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Government announces increase for workers in the sugar sector of up to 102%

The Government announced on Tuesday a wage increase for workers in the sugar industryfrom 97 to 102 percent. Said increase will be applied to the minimum wage and with retroactive effect, according

February 15, 2022

Dominican Republic

The ‘doomsday vault’ opens its doors to receive new deposits

The World Seed Bank, located on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, received this Monday, February 14, 22,000 new samples from different countries, reports the Norwegian Government. Currently,

February 15, 2022

Cuba

Holguín court sentences 20 11J protesters in Cuba for sedition

The Cuban Justice sentenced this Monday for sedition 20 demonstrators who participated in the anti-government protests of last July 11 – including five minors – to between five years of limited freedom

February 15, 2022

Cuba

“The ruling party has no plans to privatize anything”

Eduardo Sanz Lovatón, general director of Customs and member of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), assured yesterday that the ruling party has no plans to privatize absolutely nothing.He made the point regarding

February 15, 2022

Dominican Republic

Elena Cruz, new chief general of the indigenous region in Panama

According to the entity, once the official results are known, the new authority of the native people with demarcations in the provinces of Chiriquí, Bocas del Toro and Veraguas, will be sworn

February 15, 2022

Cuba

TSA will decide whether to proceed with a public apology to Jean Alain for the Medusa case

The Superior Administrative Court (TSA) will announce this Wednesday whether the former Attorney General of the Republic is right or wrong, Jean-Alain Rodríguez in his request that the news linking his name

February 15, 2022

Dominican Republic

16-year-old teenager who shot another in a Florida school will be tried as an adult (+ VIDEO)

A 16-year-old student from a Seminole County school in central Florida, accused of shooting and seriously injuring another high school classmate from the same center, will be tried as an adult, local

February 15, 2022

Cuba

Sanctioned businesses for charging commission for card payments

The executive director of the National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Pro Consumer), Eddy Alcantarareported that businesses in Greater Santo Domingo have been sanctioned in recent days for charging a

February 15, 2022

Dominican Republic

Anti-coup protests in Sudan leave two dead

The non-governmental organization, opposed to General Abdel Fatah al-Burhan’s coup, also reported dozens of wounded while clarifying that the two deceased were the result of gunshot wounds. Since al-Burhan took power on

February 15, 2022

Cuba

Sisalril: «Si ya han pagado el anticipo, las ARS están obligadas a devolverlo»

Sisalril: “If they have already paid the advance, the ARS are obliged to return it”

Feris Iglesias said that there are three resolutions on the collection of advance “If they have already paid the advance, the ARS they are obliged to return this advance to the person

February 15, 2022

Dominican Republic

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