The Ministry of Environment has officially revoked the building permits for the cement plant at the Los Haitises National Park. This move officially brings to an end a process, which saw many Dominicans, both young and old, join in a fight against what could have been an ecologically disastrous construction. The Ministry heeded the advice from a United Nations Development Program multi-sectorial task group that concluded the factory would only be beneficial for its promoters. The builders of the cement…
The Superior Land Court sentenced that investors return to the state 12.5 million square meters of land in the National Park of the East that had been irregularly privatized. The judges annulled the contracts that allotted these to Inversiones Trubia, S.A., property of Spaniards Carlos Sanchez and Andres Lietor, that have been mentioned in the Marbella real estate and corruption scandal in Spain. Reportedly, the Spaniards had agreed to pay US$9.9 million for the property. The shoreline property would have…
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Despite rumors that the concert had been canceled and rains that threatened to have that effect, the free concert “Musica por Los Haitises” took place to an impressive capacity crowd at the Plaza de Espana in Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone.
DR1 News correspondent Lu Olivero attended the 5-hour concert and described it as something he had never seen, and even less expected. “I was extremely proud of young Dominicans at this moment. To see them standing together, 5,000…
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A military contingent has distributed eviction notices to a large numbers of residents of Gonzalo, in the province of Monte Plata, who have opposed the installation of a cement plant by the Dominican Mining Consortium on the edge of Los Haitises National Park. The reason is that the lands belong to the State Sugar Council (CEA) and the residents have been given 10 days to leave the lands.
The cement company had obtained a Ministry of Environment permit…
Saona Island, Dominican Republic.- The Environment and Tourism ministries, and the National Housing Institute (INVI) began the works to refurbish and remodel houses in the village Mano Juan, the largest of the Saona Island Natural Monument’s two towns, within the National Park of the East.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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