The mayor of Santo Domingo North, René Polanco, has proposed to the government that they move 340 families in the Las Cucarachas and Los Coordinadores areas of Sabana Perdida, who have had to leave their homes as the Ozama River rises after rain for more than 10 days.
Lamenting the situation and the effect on the families, he visited the area together with the director of the Presidency Social Plan, Iris Guaba and authorities from the State Canteens, who provided food rations to those affected.
Once there, Polanco took the opportunity to suggest to President Danilo Medina that the only way to solve the situation was to move the affected residents in the same way as was done with La Vieja Barquita. He went on to say he would send a new report to the President to see how a permanent solution could be found for the 66 families in Las Cucarachas neighborhood and 274 in Los Coordinadores, both in Sabana Perdida.
Mayor Polanco also ordered food aid to the residents of Brisas del Este, El Manguito, Hacienda Estrella, among others, also affected by rising rivers.
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El Nuevo Diario
3 May 2017
