Dr and Haiti remember anniversary of the earthquake

Dominican Republic and Haiti will recall this Thursday the second anniversary of the earthquake of January 12, 2010, in the place where the Dominican State built a University that will donate two years after the worst disaster that occurred on the island in the last century to its neighbor as a gesture of solidarity.

President Leonel Fernandez is expected in Limonade, 15 kilometres south of Cap-Haïtien in the North of Haiti, where the Government and the private sector Dominicans built the University complex with an investment of more than 30 million dollars.

A. Limonade will also travel from Port-au-Prince Haitian President Michel Martelly, who on Monday thanked the Dominican Government for their "willingness to cooperate for a better Haiti for the island".

"President Fernandez has shown with the University, with the dispatch of a delegation in every crisis, with your help after the earthquake", Martelly told directory u000aJOURNAL.

Henri Christophe of State University of Haiti (UEH), work that was carried out in 15 months, is a modern facility educational with four buildings of eighteen classrooms, one laboratory and one for the library and areas administrative.

The buildings of the complex are built around a square covered in translucent vinyl which will serve as a meeting room. Also has a dining room equipped with a modern industrial kitchen, a soccer field and track athletics.

The work was carried out by the Dominican construction company sea, and in its execution stepped in mostly Haitian labor under the supervision of experts Dominicans.

LISTÍN DIARIO "Is a great initiative because universities are needed in Haiti," said the Minister of culture and communication, Pierre Raimond Dumas.

The official added that the best of the project is built outside Port-au-Prince, fact that will benefit to u000athousands of young Haitians. The contribution was also highlighted by Jean Claude Francois, Secretary of State for higher education in Haiti; and Yve Voltaire, rector of the University of Les Cayes, who this week took part in a panel organized by Funglode in Santo Domingo. President Fernandez will travel to Haiti accompanied by First Lady Margarita Cedeño, and by Chancellor Carlos Morales Troncoso, among other officials of his Government

The opening ceremony will be preceded by a reception with full military honours Martelly will give Fernández on his arrival in the country. According to the Dominican Presidency, the inauguration will take place at 11: 00 local time (12: 00 RD), with the blessing in charge of the Archdiocese of Cape Haitian, Monsignor Louis Delavois Manguira, arhbishop and presented a video that explains the details of the construction

Ceremony will include the reading of a decree of the President Martelly which sets out the terms u000aestablished for the operation of the complex, speeches by order of the two leaders, ribbon cutting, the develación of a commemorative tarja and a journey through different areas of the University.

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Embassy Ambassador SILIÉ work highlights: President Leonel Fernandez will inaugurate today in Port-au-Prince headquarters of the residence of the Embassy of Dominican Republic in Haiti, whose previous structure was seriously damaged by the earthquake of January 12, 2010.

The Dominican Republic in Haiti, Rubén Silié, Ambassador told LISTÍN DIARIO that the work, executed in just eight months, and raised in an area of 800 square meters, will be completed this year with the construction of the building of the Embassy and consulate Dominican land surrounding the current headquarters diplomatic.

"The main difference with the previous residence is that the new has a suite" u000a"presidential", explained Silié.

Fernández will head the Act after participating in the opening ceremony of the University that the Dominican State built in the North of Haiti and donating to that country as a sign of solidarity with the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake of is two years.

Activity has been scheduled for 2: 00 pm local time (3: 00 in the afternoon in RD), and the same have been invited the main Haitian authorities, representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in this country and officials of agencies international.

The former residence of the Embassy of Dominican Republic in Haiti was built in 1934 and purchased by the Dominican State in 1957.

Headquarters is located in the municipality of Petion Ville, in the upper part of Port-au-Prince, on a plot of more than 3,000 square meters, next to another area of almost the same extent where the work of the Embassy and the consular service u000athey will be unified into a single building which will be built from August.

"The residence was demolished and return to build." "It was a classic structure whose style was retained to combine it with a modern," he told Silié LISTÍN DIARIO. The Dominican Ambassador explained that the new structure, erected by the star group, has two large rooms.

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