Dominican Environment Ministry flexes its muscle, demolishes club in Bayahibe

The Environment Ministry (Semarena) Wednesday morning began the demolition of a nautical club built in a protected area in Bayahíbe near the Dominicus hotels, La Altagracia province.

Semarena’s demolition order was executed by La Romana provincial offices, headed by Yuma region coordinator Andy Omar Johnson.

The official confirmed the measure to newspaper Diario Libre and said in the documents of the structure appears the engineer Martìn Concepciòn Muñoz, representing the company Inversiones Blue Eges.

However, it was learned that Concepciòn represents Italian investors who neglected the rules and violated several SEMARENA dispositions to build two, three story structures and illegally occupied an area of the beach.

It was reported that despite being warned to halt the construction, they in fact accelerated the works.

Police agents accompanied the official to carry out the measure, including personnel of SEMARENA, which has taken several measures aimed at preventing damages to the zone’s ecology and the environment in the last few months, especially bans on constructions in and around protected areas.