The Law of Incentive for the Development of Renewable Energy Sources has been passed by the Dominican Senate.

The Senate realizes that while the Dominican Republic does not have marketable sources of fossil fuels and that this creates a dependency on external sources, it does have the necessary resources to develop renewable energies such as biodiesel, biomass, sun, wind and hydroelelectric power.

At the same time, the Senate also passed a bill making mandatory the teaching of subjects on the defense of the environment and natural resources in schools.

Donald Trump will be visiting the Dominican Republic on Friday to start preparations for his new development of land he purchased in Cap Cana in the eastern region of the country.

The American real estate tycoon is developing a promontory, or headland, in the area that is 240 feet above sea level. It will be called Farallon Estates At Cap Cana. There will be 68 lots measuring at least 6000 square meters in size. The exact amount of his investment in this project is unknown but development is scheduled to begin at the end of 2007.

While in the area he plans to attend Saturday's posh inauguration ceremony for the new Cap Cana Marina.

Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada reached a milestone 1100 consecutive games yesterday when he walked out on the diamond.

The 'Iron Man' has let nothing, including injuries stand in his way of threatening this record. He is now ranked 7th on the list of players with most consecutive games played in baseball's history. It is possible by the end of May he could advance a couple of positions on that list.

Tejada has played every game since June 2000.

Interviewed on the Hoy Mismo program, director of the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) agrees with the recommendation of the President's Advisor on Drugs, Marino Vincio Castillo (Vincho) taht suspicious aircraft violating Dominican airspace should be fired on.

He feels that measures that may be considered extreme and dangerous by some are necessary to protect the country against threats to national security such as drug trafficking and terrorism. He also feels that due to the anti-drugs summit recently held in the country that the amount of drugs entering the Dominican Republic may have dropped as much as 90% due to international cooperation.

Since the summit a coordinated effort between the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, the Coast Guard and Task Force Key West has seen helicopters, airplanes and radar working to stem the amount of drugs that enter the country. Before this it was impossible to protect against illegal flights from places such as South and Central America.