President Danilo Medina appointed long-standing deputy minister of Public Works Claudia Franchesca de los Santos as the first executive director of the new Instituto Nacional de Tránsito y Transporte (Intrant). The new government agency consolidates 14 transport-related entities of the government. The Presidency ordered the Intrant start operations on 1 July 2017.
Others appointed are: Alexandra Cedeño, director of the Dirección de Movilidad Sostenible; Milcíades Pérez Polanco, to the Dirección de Transporte de Carga and Manuel Ernesto Fabián to the Dirección de Transporte de Pasajeros. Also, Víctor Luis Núñez, to direct the Dirección de Seguridad Vial; María Paz Conde, director of the Dirección de Tránsito y Viabilidad, and Cándido Cordero, director of the Dirección de Vehículos de Motor.
The Presidency named regional coordinators: Miguel Arcángel Sánchez for the del Valle region and Deidania del Carmen Ferreira Rojas, for the North Cibao region. Alejandro Benito Vólquez for the Higuamo region; Luis Arquímedes Grandel for the Valdesia region; Fernando Ramírez Filpo for the Northeast and Radhamés de los Santos Liriano for the Ozama and Roberto Leandro Lamarcha, for the Cibao-Sur region.
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El Caribe
4 July 2017
