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09-28-2011, 02:20 PM
President Leonel Fernandez formally inaugurated the project to repair the Bavaro-Uvero Alto-Miches-Sabana de la Mar road today. The project includes the construction of a port terminal at Sabana de la Mar to improve transport links to Los Haitises and Samana. The project has a budget of US$265 million.
Marcelo Odebrecht, president of the Brazilian Odebrecht engineering company, a major contractor for public works in the Fernandez administration, was present.
Also attending was Frank Rainieri, president of the Grupo Puntacana, operator of the PUJ International Airport, and Gustavo Cisneros, president of Grupo Cisneros, a major landowner in the Miches area.
The roadworks include a new 13.5km road connecting Miches to the Boulevard Turistico del Este that is under construction in the Punta Cana area.
Governors of El Seibo and La Altagracia, Juan Ramon Sanchez and Rafael Baron Duluc highlighted the importance of the work for the area, as reported in El Caribe. However, Jacobo Payano Santana, the parish priest from San Antonio de Padua in Miches called on the authorities not to behave like crows and complained of the lack of schools, running water and other basic services.
Public Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua announced at the groundbreaking ceremony that the government is improving the Samana-Sanchez and Sanchez-Nagua roads, and that these works will extend to the Nagua-Cabrera-Rio San Juan-Gaspar Hernandez-Cabarete coastal road.
El Caribe reports that yesterday the Chamber of Deputies approved three loans in a first reading for US$285 million worth of public works to be allocated to Odebrecht. The funds are being provided by the Brazilian export bank, BNDES. They include US$185 million for the reconstruction of the Bavaro-Uvero Alto-Miches-Sabana de la Mar highway and port construction in Sabana de la Mar. Others to be contracted are a US$50 million loan for Odebrecht to work on the reconstruction of the El Rio-Jarabacoa highway, and US$50 million for aqueduct works in the province of Hermanas Mirabal.
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Marcelo Odebrecht, president of the Brazilian Odebrecht engineering company, a major contractor for public works in the Fernandez administration, was present.
Also attending was Frank Rainieri, president of the Grupo Puntacana, operator of the PUJ International Airport, and Gustavo Cisneros, president of Grupo Cisneros, a major landowner in the Miches area.
The roadworks include a new 13.5km road connecting Miches to the Boulevard Turistico del Este that is under construction in the Punta Cana area.
Governors of El Seibo and La Altagracia, Juan Ramon Sanchez and Rafael Baron Duluc highlighted the importance of the work for the area, as reported in El Caribe. However, Jacobo Payano Santana, the parish priest from San Antonio de Padua in Miches called on the authorities not to behave like crows and complained of the lack of schools, running water and other basic services.
Public Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua announced at the groundbreaking ceremony that the government is improving the Samana-Sanchez and Sanchez-Nagua roads, and that these works will extend to the Nagua-Cabrera-Rio San Juan-Gaspar Hernandez-Cabarete coastal road.
El Caribe reports that yesterday the Chamber of Deputies approved three loans in a first reading for US$285 million worth of public works to be allocated to Odebrecht. The funds are being provided by the Brazilian export bank, BNDES. They include US$185 million for the reconstruction of the Bavaro-Uvero Alto-Miches-Sabana de la Mar highway and port construction in Sabana de la Mar. Others to be contracted are a US$50 million loan for Odebrecht to work on the reconstruction of the El Rio-Jarabacoa highway, and US$50 million for aqueduct works in the province of Hermanas Mirabal.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)