SANTO DOMINGO.- A team of the prestigious newspaper The Miami Herald is in the Dominican Republic exploring the business opportunities the country has to offer, in the wake of the implementation of the Dr-Cafta trade accord and the current boom in construction and tourism real estate.

Tannaz Etebarian, project director of The Miami Herald’s LatinInvest, and Andreas Celia, the project coordinator, met with Dominican Today editor Jorge Pineda to discuss the various aspects of the Herald’s effort to learn of the country’s business climate, investment opportunities, and its social and political environs.

Estebarian and Celia have contacted Dominican leaders in the financial, governmental and commercial sectors as part of the project that would benefit the country by promoting it’s products and services in the vast South Florida market.

Since last year England’s BBC, The Washington Times, CBS-Miami among others, have consulted Dominican Today on the country’s various facets of its economic expansion, as evidenced by an unprecedented 10.7% growth in 2006.