NewsWhore
06-04-2007, 06:00 PM
The Higuey land case involving protected areas within the National Park of the East, supposedly undergoing title processing, has taken another turn. According to a former prosecutor for the Ministry of the Environment, Tourism Minister and realtor Felix Jimenez is subject to several penalties. In fact, according to a report in Diario Libre, Jimenez should be fired and then prosecuted for violating the Protected Area Law. Former prosecutor David La Hoz said that Law 64-00 contains three articles penalizing officials who use their office to violate the laws. The first one states that the accused person should be fired. In this case, according to La Hoz, there is shared responsibility since it involves both Jimenez and the advisers who recommended the approval of a hotel unit with a density of 40 rooms per hectare within the National Park of the East.
In a press conference today on occasion of announcing a plan with the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi) for the management of water sources in tourism zones, Jimenez said that his office did not authorize the construction of the hotel in National Park of the East land. Rather what he did was express the 'no-objection' of the Ministry to the construction, as reported in the Listin Diario.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#12)
In a press conference today on occasion of announcing a plan with the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi) for the management of water sources in tourism zones, Jimenez said that his office did not authorize the construction of the hotel in National Park of the East land. Rather what he did was express the 'no-objection' of the Ministry to the construction, as reported in the Listin Diario.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#12)