JANUARY 2008

The tourist Road of Samaná

Very attractive activities

BREAKING NEWS: SAMANA. - Samaná is transformed into an excellent destination for the tourists who like natural attractions.

Indeed, Samaná has a great potential in the tourist sector, which enabled it be on the routes of the cruise liners which are crossing various islands of the Caribbean.

The visitors can find there adventure, culture and traditional tourism.

Samaná, a destination for the cruise liners

The geographical location of Samaná made that it was easy to include it in the routes of the cruise ships by which two million of tourists are traveling every year, in San Juan, the Virgin Islands and in the Eastern islands of the Caribbean.

Currently, Samaná is a destination for the cruising tourist who enjoy the unique natural attractions of this part of the island, like the Los Haitises national park and the whale watching in winter.

Among the cruise liners which are traveling to Samaná there are MSC Cruises, Norwegian, Azamara Cruises, Princess, P& O, Oceanía and Regent Seven Seast.

And among them, will come the largest boat, with a capacity of 3,500 passengers, the Explorer of the Seas, of Royal Caribbean.

Cayo Levantado

Projects were concluded in Cayo Levantado where investments were made so that the tourist feels comfortable there.

Today, Cayo Levantado is an attraction. One finds sectors of restaurants, small ways were arranged, the beaches were cleaned and the association of the salesmen was re housed in small colored casitas where they present the craft industry produced in the area.

The smile and the kindness of the people make also part of the nice attractions of these places.

Samaná Live, 07.01.09

Samana whale song to be taped

Visit in Dominican waters

BREAKING NEWS :  The official start of the whale watching season is this Thursday, 15 January, and as a new way of welcoming back these huge visitors, five buoys have been installed to record the whales’ sounds or « songs » , in order to determine the type and number of species that visit Dominican waters.

According to Hoy newspaper, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarena) and six organizations signed the traditional memorandum of understanding that establishes the rules for whale watching in a clear and precise manner.

Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal told reporters that he would act with the full weight of the law against any illegal boat that enters the Marine Mammal Sanctuary, located in the northeast of the Dominican Republic.

According to Osvaldo Vasquez of Environmental Consulting and Maritime Techniques, the sanctuary is visited by as many as 14,000 whales each year.

Some whales will be monitored with satellite tracking systems inserted by darts.

DR1, 14.01.09

Public Work Ministry requires re-examining of the sides of the SD-Samaná road

The dealer says that maintenance is sufficient

BREAKING NEWS: The secretary of Public Work, Víctor Díaz Rúa, solicited to the consortium of the Autopista del Nordeste, the realization of several slopes along the Santo Domingo-Samaná road.

He indicated that the sides had remained very stiff at the time of the construction of the way, this is why it was necessary to re-examine their slope and to stabilize them.

Díaz Rúa underlined the tasks of supervision carried out by this organization on the works of concession and recalled that the maintenance of the ways was included in the concession to avoid their deterioration.

On his side, the president of the Autopista del Nordeste consortium, Armín García, indicated that they are continuously working on the maintenance of the road and clarified that the way did not require that they work on the sides because they had been built in accordance with the planned design.

He said that the consortium worked constantly on the way and that engineering daily tasks were carried out with brigades who cut, clean and maintain the sides.

García also denied that this consortium has outstanding accounts with the manufacturer Pedro Nolasco, who declared that he had not been paid for more than six months and that one owed him more than 40.000 pesos.

Samaná Live, 22.01.09

Beaches cleaning day in Samaná

The greatest attraction of the area

BREAKING NEWS:The Ministry of Environment set up in Samaná a cleaning day of the beaches called « Provincial cleaning day of beaches and rivers ».

The activity took place thanks to the collaboration of neighbors associations, the Firemen and the foundations of the zone, in addition to other government institutions, like the Minister of Tourism and the Balcones del Atlántico real estate project, which were sponsors of the activity.

The institutions which took part showed their interest to care and maintain their beaches clean, beaches which they define as the greatest attraction of the area.

Samaná Live, 28.01.09