Environment Minister Max Puig announced yesterday that his department would conduct a review of the contentious and widely-opposed Sectoral Law on Protected Areas. As Laura Martinez writes for Diario Libre, the minister said his people would examine the process in which the legislation was created, as well as its Congressional approval. According to Puig, the process was full of ?accidents.?
The newly-appointed minister acknowledged that a decision from the Supreme Court is still pending on the case as presented on 9 August by the Coalition for the Defense of the Protected Areas, whose issue with the bill regards its constitutionality. The statements from the minister came during the close of a workshop on ?Trans-frontier Aquifers of the Island of Hispanola? that was sponsored by UNESCO and other international organizations.