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La Ceiba. The educational community of La Ceiba, El Salado section, of the Verón-Punta Cana Municipal Tourist District, welcomed the new facilities of the César Nicolás Penson High School, but this is not enough for the community, who considered the construction of an aqueduct urgent, a hospital with its respective popular pharmacy and the paving of its streets.
Pastor Samuel Montilla, after thanking President Luis Abinader for the inauguration of a new high school, stated: “here in La Ceiba, not in the future but right now we need a primary care unit since the one that was built is very small and It has been closed for more than four years.”
Montilla also considered the conditions in the streets of La Ceiba to be deplorable. “We need the intervention of the Ministry of Public Works to fix our streets that are destroyed, and that must be in coordination with the local council.”
He expressed the adventures that residents in this community experience when health problems arise. “As part of a primary care unit, we need a town pharmacy because people have to go to Higüey + spending part of the money they need for their medicine on transportation.”
For her part, Mrs. Mirtha Herrera, former member of the Verón-Punta Cana Tourist District, agreed with Montilla when pointing out that the most important work is the construction of streets, sidewalks and curbs and the construction of a hospital. “We lack a hospital since this is a community that has an average of more than 30,000 inhabitants and the polyclinic we have is not enough since it was built when we only had about two thousand people.”
He expressed that the community continues to grow because there are not only 30,000 residents but also visitors, alluding to the ecotourism destination that is developed in La Ceiba, and that also includes the great tourist destination of Uvero Alto.
DRINKING WATER CRISIS, A RESULT OF POLITICAL NEGLECT
One of the problems that affects the daily lives of residents in La Ceiba is the lack of drinking water through pipes, a decades-old problem. Santos de La Cruz, a legendary resident of this community, attributed the lack of drinking water to the public policy criteria of the last governments.
He recalled that La Ceiba had drinking water in its houses, but that thirty years ago, due to lack of maintenance to the aqueduct system built in the Balaguer governments, only the pipes remain in their patios.
With marked nostalgia on his face for the Cross he said “they have forgotten about us and here we are all poor, buying water with a thousand difficulties from whoever can sell it to us.”
The complaint about the lack of water is the strongest that is perceived in this community. People express themselves freely around this most felt need. This community also does not have a sanitary sewer system.
THE NEW LYCEUM
In a ceremony attended by the President of the Republic, the educational community of La Ceiba received its new secondary school Liceo César Nicolás Penson in El Salado, Verón-Punta Cana. The work will benefit 840 students. The educational center, built with an investment of RD$135,436,377.73, has 24 classrooms, a library, a court, a teacher's lounge, a kitchen, green areas and other facilities. The work, carried out by the Ministry of Education, seeks to guarantee quality education in the tourist region.
STUDENTS ALSO CLAIM
Added to these community complaints is the request of a group of young high school students who took advantage of the availability of our cameras to ask the government to deliver tablets or mini laptops to facilitate their learning.
The community of La Ceiba, despite the great population and economic development it presents, is a place in the El Salado section and is part of the Verón-Punta Cana Municipal Tourist District, La Altagracia province.