2001 Travel News Archive – Page 45

El Siglo newspaper reports on the arrival to Santo Domingo of Liliana and Emil Schmid, a Swiss couple that has been on a world tour for the past 16 years. The couple entered the Guinness Book of World Records when they visited their 114th country, the Vatican. Emil Schmid told El Siglo that he started …

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After remaining silent when sectors spoke up against the Presidential decision to develop areas of National Parks, Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons answered press questions at an environmental workshop held in Boca Chica yesterday that was attended by President Mejia himself. Minister of Environment praised the presidential decision to request that the Senate put …

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The Senator for Samana Ramiro Espino said that if the Ministry of Environment takes too long to submit the bill with the ruling of development of protected areas, he would resubmit the bill the President has requested be put aside. Espino feels Moya Pons has had enough time to submit the bill. He backs the …

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El Siglo newspaper columnist Orlando Gil says today that the luggage porters are back at the Gregorio Luperon Puerto Plata International Airport. He says that government and Aerodom management efforts had reduced their numbers, but they are now back, apparently for political reasons. He says he is told that back with the luggage porters is …

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President Hipolito Mejia sent a letter to the Senate yesterday asking for time to carry out studies into the ownership of property that is part of two national parks and that he had segregated to allow hotel development. The ownership of the properties is being debated by interested parties in the courts. In a letter …

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