The Superior Land Tribunal has rejected a series of motions that sought to postpone the hearing of the appeals against the sentence that has declared the land titles granted in favor of individuals on thousands of square meters of land in the protected area of Bahia de las Aguilas to be null and void and of no judicial value.
Judges Manuel Alexis Read Ortiz, presiding, Pilar Jimenez and Catalina Ferreras set the trial of the lawsuit regarding registered terrain for 22 June, after hearing the reading of the evidence from both parties and the presentation of the exceptions of annulment of the appeals. They rejected the request to require the appearance of the former directors of the IAD, Jaime Rodriguez Guzman, Mayra Feliz, Marcellino Vargas Garcia and Tito Hernandez.
They also rejected the order to listen to the testimony of former Attorney General Abel Rodriguez del Orbe, concerning the occupation of the property titles in the area, as well as the reports of topographers Domingo Duran and Victor Betemit, because they felt that the outstanding proof is documentary, “with no evidence showing the usefulness of the measures requested.”
The tribunal ordered the Deed Registrar in Barahona to carry out an inventory of Parcel 215 within 45 days. The court rejected a request for postponement in order to study the case file and reposition the deadline, “whenever in the Property Jurisdiction the party should contribute and propose their inventories in order to present them opportunely during the hearing of evidence, in addition to not having notified the request used.”