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00:00:0314 transport companies, which
00:00:58thermal power plants that run on gas,
00:01:44was not the only warning from the Minister
00:02:34It was obviously much more than what
00:04:01return because what
00:04:03they left changed and what
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00:05:20Welcome to our Prime Time broadcast with Alejandra Forero.
00:05:24Next, our headlines.
00:05:28Judge gives the government five weeks to find a solution
00:05:32to the issue of UTVs and Aruba Bear Life
00:05:35Conservation. Salary app facilitates minimum wage
00:05:38calculation in Aruba. Transporters reinforce their
00:05:42units after attacks on transportation in Peru, a
00:05:46father risks his life and saves a girl from being run over,
00:05:50bought a ghost town on a bet and is now the only
00:05:54inhabitant. At this time, and every day,
00:05:57I am pleased to greet our viewers, giving them, as always, a
00:06:01warm welcome to our Prime Time broadcast with Alejandra
00:06:04Forero. It is a great pleasure to greet you, hoping that you had
00:06:08an excellent Thursday. We begin with
00:06:11local news and finally, it seems there is a light at the end of the
00:06:15tunnel. Yesterday, the government sat down with representatives
00:06:18of the UTVs or ATVs and
00:06:22tourist operators to try to reconcile
00:06:26with what the court also indicated, giving
00:06:30the government five weeks to
00:06:33sit down and find a balance between what
00:06:36Aruba Bear Life Conservation and these
00:06:40tourist operators have been. We know that the impact has
00:06:44been carried out all this week. The Court of First Instance of
00:06:47Aruba decided to postpone for five weeks the case concerning
00:06:51access and protection of the north coast, a dispute that
00:06:55pits environmental conservation against the activity
00:06:58of UTV and ATV tour operators,
00:07:01which are all-terrain vehicles. In its
00:07:04decision, the judge established a clear
00:07:07condition: the government of Aruba must sit down to dialogue with the
00:07:11organization Aruba Beer Life Conservation, known as
00:07:15ABC, to seek a solution that also takes into
00:07:18account the interests of the tourist sector and the community.
00:07:22The judicial process will continue next October. According
00:07:26to the Court, in this case there are legitimate interests
00:07:29that must be balanced. On the one hand, Aruba Bear Life
00:07:32Conservation advocates for the protection of flora and fauna in
00:07:36protected natural areas, but on the other hand, tourist
00:07:39operators also seek to maintain an
00:07:43economic activity that for years has been permitted and is their
00:07:47daily bread. The judge also warned that the
00:07:50government must immediately set the date of the meetings and
00:07:54demonstrate good faith participation in this dialogue, otherwise
00:07:57the case will proceed more quickly
00:08:01and without further extensions. Meanwhile, the government
00:08:04and several of the main tour operators signed a
00:08:08protocol to continue negotiations. The document proposes
00:08:11discussing measures such as fixed routes, regulated
00:08:15access for small groups, zoning, environmental
00:08:19controls, noise reduction, and even a possible fee
00:08:23system for entering natural areas. Although this
00:08:26protocol does not modify the judicial process, it opens a
00:08:305-week window to try to reach an
00:08:33agreement that allows protection of Aruba's natural
00:08:37heritage without jeopardizing a key activity for
00:08:40the island's economy and tourism.
00:08:44Now workers and employers
00:08:47have the Salary app where they can confirm that
00:08:51the minimum wage payment is being made as it should be, and the
00:08:55best part is that it comes in four different languages: Spanish,
00:08:58Papiamento, English, and Dutch.
00:09:02The Ministry of Labor and the Department of Labor Affairs and
00:09:06Research Dao expanded the Salary application, a
00:09:10tool created to facilitate the calculation and verification of the
00:09:13hourly minimum wage in Aruba. The application is now
00:09:17available in four languages: Dutch, Papiamento, English, and
00:09:20Spanish, with the aim that both workers and
00:09:23employers can access clear and reliable information
00:09:27about their labor rights and obligations. The
00:09:31salary app was developed especially to accompany
00:09:34the transition to the new hourly minimum wage system that came into
00:09:38effect on January 1st of this year, with a rate of 11
00:09:41florins and 58 cents per hour. The
00:09:44tool allows for quick and easy calculation
00:09:47of the salary and checking if the remuneration
00:09:51corresponds to what is established by law. The government also
00:09:54anticipates that the application will continue to be developed to
00:09:58become a tool that allows workers to
00:10:02practically verify the salary they
00:10:05receive. For calculations, the weekly salary is
00:10:08obtained by multiplying the hours worked by 11 florins
00:10:12and 58 cents per week. The application and
00:10:15informational materials are available through
00:10:18dao aruba also in different
00:10:21languages. Changing the subject.
