Minister of Education Ligia Amada Melo said that the migration from rural areas to urban areas is bringing about a change in the construction policy of the Ministry. She said that if the flow continues, in ten years the school houses located in rural areas will have to be given different uses. She said that the ministry has had to build more schools in urban areas. Jobs are created in tourism destinations and in areas where free zones are located. Thus is the case of Santiago, Puerto Plata, Sosua, Gaspar Hernández, Cabrera and Río San Juan on the North Coast, for example. She said that new schools will have to go up along with the construction of hotels rooms and free zones. Schools in the cities of San Cristóbal, Baní, Azua, Puerto Plata and Santiago are full to the brim with students, and the Ministry contemplates the construction of new school rooms in these urban areas.
