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This Sunday, President Iván Duque gave a balance on the progress of the reconstruction of Providencia, after the passage of Hurricane Iota. He noted that the delivery of tents and basic kits have been made, and that in the next 48 hours they will deliver mosquito nets and plastic to the houses that have foundations.
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He also assured that they will make Providencia a zero emissions island, being the first municipality. “We are going to make Providencia, in reconstruction, an island that is zero emissions, that the management of garbage, that the management of transportation, that the individual footprint, that we can take energy to that level,” he said.
Susana Correa, current director of the Department of Social Prosperity, who was appointed as manager for the reconstruction of the insular area, assured that they met the first milestones of the last two weeks. Now what follows is to finish the cleaning and debris removal.
“Today (Sunday) nine dump trucks arrive that we have for that collection, and we hope that on December 10, in coordination with the Armed Forces, we will finish this cleaning and removal of debris,” Correa emphasized.
He also added that they will be restoring all the island’s energy service on December 30, “However, we are going to arrive at the airport with energy from the system on December 7,” he said.
Regarding the aqueduct, the official said that on December 9 they will have a diagnosis of the aqueduct networks ready and thus recover all the networks.
This is how Providencia Mayor’s Office remained after the passage of Iota.
“We have 100 percent coverage of the island with all telecommunications services in February. However, in two weeks we will have most of the stations up and running.“.
On education, he announced that they will install the playful tent with games and pedagogical learning activities, around December 7.
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Regarding financial services, Correa pointed out that Banco de Bogotá will start operating tomorrow, Monday, Banco de Crédito will start before December 15 and SuperGiros has already started its operation.
Regarding health services, they have increased epidemiological control.
All documents are free: duplicates of identity cards, those who have lost their document, civil records
For his part, President Iván Duque announced that the Government will assume the total cost of the construction of the storm sewer system on the island of San Andrés, which is estimated at 50,000 million pesos.
The National Registrar of Civil Status, Alexander Vega Rocha, who accompanied President Duque on his tour, pointed out that the documents related to duplicate citizenship cards, identity cards and the Civil Registry of Birth will have no cost for the inhabitants of the island.
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“The news that we give to the inhabitants of Providencia is that all documents are free: duplicates of identity cards, those who have lost their document, civil records“Vega indicated.
Reactivation of tourism in San Andrés
The President called on Colombians to visit San Andrés and Providencia and collaborate in the reconstruction of the archipelago after the passage of Hurricane Iota.
“The best way to help the archipelago this December, and I am going to say it is that we visit the archipelago,” he said.
“Let’s tell the Colombian families, those who have the way to go to Miami, come to San Andrés, don’t go to Miami; to those who have the way, suddenly, to enjoy in some spaces of their property, man, spend a talk and come to San Andrés ”, he stressed.
The National Tourism Fund (Fontur), works on three strategies for the reactivation of tourism on the island of San Andrés and Providencia.
In this sense, the President of Fontur, Raquel Garavito, affirmed that the first initiative is the realization of a new day of the ‘Great Weekend’ where one of the first destinations to promote will be the archipelago.
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“We are doing an application campaign for the entrepreneurs of tourism companies. Only in San Andrés we are talking about 300 companies with a current National Tourism Registry (RNT) that could be enabled with the protocols”, He explained.
Likewise, a campaign promotion campaign is being carried out, which will be replicated on radio, television and digitally.
“We hope to have this campaign on the air next Wednesday and we are going to have an emphasis, from that campaign, on the destinations that have direct flights to San Andrés to increase the visit from those destinations,” he said.
Likewise, there are approaches with entrepreneurs from the country’s private sector so that the end-of-the-year gifts are trips to the archipelago.
“We are working with the entrepreneurs of the country’s large companies so that, instead of giving their employees refrigerators or televisions, what they give them are prizes in trips to the island ”, he explained.
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