SANTO DOMINGO.- After concluding the third follow-up meeting, the Government announced that it will extend the suspension of working and teaching hours nationwide this Friday in the provinces under red alert due to the large amounts of rain resulting from the effects of Melissa.
President Luis Abinader, giving the floor to General Juan Manuel Méndez, director of the Operations and Emergency Center (COE), explained that the measures were ratified and the provinces of La Romana, Monte Plata and San Pedro de Macorís also entered the red alert.
“Both the Ministries of Labor and Public Administration will issue the corresponding resolutions. The financial sector will also be opened so that banks can operate,” he said.
He highlighted that the soils are saturated and everything that falls from now on becomes current.
superficial and will cause flooding in the province under red and yellow alert, but the others should not be neglected.
President Luis Abinader added that both the Ministry of Finance and the Comptroller’s Office will be open to be able to provide answers to financial aspects tomorrow, “we will be in permanent session. It is also important to emphasize that essential services are maintained, such as pharmacies, sales of medicines, sales of meals, sales, other essential services, fuel, transportation, those essential services are maintained.”
Gloria Ceballos, director of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet), said that in the next 24 hours, from 4 in the afternoon today until 4 in the afternoon tomorrow, accumulations of rain that could exceed 150 millimeters are expected on the southern coast.
The security
The Minister of the Interior and Police, Faride Raful, said that the National Police remains vigilant to reduce situations of “teteo” in the streets and to be able to preserve the lives of citizens “who sometimes unconsciously proceed to carry out actions that risk their lives and those of other people.”
He maintained that they have received some reports “and General Guzmán Peralta, director of the National Police, has taken action on the matter to preventively control and continue the work that we started today from Los Alcarrizos to the entire southern zone, which is the one that is evidently affected by this storm.”
The head of state indicated that the Ministry of Defense will join the preventive work in the next few hours to accompany the Police.
Report
Affected
As of last night, there were 140 displaced people, 42 sheltered, 26 affected homes and two communities.
incommunicado, according to Situation Report No.6 issued by the COE.
