President Louis Abinader gave the first peck to start construction work on the entrance to the city of Santa Bárbara de Samana at a cost of 300 million pesos.
The work, carried out by the Ministry of Public Works It will have an intervention of 3.3 kilometers from the municipal district of El Limón until reaching the main municipality of the province.
While the head of Public Works, Deligne Ascensión, said that the government has already delivered works worth 500 million pesos.
“The investment in works delivered this Sunday by President Luis Abinader in the Samaná province, executed by the Ministry of Public Works, totals 500 million pesos.specified the holder of the portfolio.
He said that these 500 million They were used in the El Limón bridge, asphalt paving in the Santa Bárbara-Samaná sectors, Anabel beach areas, Villa Clara, Villa Felix, Loma de Colón, Javier alley, the construction of the El Limón, El Naranjo, Cabeza de Toro and Las Garitas.
Likewise, the building of local roads in Agua Sabrosa and Palmarito. Likewise, the construction of 1.8 km of sidewalks, embankments, potholes, laying of pipes in El Limón, asphalting of the Batida and Jacoba sectors, including del.pley street and William Johnson avenue, and what is equivalent to the laying of 317 cubic meters of asphalt.
About the construction of the entrance to the ProvinceDeligne stated that, “once the work is finished, the residents of Samaná will feel proud of the first impression they will give to the visitors of the demarcation”.
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Samana Malecon
Also, the president Abinader and the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, led the presentation ceremony of the so-called Malecón Project, which seeks to add value to the tourism proposal of this province and have a favorable impact on the community of the main municipality.
The Projectwhich will cost RD$449,000,000, aims to improve the storm drainage conditions of the Santa Barbara boardwalk, by increasing the capacities of the conduits that connect the town’s river and the Panchita ravine with the ocean.
The Pueblo Viejo river and the Panchita ravine are the main bodies that transport the waters municipal rainwater.
Both President Abinader and the Minister of Tourism, David Collado, highlighted the importance of the work, which will directly impact the main municipality and will give a major redo to the colorful San Felipe boardwalk.
Expressing a few words, President Abinader said that with the effort and work carried out in favor of tourism to date, 534,568 tourists have reached June 25, “this is 9% above 2019 and 51% above 2021 and represents in economic growth numbers between 28% and 31% of economic growth.
On your side, hill He stated that “today we are here attending to an old claim of this municipality of San Felipe and leaving a clear message that we will spare no effort to ensure that this tourist destination reaches its highest level.”
With this intervention, it will be possible to improve the drainage conditions, by replacing three (3) existing Rib-Loc pipes of 60″ in diameter, by the construction of a multiple culvert of six (6) rectangular reinforced concrete channels of 4.30 m wide and 1.65 m high. This will increase the capacity to conduct water from 20.31 m3/s to 107.70 m3/s, 5.3 times the current capacity.
Other important work is the construction of a sewer Double-section concrete caisson, approximately 150 m long, which will connect the Panchita ravine, from Rosa Duarte street to the boardwalk.
Six more units of pipes will also be replaced by concrete sewers, in order to increase discharge capacity.
In addition to the aforementioned works, the sanitation of more than 500 linear meters of the town’s river and the Panchita ravine stands out, which will consist of the removal of sludge, solid waste and sediment, reprofiling of the sections and embedding of some sections, to expand the sections of the channels and improve the water conduction.
President inaugurates weighing station and highlights investment to preserve the environment
Similarly, when presiding over the activity of the weighing station, the head of state highlighted the investment in these 22 months of government for the execution of projects aimed at the preservation of the environment.
When inaugurating a solid waste weighing station in Samaná, he cited the intervention of 11 landfills with an investment of about 500 million pesos and five weighing stations, two of which will be delivered in the coming days.
He highlighted the intervention of 29 kilometers of ravines by the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewerage Corporation (Caasd) in these 22 months of management and stated that before 2020 only 6 kilometers were intervened.
He said that in Santiago they work in the Gurabo ravine, which is responsible for the contamination of 35 percent of the Yaque del Norte River.
In the intervention carried out by the National Institute of Potable Water and Sewage (Inapa) and the Santiago Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Ciraasan), 1,200 million pesos are invested between the intervention of the canyon and the transfer of the people who live in vulnerability zones near the ravine.
He stressed that in order to continue carrying out works for the benefit of the protection of the environment and groundwater in the country, Inapa’s budget was quintupled by taking it from less than 2,000 million to take it to about 11,000 million, to which are added the collections of that entity.
Weigh Station
The solid waste weighing station inaugurated in the La Guada sector, Samaná, executed by the General Directorate of Strategic and Special Projects of the Presidency (Propeep), is number three put into operation in the current administration. Previously, one was inaugurated in Higüey and another in Haina as part of the Sanitary Landfill Intervention Program.
To complete five, in the next few days one will be delivered in Las Terrenas and another in Nagua.
Propeep action in La Guada
Another important activity in which the president participated was the supervision of the social inclusion day “First You” number 30 developed by the General Directorate of Strategic and Special Projects of the Presidency (Propeep).
The president, addressing those present at the Andrea de Peña Educational Center, in the María Luisa de Samaná sector, said that, in addition to helping citizens, these conferences intend for Dominicans to learn about the programs that their government runs to improve their living conditions.
He recalled that government assistance reaches all citizens regardless of political factions and called on people to become social promoters of state aid institutions.
On his side, the minister in charge of Propepp, Neney Cabrerasaid that around 100,000 Dominicans benefit from the services offered in these 30 days of social inclusion.
He defined the actions as the “act with the greatest social impact” of the current administration and recalled that for this government the first thing is the well-being of the people.
Services offered
On the day, some 2,500 citizens received the services of the National Disability Councils (Conadis), the Aging Person (Conape), National Health Service (SNS), the National Health Insurance (Senasa), the national institutes for Early Childhood Care (Inaipi), Price Stabilization (Inespre) and the State Economic Kitchens.
Also the Vocational Schools of the Armed Forces and the National Police, the Program for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (Promipyme) and the Technological Institutes of the Americas (Itla) and the National Professional Technical Training Institute (Infotep).
Cards are delivered Supérate
President Luis Abinader also attended the act of inclusion of the Supérate family that was held at the Nativity Zuleica de Acosta Polytechnic in the Baret neighborhood where the ruler handed out thousands of cards.
In this activity, which is headed by the Social Subsidies Administration (ADESS), the president greeted hundreds of people and said that this program seeks the progress and improvement of families.
Hotel Hacienda Samana Bay
About 800 jobs will be generated with the opening of the first phase of the residential-tourist Hacienda Samaná Bay with 120 apartments, whose total investment will exceed US$100 million by the company INDEBAY.
Hacienda Samaná Bay HSB covers a total of 200,000 m2 of land and will have more than 400 homes developed in different phases.
President Abinader was accompanied by the Administrative Ministers of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza; of Tourism, David Collado; Without Portfolio, Geanilda Vásquez; the Comptroller, Catalino Correa Hiciano and the Administrative Deputy Minister, Igor González.
Also Senator Pedro Catrein; the governor, Teodora Mullix Geraldino.
