Deputies also approved the sale of lands

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The deputies of the Lower Chamber have approved the sale of 245,000 m2 of former sugarcane cultivation lands by the Porvenir Sugar Mill to the Magic Blue Inversiones, S.A. for US$2,575,000. The lands are in the province of San Pedro de Macoris. While the legislators accepted the report presented by the commission and voted in favor of the bill, Deputy Juan Hubieres pointed out that they were selling land for a tourist complex at ten pesos (sic) a meter which he described as cheating the Dominican people. Another deputy, Josefa Castillo said that Congress was giving away the country bit by bit.

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