{"id":227298,"date":"2024-11-25T08:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=227298"},"modified":"2024-11-25T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:35:57","slug":"first-phase-of-border-wall-is-near-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/11\/25\/first-phase-of-border-wall-is-near-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"First phase of border wall is near completion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-1024x695.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209724\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-1024x695.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre.png 1394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential Minister Jose Ignacio Paliza told reporters that the initial phase of the 50 km border fencing is about 84% finished, and is expected to be completed and delivered in February 2025. The Dominican-Haitian border is approximately 390 km long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he took part in a survey of the project alongside of Minister of Defense Fernandez Onofre, Paliza said that the government had invested close to RD$2.0 billion in the project (+\/-US$32 million) in the construction of the structure that divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, the government is expected to invest RD$2.39 billion in the completion of this first phase of the wall, a much-discussed effort to control access to the Dominican Republic and maintain control over the frontier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, Paliza announced that the government would soon open a tender for the second phase of 110 km, or more than double the initial phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/primera-fase-del-muro-dominicano-con-haiti-esta-al-84\/\">Hoy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/actualidad\/paliza-supervisa-construccion-de-verja-perimetral-entre-rd-y-haiti-9425124.html\">Acento <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 November 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential Minister Jose Ignacio Paliza told reporters that the initial phase of the 50 km border fencing is about 84% finished, and is expected to be completed and delivered in February 2025. The Dominican-Haitian border is approximately 390 km long. As he took part in a survey of the project alongside of Minister of Defense &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/11\/25\/first-phase-of-border-wall-is-near-completion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227348,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227298\/revisions\/227348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}