NewsWhore
12-07-2007, 04:20 PM
Several months after journalist Luis Eduardo "Huchi" Lora caused a stir by asking the Transport Reorganization Office (OPRET) to hand over the studies for the Santo Domingo Metro Project, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Lora and is forcing OPRET to release all documents about the Metro's construction. Hoy writes that OPRET, and its president Diandino Pena, applied for an injunction exempting them from the obligation to release Metro documents, but Supreme Court President Dr. Jorge Subero Isa rejected this plea, which had been passed by the Contentious and Administrative Chamber on 27 April 2007, paving the way for the documents to be released.
The catch is that Lora will not receive all the requested documents for the simple reason that some do not actually exist. Lora has been asking for the documents under Law 200-04 on citizens' right to free access to information.
Lora requested the Metro documents after geologist Osiris de Leon claimed that the proper geological studies weren't carried out before construction on the Metro began, prompting Lora to do some of his own digging. Although he obtained a first instance court ruling in his favor, Pena refused to comply, and Lora took the case to the Supreme Court. The initial court's ruling also indicates that OPRET must pay Lora RD$5,000 for each day that OPRET delays delivering the papers.
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The catch is that Lora will not receive all the requested documents for the simple reason that some do not actually exist. Lora has been asking for the documents under Law 200-04 on citizens' right to free access to information.
Lora requested the Metro documents after geologist Osiris de Leon claimed that the proper geological studies weren't carried out before construction on the Metro began, prompting Lora to do some of his own digging. Although he obtained a first instance court ruling in his favor, Pena refused to comply, and Lora took the case to the Supreme Court. The initial court's ruling also indicates that OPRET must pay Lora RD$5,000 for each day that OPRET delays delivering the papers.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)