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Santo Domingo.- The Constitutional Court (TC) on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling for a group which for several years claims ownership of the exotic island Cayo Levantado, Samana (northeast).

The group had challenged the Supreme Court ruling of August, 2012, for Inversiones Whale Bahia, S. R. L., operators of the Hotel Bahia Principe Cayo Levantado, claiming that the decision will cause irreparable damage.

But the TC refuted the claim, ruling that its enforcement ordering wouldn’t lead to such damage, since it cannot serve as a title to dislodge and take possession of the property claimed by the successors of the late Andres Trinidad Mejia.

The San Francisco Appellate Court’s Civil Chamber had ruled to acknowledge the heirs as the island’s owners headed by Dante Trinidad and Manuel de Jesus Linares Santana.

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Written by: Danilo, 14 Mar 2013 12:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic, www.DuckyDeals.com
How did they originally acquire this land?
Written by: BASTA, 14 Mar 2013 12:12 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs/Free abortions for all
Exactly! What is the history of this island.
Written by: Juango, 14 Mar 2013 1:45 PM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
Indeed, if the rightful heirs of Cayo Levantado are the "successors of the late Andres Trinidad Mejia", they should have their choice of:

1) To be fairly compensated by the delevlopers/owners of the Hotel and the DR Government that issued the fraudulent/mistaken permits to everyone. Plus compensated for loss of use and legal fees.

or

2) have Cayo Levantado remediated back to it's original virgin/natural condition at the cost of DR Government (Sec de Turismo). Plus compensated for loss of use and legal fee.

I would imagine, that the property was homesteaded at the time land grants issued by the DR government, to settlers/farmers of that era, as much of the Samana Peninsula was.

Just MHO, Fair is fair !
Written by: guillermone, 14 Mar 2013 2:33 PM
From: United States
or they can go to war and create an international incident like the Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas.

One strange thing though, who was it exactly who sold the Island to Whale Bahia, S. R. L.,?

I hate these DT stories, they provide such limited information. They leave you craving for more.
Anyway, I would not mind getting an island like that. How did this guy AndresTrinidad Mejia get to own a piece of paradise?
Written by: Perception, 14 Mar 2013 9:55 PM
From: United States
Dominican State owns the Island.!

WTF is going on at DR?

LOL.
Written by: Perception, 14 Mar 2013 10:02 PM
From: United States
Are they refering to the use of land and improvements. Does not apply to an island like that one. Are they doing agriculture, you need to show that for 20 yrs you improved something and it only happens in certain land not in any Islands.

Another scam.

Execute them.

Scumbags.
Written by: Matthew, 20 Mar 2013 5:29 PM
From: Dominican Republic
What about the 60 meters from the coast is for all Dominicans???WTF?
Written by: sweetbabyj, 21 Mar 2013 12:26 PM
From: United States
So very true the people of DR always get the short end of the stick because someone takes a bride to look the other direction or provide clean paper for ownership. There is no central location to see who actually owns what making land purchase a nightmare. Years behind the rest of the world because of a system that is corrupt. Took my friend since September to amend the mistakes on his marriage license due to misspelling. No computers no shared information the official has to drive to the Capitol to try to correct it and it only took five months to issue a revised license. Why is that ?
Written by: guillermone, 21 Mar 2013 2:54 PM
From: United States
Why is that ?

Because we are still a banana republic in many respects.
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