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Old 07-26-2006, 10:24 PM
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The Dominican Republic, which launched a $20 million beach cleaning and regeneration program earlier this year, will open the first two restored beaches on July 29 in Puerto Plata.

The event will take place at Puerto Plata Beach and Long Beach and will be hosted by Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez and Tourism Secretary Felix Jimenez.
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Old 07-27-2006, 02:51 AM
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Today just off Long Beach were several boats, excevation type equipment etc. Of course there was also many parked cars and people standing around watching, should provide entertainment for some time. There is a large pile of pipes to be used to extend the sewage outfall as well just waiting to be installed. I will try to get down to take some photos as well.
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Old 07-27-2006, 11:06 AM
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Will this clean up affect Playa Dorada beach as well? I will be visiting Iberostar Costa Dorada in October. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Old 07-27-2006, 10:47 PM
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Old 07-28-2006, 12:09 PM
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Old 07-28-2006, 08:09 PM
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Diario Libre Digital :SETH gives back to his beaches to Puerto Plata.Long Beach and Golden Playa are between which they will be rehabilitated .The white sand is deposited in the beach and the equipment works in their reacondicinamiento. The coralline sands of San Juan River are white and will cover the new beach. Santo Domingo. The increase of US$5.00 to the tax of entrance from tourists to the country already is giving its fruits. The Government, through the Secretariat of Tourism, is rehabilitating more important public beaches of the country with the bottoms that that rate generates and without looking for lent resources. Felix Jiménez, secretary of Tourism, are moved. And he is not for less. The civil employee is supervising personally the first part of the project, that consists of returning to turn to Long Beach the bath beach that was 30 years ago, but with the difference of which now she will be ampler, their waters will not be contaminated and its sand will be white, extracted of the sandy banks of San Juan River. “They come to see how this Government is turning ´mierda´en progress”**** into progress, it was the expression used by Jiménez to show the closing of one of the five openings of the pluvial black water drainage of Port Silver in his coast. Now those polluting wastes are lead to a plant of black water treatment that also was constructed with own bottoms. The project With a US$19 investment million, the Secretariat of Tourism has initiated the rehabilitation of beaches of Puerto Plata, Cabarete, Boca Chica and Juan Dolio. Altogether they will be 14 kilometers of beach that will be filled up with 1,4 million cubic meters of beautiful white sand. The project began both by Long Beach in one of public beaches of Puerto Plata, where 65 men with the heavy equipment work to all time about and boats that extract the sand of San Juan River and deposit it in the beach in which for 30 years anybody has been bathing and that as of next day 5 of August, the tourists will be able to enjoy Dominican and who therefore wish it. The care of beaches But the opening of these beaches will not be unexpected. The project includes the elaboration of a Taken care of Regulation of of Beaches that will be administered by the industralists of the hotel sector of each zone and the city councils, in addition to which it will count on support systems which they will be provided by the Secretariat of Tourism. Jiménez explained that the regulation will regulate expendio of foods, the cleaning, the security and the care of environment on to be rehabilitated beaches An inaugural celebration The beach of Long Beach will be inaugurated by president Leonel Fernandez the 5 of August, right the day that will be opened to the public. That same day they will come to the country more than 50 journalists of Europe, the United States and some countries of Latin America to know the new beach and the visit of guests will be coordinated from the main provinces of the country, in addition to the tourists. The Brothers Rosary, Krisspy and other groupings will brighten up the inaugural celebration of the beach that has to all the residents of excited Port Silver, including the bishop of the diocese, Julio Caesar Corniel, who expressed his satisfaction with the initiative of Tourism. The nonpositive thing The project of rehabilitation of beaches of Puerto Plata, Cabarete, Boca Chica and Juan Dolio will be completed in October of this year. Of the US$19 million for its cost, the private sector is going to contribute to US$3.5 million. Nevertheless, the participant companies that develop the project: the Dutch Boskalis the International, Grupo Cadic of Spain and Cesigma of Cuba, was contracted in direct form by the Secretariat of Tourism, without call to international public licitation. Jiménez explained that Boskalis is one of the best companies of the world in beach rehabilitation and that the negotiations for their hiring came making from the first management of Leonel Fernandez (1996-2000), when the project was devised.

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Old 07-28-2006, 08:20 PM
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Talking a better translation, lol, ..

"Come to see how this Government is turning shít into progress,”

The US$5 tax increase on tourists entering the country is already giving its fruits, as the Tourism Ministry is rebuilding the Dominican Republic’s most important public beaches with the funds from that levy and without seeking funds from loans.
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Old 07-28-2006, 08:44 PM
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"Come to see how this Government is turning shít into progress,”

The US$5 tax increase on tourists entering the country is already giving its fruits, as the Tourism Ministry is rebuilding the Dominican Republic’s most important public beaches with the funds from that levy and without seeking funds from loans.
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