NewsWhore
11-13-2008, 04:10 PM
The Ministers of Public Health and of the Interior and the Police met with the president of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday and asked for his support to a bill that would, once and for all, ban the use of fireworks by private citizens.
Bautista Rojas Gomez and Franklin Almeyda Rancier urged the approval of the bill before December in order to prevent people, especially children, from getting harmed by the careless use of fireworks during the holiday season.
Almeyda Rancier told Hoy reporters that the proposal suggests that the market for fireworks should be handled by well-established Pyrotechnic businesses so that when a show is put on it is done correctly and not by inexperienced persons.
Julio Cesar Valentin, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, promised to put the proposal on the agenda for next Tuesday's session. The bill has already been approved by the Senate.
Earlier, Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda Rancier had maintained that this year sales to the general public of fireworks are again banned. The ban was put into place in 2006 by presidential decree. Almeyda told the Listin Diario that only specialized fireworks technicians are authorized to set off the fireworks. The ban was put into place at the request of physicians that protested the large number of victims, including children that were injured at Christmas time. He said that in 2006 there were 27 cases of serious burns because of fireworks, but last year there were only four cases. Almeyda said that the ministry would confiscate any fireworks sold by vendors to the general public. He said last year they incinerated over RD$1 million in fireworks that were confiscated from illegal vendors.
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Bautista Rojas Gomez and Franklin Almeyda Rancier urged the approval of the bill before December in order to prevent people, especially children, from getting harmed by the careless use of fireworks during the holiday season.
Almeyda Rancier told Hoy reporters that the proposal suggests that the market for fireworks should be handled by well-established Pyrotechnic businesses so that when a show is put on it is done correctly and not by inexperienced persons.
Julio Cesar Valentin, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, promised to put the proposal on the agenda for next Tuesday's session. The bill has already been approved by the Senate.
Earlier, Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda Rancier had maintained that this year sales to the general public of fireworks are again banned. The ban was put into place in 2006 by presidential decree. Almeyda told the Listin Diario that only specialized fireworks technicians are authorized to set off the fireworks. The ban was put into place at the request of physicians that protested the large number of victims, including children that were injured at Christmas time. He said that in 2006 there were 27 cases of serious burns because of fireworks, but last year there were only four cases. Almeyda said that the ministry would confiscate any fireworks sold by vendors to the general public. He said last year they incinerated over RD$1 million in fireworks that were confiscated from illegal vendors.
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