The plane, which will take off at 4 p.m. from Val-d’Or regional airport in Canada, will be received by Vice-President Raquel Peña and a delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

HOLY SUNDAY.- A Canadian military aircraft carrying more than 52,000 pounds of machinery, tools and various technology to help rescue the two miners trapped for a week at Cerro de Maimón, is expected to arrive in the country this evening via Las Americas Joseph Francois Pena.

The plane, which will take off at 4 p.m. from Val-d’Or regional airport in Canada, will be received by Vice-President Raquel Peña and a delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

By sending the equipment, he responds to the request made by President Luis Abinader to the Federal Government of Canada and announced during his visit last Thursday to the facilities of the Dominican Mining Corporation (CORMIDOM), to give a message of encouragement to miners Gregory Alexander Méndez Torres and Carlos Yépez Ospina.

Equipment provided includes a Cubex Model 6200 drill, weighing over 25,000 pounds with its mast, and an R-110 Cubex Booster. Also, 8,500-pound equipment reinforcements, tool boxes, rod racks, transformers and miscellaneous equipment make up the rest of the equipment for this type of operation.

The aid, coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dominican Ambassador to Canada, Michelle Cohen, was provided by Machines Roger International, a mining company based in Val-d’Or, Canada, and is carried out in coordination with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, Canadian Armed Forces and their counterparts in the Dominican Republic.

CORMIDOM, which manages and operates an underground metal mine in Cerro Maimón, province of Monseñor Nouel, is a Dominican company with Canadian capital and shareholders.

As part of the procedure, Ambassador Cohen was in direct contact with Lieutenant General Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, Minister of Defense; Antonio Almonte Reynoso, Minister of Energy and Mines; Miguel de Peña, Mining Advisor to the Executive Branch, Christine Laberge, Ambassador of Canada to the Dominican Republic, and Elizabeth Mena, Vice President of CORMIDOM.