More support on Nuevo Diario DR NewsEntrepreneurs and merchants support study of the impact of the gold mine in Los Romeros Nationals For The New JournalSunday November 6, 2022 EL NUEVO DIARIO, SAN JUAN.- Businessmen, merchants and professionals from San Juan de la Maguana, expressed their support for the authorization of the environmental impact study, which determines the feasibility or otherwise of the exploitation of the gold mine in the community of the Romeros. During a meeting held with representatives of the GoldQuest company, the attendees received explanations of how the project would be developed in the event that the study determines its viability. Entrepreneurs, merchants and professionals stated that San Juan de la Maguana needs to develop to get out of the state of poverty in which it is placed in national and international studies. They specified that nothing is lost by carrying out a study that would not be carried out by the mining company, but by a competent institution that would be chosen through a tender conducted by the Ministry of the Environment. Within the expressions in favor of the environmental impact study, it was also said that if the exploitation of the gold mine was not feasible because the results show it, they would be the ones who would be at the forefront to prevent said company from achieving by other means its purpose. Among the attendees, the radio businessman Camel Bortokan and the agricultural businessman Jhonny Bid stand out. Also owners and shareholders of supermarkets, the lawyer and businesswoman Ilonka Arias Pia, from the Napoles Cass spare parts sector, Alberto de Oleo, owner of the Spy Gallery, and Dr. Luis Jimnez from the medical sector, among others. The CEO Luis Santana, Jos Ogando, in charge of the Environment, and Eduardo Ramrez, from the communication area, participated on behalf of the company GoldQuest.