MIDH is Expected to Submit Estimates for Damages to Infrastructure

The Briceño administration recently approved an additional one point five million dollars for the National Emergency Management Organization to aid in recovery efforts. However, in the coming days, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing is also expected to submit an estimated cost for repairing the damaged roads across the affected areas.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“We just approved in the budget for NEMO, in the last supplementary budget, I think we had one point five million dollars.  So we have to make that available and I am sure that when we speak with Minister Espat from MIDH and their team, and they come to tell us the level of damage that our highways and in the north, the sugar roads, roads for farmers, village roads, village streets, the amount of damage that they’ve had… It’s going to be substantial. Let’s see how we could assess the damage and get it done.  I think that what we want to see is that the central government gets the work done.  We work closely with the mayor, I believe we respect him and he is quite active in the work that does here, certainly in the twin towns and we are here to serve the people.”

 

Paul Lopez
“What can you tell us about residents living beyond the Bullet Tree Bridge and what they can expect by way of some sort of aid from government or any agency?”

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“The very same thing that we said we were going to do in all the villages.  In these areas, the area representatives are making assessments.  For instance, I think it was Calla Creek that also had some record flooding but the water ran off but there was damage to property.”