President Leonel Fernandez promised yesterday when visiting Samana to get the rock ash deposited on the shores of Samana Bay removed. He did not say if Puerto Rico had accepted to take it back, or where it would be sent.
Using his campaign slogan of “It’s out they go!” as his war cry, Fernandez promised the citizens of Samana that he would get rid of the stuff as soon as the legal questions had been resolved. Neither the rock ash in Samana or that deposited in Manzanillo has been removed and the company that brought it to the Dominican Republic is fighting any effort to remove it in the courts.