On Sunday, 20 May 2018, President Danilo Medina toured border provinces and again promised to build the infrastructure necessary to improve access of the region’s population to drinking water and electricity. He visited Los Cacaos, Pedro Santana, Elías Piña, and Restauración in Elías Piña and Dajabón provinces.
As reported by the Presidency, Medina expressed the government’s intent to implement policies to improve living conditions in that part of the country and interacted with farmers who expressed their interest in raising goats and sheep. He also heard about a nursery project to expand production of trees saplings in an effort to reforest the mountainous areas of Hondo Valle and Sabaneta. The nursery is presently operated through a partnership between the communities and the Ministry of the Environment.
Residents also asked for equipment to improve the irrigation system, for agriculture and the nurseries as well as every day use as a tornado had damaged the existing equipment.
President Medina was also shown the observation tower Las Palmitias from where the border with Haiti can be observed.
On this trip, President Medina was accompanied by the Administrative Minister of the Presidency José Ramón Peralta; Defense Minister Lieutenant General Rubén Darío Paulino Sem; Public Works Minister Gonzalo Castillo and Agriculture Minister Osmar Benítez. Also on the visit were the directors of the Dominican Agrarian Institute, Emilio Toribio Olivo, and the Technical Unit for the Execution of Agro Forestry Development Projects, Major General Rafael Emilio De Luna Pichirilo; the vice minister of Community Production and Development, Juan Pumarol, and the President’s special assistants, Carlos Pared and Robert de la Cruz.
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22 May 2018
