NewsWhore
01-04-2007, 04:50 PM
Listin Diario reports that six Panamanian sailors have been left ashore in Puerto Plata by their ship, the Charlot. The lawyer for the six, Erick Urena, says that the men were contracted in Panama to deliver wood and sand to islands in the Bahamas on 23 December 2006. They claim that they entered port in Puerto Plata and were then left behind without money and are starving, since they have no resources. The men are suing Jose Antonio Contreras of the Charlot for time worked without pay. Urena pointed out that Dominican labor laws state that when a sailor is left at a port other than the one he embarked at, the ship must pay for his air ticket back to his port of origins. No word on what the DR Immigration authorities plan to do.
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