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Santo Domingo.– Two people have now died from the torrential rains that for two days have lashed the north and other parts of the Dominican Republic, while 4,565 people have been evacuated, local rescue authorities announced Saturday.
According to the Emergencies Operations Center (COE), Alcibiades Cespedes, 54, died after being swept away by the Veragua River in the northern province of Espaillat. His death is added to that of Luis Alberto Bonis, 34, who drowned Friday after the waters of a stream in the northern province of Puerto Plata carried him and his motorcycle away.
The COE also said that 4,565 people have been evacuated from their homes in the provinces of Puerto Plata and Espaillat, both areas on yellow alert and where 913 homes have been flooded.
The provinces on green alert are San Pedro de Macoris, Hato Mayor, El Seibo in the east, Santiago Rodriguez, Montecristi, Dajabon, Valverde in the northwest, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Duarte and Samana in the northeast.
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1. METROS
2. Building and over abundance of all inclusive resorts thereby depressing prices for all.
Now lets jump down to the bottom of the list of priorities
1,000,000. Flood Control
1,000,001. Education
congrats palomo
That's a new word for the dictionary.
Looked it up in wilkipieda and found no answers.
Gov't needs to make infrastructure a clear priority to improve life, foster private sector investment. This is definitely a gov't responsibility, so let's get going with it-much sooner than later!
From: United States, New York, Finger Lakes Region
(Extensive losses; no insurance. Clearly a sad tragedy.
Gov't needs to make infrastructure a clear priority to improve life, foster private sector investment. This is definitely a gov't responsibility, so let's get going with it-much sooner than later!)
Gee, that sounds like New Orleans! And they had been warned years in advance and did nothing... infrastructure all over USA is crumbling, bridges falling down and killing people...so repair your own house amigo!
I make no excuses for our local problems in USA. We, however, are a rich country which is not standing in the corner with a hand out for contributions. DR, on other hand, does and is in dire need of foreign investment to attain basic level of economic growth. I do believe that having such infrastructure in place will greatly facilitate attainment of this objective.