Haiti: wage council proposes eight-cent raise
Haiti’s new council on wages issued its minimum wage levels for 2014, offering assembly plant workers a raise of eight cents an hour.
Haiti’s new council on wages issued its minimum wage levels for 2014, offering assembly plant workers a raise of eight cents an hour.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic aren’t at war, according to Haiti’s foreign minister, but hundreds of Haitians have fled the neighboring country amid a wave of violence.
The number of Haitians trying to reach the US through the Bahamas is increasing, and so are the fatalities.
After a year of struggle by Haitian workers supported by North American activists, two major garment companies have agreed to honor the legal minimum wage.
Protesters were met with tear gas, rocks and some shooting when they marched into the suburb where President Martelly lives.
Now the US government can only find one other country that’s willing to back its embargo on Cuba. Even tiny Palau has jumped ship.
Protesters and colleagues freed an attorney the government was trying to send to prison. His clients have filed corruption charges against the president’s family.
A Dominican court’s ruling against some 200,000 people descended from Haitian immigrants has inspired protests in Haiti and New York.
Lawyers for the victims sue the UN for the cholera epidemic it brought to Haiti, while an international watchdog group reports on “peacekeeper” corruption.
Residents of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico long used as a US Navy exercise range, brought a complaint before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.
The Dominican high court ruled that undocumented immigrants are “in transit,” depriving their Dominican children of citizenship—including all born since 1929.
The US State Department promised 65,000 jobs from a US-funded industrial park in northern Haiti; after 11 months, the number of jobs is all of 1,500.