In the Superior Administrative Court (TSA), Public Defender Zoila Martínez Guante has filed an objection to the donation of the Cueva de las Maravillas site to the board of the Fundación Cueva de las Maravillas. The appeal looks to annul the act of 15 August 2014, by means of which the State Sugar Council (CEA), representing the Dominican state, transferred free of charge the title deed of 10,401 square meters in the municipality of Ramón Santana, province of San Pedro de Macorís, to the non-profit.
In addition Martínez is requesting the cancellation of the power of attorney granted by the Executive to the executive director of the CEA in March of 2010, by means of which it was authorized to modify the contract so that the amount of land donated was reduced to 16,000 tareas instead of 44,000.
The Cumayasa River and Cueva de las Maravillas sites have been a protected area since 3 July 1996, and a year later the anthropological reserve was increased to the status of protection for a national park.
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22 August 2018
