Senate approves US$15 million loan

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The Dominican Senate has approved a US$15 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The money will go towards establishing an emergency prevention program and for the shoring up of the national statistics system. In yesterday evening's session, the Senate gave its approval after receiving a report from the Treasury Committee, headed by PLD senator Tommy Galan from San Cristobal. Five million dollars will be used to provide cities with teams for environmental management, risk evaluations and equipment to provide disaster relief. The remaining ten million will go towards improving the collection of statistics, including personnel training and new computer equipment.

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