President confident DR will get over problems
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President Leonel Fernandez Reyna declared yesterday in Santiago that in spite of the world economic crisis his government would work with intelligence to reactivate and energize the country’s economic activities in 2009.
The government leader said that the economy would be reactivated with infrastructure projects, using public funding and concessions. He explained that if these projects are approved by the Congress, a sizable growth can be achieved and the country will be able to face successfully the adversities of the crisis.
He said that direct foreign investments are arriving in tourist sector of the Dominican Republic, and these will help face up to the difficulties.
The Chief Executive indicated that these projects will represent, over the next four years, an investment of five billion dollars and create 25,000 direct jobs.
The President spoke with reporters after heading up the re-inauguration of the Inespre supermarket in Cuesta Colorada, Santiago.
Earlier, Fernandez handed out Christmas boxes to poor families in Hoyo de Caimito and Cienfuegos, and in barrios in Moca and La Vega.
In the barrio Palmarito, La Vega, Fernandez talked with the city’s mayor, Fausto Ruiz, who is fighting with the Electricity Distributor of the North (Ede Norte), and the conflict has not allowed the municipal workers to collect their December Christmas bonuses.
In the evening, the President headed a dinner held in the 24 de Abril barrio in Santo Domingo. Similar dinners were held in 130 barrios around the country that participate in the Barrio Seguro program. The dinners cost a total of RD$20 million.
The activity was held at the corner of 39th Street and 30 de Mayo in the barrio, a part of the northern sector of Santo Domingo, where the President said he was honored to be able to share with his people on the evening before Christmas Eve.
He added, “It is an honor to greet all of you here, and a pleasure to share with you on this day before Christmas Eve, since by sharing with you, I am sharing with the Dominican people.”
Fernandez was accompanied by his wife, Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez, and he ate “Moro de guandules, roast pork, Russian salad, and the special “telera” type of bread, all the most typical of foods for the holidays, and he drank a glass of a soft drink.
The dinner that is an attempt to strengthen the ties of friendship and brotherhood among the community was organized by the Ministry of the Interior and of the Police and served 4000 poor families. Ten pigs and 350 chickens were part of the menu.
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