The Caribbean Development bank has approved a loan of US$7.46
million to Dominica for a Sea Defenses and Road Improvement Project,
reports CANA (December 19, 1998):
The loan is to assist in financing the
rehabilitation/reconstruction, of sections of the arterial road and sea
defenses
on the west coast of the island; The aim, said the CDB, is
improvement of road communication between the capital, Roseau, and
outlying villages of Pointe Michel to its south and Massacre to its
north, and reduction in the level of the vulnerability of the road at
Pointe Michel to storm damage. "A well protected road at Pointe
Michel will enable the fishermen from that village to have unrestricted
access to their main market in Roseau," said the CDB.