fruitful meeting between the public sector and the private sector of this province, where we touched on topics where the most important issues of life in society were touched upon, including the renovation of the Anamuya prison, as well as on “canyoning the river.” Duey, which is executed by the Ministry of Public Works with an investment of RD$1,200 million,” he stressed.
He added that this work on that tributary, in its completion part, will have a great impact on the most vulnerable population of that municipality, since it frequently suffered from overflowing, apparently due to the effects of climate change and gave as an example the damage caused by the storm
President
President Luis Abinader, when questioned about the classroom deficit that exists in the municipality of Higüey, pointed out the efforts made by the government he heads to end this problem by 2025.
“It is good to point out that we discussed this issue here (during the government council) and about 270 new classrooms are needed, of which there are approximately 170 under construction that will be ready for the new school year,” he told the head of state. during the council that lasted about four hours, and was also attended by Vice President Raquel Peña, as well as ministers and directors.
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He said that for the other classrooms, they are already looking for light construction methods, to also try to have them ready.
“In any case, 60% of the classroom deficit in the entire Dominican Republic occurred in the province of La Altagracia, due to the enormous growth of the population and specifically new job opportunities. The Government is working, and not a single child was left out of the classrooms and we did all the work and adaptations so that they will not stay,” he told the president when answering questions from journalists.
The council was held on the campus of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) Higüey extension, where the priorities of the place were analyzed.
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Tourism
Regarding the growth of tourism in La Altagracia, José Ignacio Paliza said that this province has had exponential population growth.
Regarding this, the official stated that from 2010 to 2022 its population will almost double, going from about 273 thousand inhabitants to 456 thousand inhabitants. Paliza stressed that these numbers do not measure the floating population, since it is a tourist province, an economic area that is its main driving force.
“Population growth has become a need, a demand for service, which the government has addressed in the same need for growth.
