On Sunday, 11 March 2018, President Danilo Medina was in Tierra Nueva near the southwestern Jimani border crossing in Independencia province and spoke of new policies to support Dominicans in the area so that they did not feel the need to migrate away from the border. The President announced he would be making more frequent visits to the border.
Medina promised to install irrigation pumps in the AC-053 farming project, to maintain the roads, to build a new rural housing development, a school, provide a bus to transport students, improve the electrical grid, build a hospital and open a low cost pharmacy. He met with people from the AC-053 project who said that their main problem was the lack of electricity and water for crops.
President Medina, during his trip on Sunday, 11 March 2018, also visited nearby municipality of Duvergé to inspect the AC-584 farming project where he had visited during his first term in office, in October 2012.
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13 March 2018
