{"id":509303,"date":"2026-06-02T19:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/error-en-el-proceso-de-traduccion-1323\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:21:53","slug":"senate-approves-us600-million-loans-for-climate-and-water-in-punta-cana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/senate-approves-us600-million-loans-for-climate-and-water-in-punta-cana\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves US$600 million loans for climate and water in Punta Cana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- The Senate of the Republic approved this Tuesday, in a single discussion, two loans totaling 600 million dollars intended to strengthen climate action policies and finance a comprehensive drinking water and sanitation program in the Punta Cana-B\u00e1varo area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiatives, submitted by the Executive Branch, were backed with <strong>23 votes in favor and four against<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the financings, for <strong>200 million dollars<\/strong>, was agreed upon with the Andean Development Corporation <strong>to support public policies related to climate action and resilience against climate change<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second loan, for <strong>400 million dollars<\/strong>, was signed with the Inter-American Development Bank and <strong>will be executed by the National Institute of Potable Water and Sewerage<\/strong> to improve access to drinking water, sanitation, and sustainable water resource management in Punta Cana and B\u00e1varo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/senadoapruebaleyfortalecer\/\">Senate approves reform to Political Parties Law to strengthen<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Fuerza del Pueblo bench voted against both initiatives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Edward Espiritusanto questioned the country&#8217;s debt level and asserted that the results of previous loans intended to address the effects of climate change are not reflected. According to his statement, more than 1.4 billion dollars have been approved during the current administration for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">those <\/a>purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The Senate of the Republic approved this Tuesday, in a single discussion, two loans totaling 600 million dollars intended to strengthen climate action policies and finance a comprehensive drinking water and sanitation program in the Punta Cana-B\u00e1varo area. The initiatives, submitted by the Executive Branch, were backed with 23 votes in favor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":509769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[1503,40456],"class_list":["post-509303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-punta-cana","tag-senate"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-28uz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/SENADO.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/SENADO.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}