{"id":95550,"date":"2025-12-13T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kelvin-cruz-invests-in-sports-complex-and-supports-basketball-tournament-in-barahona\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:54:49","slug":"kelvin-cruz-invests-in-sports-complex-and-supports-basketball-tournament-in-barahona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/kelvin-cruz-invests-in-sports-complex-and-supports-basketball-tournament-in-barahona\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Cruz invests in sports complex and supports basketball tournament in Barahona"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Barahona, Dominican Republic<\/strong> \u2013 The Minister of Sports, Kelvin Cruz, led the delivery of the renovated sports complex in Barahona, following an investment of 14 million pesos. During the inauguration ceremony of the superior basketball tournament, Cruz announced a contribution of one million pesos for the sporting event.\n\nIn the act, dedicated to him, the minister detailed the improvements made to the facility and assured the organizing committee the necessary financial support for the tournament.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I know that for a long time a fix for this sports complex has been requested here and we didn&#8217;t want the year to end without making it a reality. I want Barahona to have its tournament without precariousness and in the coming days a contribution of 500 thousand pesos will be made and another equal contribution will be made in January.<\/p><cite>Kelvin Cruz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMinister Cruz received a commemorative plaque in recognition of his dedication to sports.\n\nCruz highlighted President Luis Abinader&#8217;s support for sports initiatives, mentioning the investment of 200 million pesos in the construction of five roofs in the province, including a model sports center of 80 million in Barahona.\n\nThe improvements to the sports center included the installation of more than 500 seats, a professional court, renovated lighting, and the remodeling of sanitary areas and outdoor courts.\n\nIn this XXXIII edition of the Barahona basketball tournament, the Sara F\u00e9lix cup, deputy of the province, is disputed, and six clubs participate.\n\nThe opening match pitted Club Juan Pablo Duarte, champion of 2024, against Cacique Enriquillo.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Union<\/li><li>The Cubs<\/li><li>Santa Cruz<\/li><li>Gregorio Luper\u00f3n<\/li><\/ul>\n\nThe event was attended by authorities such as Mois\u00e9s Ayala, senator of Barahona; Oneida F\u00e9lix, provincial governor; congresswoman Sara F\u00e9lix; and mayors Hamilton Nin and Mictor Fern\u00e1ndez.\n\nAlso in attendance were Rafelito Gar\u00f3, regional director of Sports; Francisco Arias (Paciori), president of the Barahona Basketball Association; deputies Jos\u00e9 del Carmen Montero and Aquiles Ledesma, and Tavito Suberb\u00ed, director of Indesur.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barahona, Dominican Republic \u2013 The Minister of Sports, Kelvin Cruz, led the delivery of the renovated sports complex in Barahona, following an investment of 14 million pesos. During the inauguration ceremony of the superior basketball tournament, Cruz announced a contribution of one million pesos for the sporting event. In the act, dedicated to him, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11062,389,1991,3866],"class_list":{"0":"post-95550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-barahona","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-kelvin-cruz","11":"tag-sports-center"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}