The Constitutional Court (TC) has ultimately declined on a technicality an appeal that requested the suspension of the delivery of housing units in order to verify that the beneficiaries are really those persons displaced by tropical storms Isaac and Sandy in the city of Azua. The Civil, Commercial and Labor Chamber of the Court of First Instance in the judicial district of Azua had initially granted the appeal filed by the persons affected by the storm and a provisional suspension of the delivery of housing units in Los Toros I and II in Azua until the true situation of the beneficiaries could be established. The National Commission of Human Rights and its branch in Azua had complained that they had found out that government officials had assigned these new housing units to members of their families, friends and supporters “according to the official list deposited in the court by engineer Olgo Fernandez, the director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (injury) and the President of the Hydroelectric Council of los Toros..”
The project consists of 102 houses to be assigned by those who had been flooded out during the tropical storms. The court’s ruling is based on the fact that the case was filed beyond the deadline.
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Diario Libre
8 March 2018
