{"id":136429,"date":"2020-02-17T12:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T12:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=136429"},"modified":"2020-02-17T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:52:38","slug":"bayahibe-leaf-resort-hearing-postponed-for-20-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/bayahibe-leaf-resort-hearing-postponed-for-20-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayahibe Leaf resort hearing postponed for 20 February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Bayahibe-Leaf-Arecoa-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136447\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Superior Administrative Court (TSA) postponed until Thursday, 20 February 2020, the hearing on the request for the suspension of the environmental permit issued by the Ministry of Environment to the Grupo Globalia to build a 96-caba\u00f1a luxury resort in the Cotubanam\u00e1 National Park area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Environment had authorized the construction on lot 24A. Environmental groups and a former minister of Environment have openly stated the construction in that area is banned by law. The Medina Administration created a commission made up by the Environment Minister Angel Estevez, Legal Advisor to the President Flavio Dar\u00edo Espinal, and Presidency Minister Gustavo[KR4]  Montalvo to ascertain the legality of the permission to build. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On several previous occasions, Globalia had attempted to obtain the environmental permit and had failed until Environment Minister Angel Estevez gave his authorization. Environmentalists say this was irregularly issued. Both Omar Ramirez Tejada, former director of National Parks, and Estevez predecessor, former Environment Minister Francisco Dom\u00ednguez Brito, say the permission should be revoked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/tsa-aplaza-audiencia-contra-globalia-CA17063980\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/medioambiente\/globalia-acordo-la-compra-de\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 February 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Administrative Court (TSA) postponed until Thursday, 20 February 2020, the hearing on the request for the suspension of the environmental permit issued by the Ministry of Environment to the Grupo Globalia to build a 96-caba\u00f1a luxury resort in the Cotubanam\u00e1 National Park area. The Ministry of Environment had authorized the construction on lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/bayahibe-leaf-resort-hearing-postponed-for-20-february\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136449,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136429\/revisions\/136449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}