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LatinNews Daily - 18 November 2020

In brief: Honduras’s Hernández moves on reconstruction

* Honduras’s President Juan Orlando Hernández and organisations representing the construction industry have signed an agreement regarding the selection and contracting process and transparent supervision of public works for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of road infrastructure and public services damaged by hurricanes Eta and Iota. The minister for community development, water & sanitation (Sedecoas), Nelson Márquez, said that the government had been working in a coordinated manner with Inversión Estratégica de Honduras (Invest-H), the government management company, and the infrastructure & public services ministry (Insep), as well as with the Honduran chamber of construction (Chico), the association of civil engineers and the Honduran chamber of consulting firms (Chec). Insep minister Roberto Pineda said that 136 highways had been identified as needing work and a budget of L200m (US$8.15m) had been earmarked for rehabilitation, while L1bn had been assigned as an initial amount to the construction process in general.

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