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.