2003News

A prayer for Bahia de las Aguilas

Two Dominican popular music sensations, Chichi Peralta and Juan Luis Guerra, have joined forces with Spanish Joan Manuel Serrat, Dominican tenor Francisco Casanova and Puerto Rican Danny Rivera to make the plight of Bahia de las Aguilas known to the world. The stretch of beach in the southwestern province of Pedernales is regarded as a national reserve that should be safeguarded from construction. Ecologists say there is plenty of acreage for hotel construction in the environs, and that the pristine beach, which is as it was when Columbus first arrived on the island, should remain as such, only to be visited on foot. A video produced by the artists for Fundacion Jaragua will be shown on Tuesday, 23 December on Antena Latina, Channel 7, at 8pm, as reported in El Caribe newspaper. Chichi Peralta, who composed the theme song, said he had no idea how important the Bahia de las Aguilas was to the biodiversity of the Caribbean until he visited the area earlier this year and was inspired to compose the track.