Stéphanie Balmir Villedrouin, the Minister of Tourism and Creative Industry (MTCI), conducted on 14 and 15 August, a supervision tour of the progress of various projects underway in Ile-à-Vache.

According to the Mayor Fritz César, the region of Baleraz (one of the richest areas of fresh water on the island) will be the subject of the establishment of a major water supply system that will serve nearly 5 localities whose population is estimated at about 7,000 people.

Accompanied by the Mayor of Ile-à-Vache, the Minister proceeded to the delivering of compensation checks for 5 residents whose homes were in the port of the locality of Madame Bernard. construction work of this port infrastructure will continue, with the arrival of equipments of the Estrella company whose ship docked Friday in Port Morgan.

In "Kafou Sitwon" (locality east of the island) the Minister and the Secretary of State for Plant Production, Fresner Dorcin, met the Movement of Plantersfor the Development of Ile-à-Vache (MPDI) about the construction of 3 agricultural roads and signed a Financing Memorandum https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11833-haiti-tourism-tour-of-minister-of-tourism-in-ile-a-vache.html This project will involve the participation of 360 inhabitants of the localities concerned at the rate of turnover of 60 people per fortnight over a period of one month for each project.

As part of a project of Arboriculture, a cargo of 40,000 seedlings of Pineapple arrived on the island to replace the "Penguins" (a kind of wild pineapples adorning the backyard of the inhabitants).

The Secretary of State Dorcin with the Minister also visited one of 38 nurseries, on about fifty that must be implemented in the localities of the island https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11833-haiti-tourism-tour-of-minister-of-tourism-in-ile-a-vache.html

HL/ HaitiLibre