Environment Minister Miguel Ceara Hatton toured the Duquesa garbage site with officials of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the cooperation agencies of Spain and Japan on 12 March 2024. Ceara Hatton presented the progress of the first phase of the Technical and Progressive Closure Project of the Duquesa Landfill that involves an investment of US$110 million.
The Ministry of Environment and the IDB have expressed satisfaction in the advances towards the closing of the landfill.
Ceara Hatton hosted the IDB representative in the country, Katharina Falkner-Olmedo, and IDB executive directors who were in the Dominican Republic for the General Assembly of Governors of the IDB and IDB Invest that took place in Punta Cana last week.
Falkner-Olmedo stated: “This was a landfill where it was difficult to walk. I remember the first time I came out with my shoes dirty. The smell was so strong that one could hardly breathe and today look where I am. We are on top of the landfill, the landfill that I hope will be able to be in about five or seven months, a park with a baseball field.”
Others at the visit were: Huáscar Peña, from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); Manuel Alba Cana, coordinator of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aecid), Sergio Pérez, Water and Sanitation specialist at the IDB, Miguel Baruzze, head of operations at the IDB and Benoit Lefevre, specialist in Climate Change at the IDB.
Also present was Betty Gerónimo, elected mayor of the Santo Domingo Norte municipality.
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13 March 2024