The office of Prime Minister Henry posted a sliding scale of wage hikes that vary by industry, with the greatest increase going to workers in areas such as the electricity and telecommunications.
Hispaniola was home to thriving human communities for at least 5,000 years before Columbus arrived in 1492. Its first peoples came in waves, some trekking from Central America, others canoeing up from Amazonia through the Orinoco Valley. Over millennia, they blended into the Taíno, a civilization millions strong when European ships appeared.
Classic Taíno civilization flourished on Hispaniola by around 1200 C.E., the result of Arawakan-speaking peoples who had journeyed north from South America’s Orinoco basin over many centuries. Five hereditary chiefdoms divided the island, each centered on village plazas where ball games, ceremonies, and community life unfolded. Their words — hurricane, canoe, hammock — still travel with us.
