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130 more informatics labs

Minister of Education Ligia Amada Melo said that engineers recently received RD$6 million to prepare the physical facilities for the installation of 130 computer labs in 130 more high schools across the country. This is the second stage of the computer lab program that has sought to install computer labs in the principal high schools of the country. She said that the Ministry already has the computers, the tables and the air-conditioners. Thirty-eight labs will be installed in Santo Domingo; 21 in the South, five in the East, four in the Cibao, 14 in the Northeast, and 10 in the Northwest.