By Maria Montecelos Azua, Dominican Republic, May 19 (EFE).- Smoke has begun to rise in recent days from large floating power plants installed off the coast of this southern Dominican coastal town, where local inhabitants are concerned and angry about their potential environmental impact. The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry awarded the Karadeniz Powership company …
By Maria Montecelos Santo Domingo, Apr 13 (EFE).- An excavation in the northeastern Dominican town of Samana has uncovered the remains of what is likely the oldest human settlement in Antilles, archaeologist Adolfo Lopez said Thursday. The findings are “completely changing the vision of the first inhabitants of the Antilles,” he told EFE. Lopez is …
By Maria Montecelos Montecristi, Dominican Republic, Feb 5 (EFE).- At first light on Sunday, a group of flamingos returned to nature in the mangroves of the Estero Balsa Natural Park, in Montecristi, northern Dominican Republic, rehabilitated after having been used as ornamental decor in hotels. EFE attended the first release of flamingos from the Rescate …
By Maria Montecelos Santo Domingo, Nov 23 (EFE).- A museum in this capital on Wednesday inaugurated an exhibition centered on a dissident couple whose middle-class home in the northern Dominican city of Salcedo served as the headquarters for a movement to bring down dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s 1930-1961 regime. The “unprecedented” exhibit focuses on the …
By Maria Montecelos Santo Domingo, Nov 12 (EFE).- A hangar at San Isidro airbase in this capital is the home of the only one of four aircraft to survive the Pan American Flight, a tour intended to raise funds to build a lighthouse in honor of Christopher Columbus. On Nov. 12, 1937, the Dominican air …