00:10:25Donata became the employee of the month for August at the
00:10:28hospital, where she was pleasantly
00:10:32surprised by the board of directors and her colleagues
00:10:35in a very pleasant moment.
00:10:48Hospital, but he starts as an intern,
00:10:51vacation, help, contract of the Beast.
00:13:30We begin our international round in Peru, where
00:13:33after the attacks that transporters have suffered
00:13:37in recent days, they had to literally shield
00:13:41their buses to avoid these
00:13:43attacks.
00:13:46The driver's cabin converted into a shield against the attacks of
00:13:50extortionists, public transport companies are starting to
00:13:53reinforce the place.
00:13:58Look at this unit, the driver is already protected by an
00:14:01armored cabin that allows him to carry out his operations regularly.
00:14:05This is only one of the 250
00:14:09vehicles that will be part of the first phase of
00:14:12work, the armored cabin is a cabin that will
00:14:16be improved because this is still the demo plan, now inside the
00:14:19cabin we have a camera with artificial intelligence that is
00:14:23inside and a camera
00:14:25also for the internal part that is there. This camera will
00:14:29focus on everything inside the bus, they have
00:14:3287 artificial intelligence algorithms that will allow, for example,
00:14:36detecting people with weapons, knives, hooded people with
00:14:39masks. It will also send an alert directly to the municipality's
00:14:43police central and to the central we also have in our
00:14:47maneuvering yards. Protection is not only
00:14:50inside, we also have even some plates here,
00:14:53these are armored steel plates
00:14:57that protect the entire lower part of the driver, this plate
00:15:01surrounds the entire part of the bus, the driver is completely protected,
00:15:04there is no way for the criminal to shoot and
00:15:08reach the driver with this
00:15:11armored cabin. The initiative begins with the
00:15:14companies,
00:15:16the companies assume the cost of their implements, while Semape
00:15:20provides guidance for their installation, assembly and interconnection with
00:15:24their central module. At this moment we have five
00:15:27subscribed companies representing 250 buses that we will
00:15:31progressively implement, but the
00:15:34benefit of the works we have been implementing, such as the... around
00:15:37Chuquitanda, have benefited
00:15:41represents an approximate total of 500
00:15:45buses, and we go to Colombia because the
00:15:49Minister of Mines and Energy gave an ultimatum and
00:15:52specified that if the El Niño phenomenon continues to arrive as it is
00:15:56currently doing, then there will be power outages, but also
00:16:00an increase in the cost of electricity service, which will
00:16:04also affect users.
00:16:10The Minister of Mines and Energy, Maria Noemi
00:16:13Arboleda, was direct during a political control
00:16:16debate in Congress. She said that electricity rates will
00:16:20have to rise if drought conditions increase due to the
00:16:23El Niño phenomenon, and explained the relationship by saying that as water
00:16:27becomes scarcer, there will be more difficulties for hydroelectric
00:16:30generation, forcing an increase in the use of
00:16:35which makes energy generation more expensive. Let's not
00:16:39kid ourselves, the rate has to go up. Why does the rate have to
00:16:43go up? Because the resources are no longer the same, those that will meet all the
00:16:46demand. That is, the one who will set the marginal price is someone who has
00:16:49gas, gas that costs a lot and that is also growing due to the problems that
00:16:53exist internationally. The possibility of a rate increase
00:16:57appears amidst a growing risk of blackouts in the
00:17:00country. At this moment, we have to turn on the
00:17:03thermal power plants, those that run on gas, at full capacity to
00:17:07compensate for what is coming in the coming months, and that
00:17:10means having that gas available, and that gas,
00:17:14I insist, is being paid three times more than what we traditionally
00:17:18paid for it in Colombia. But it
00:17:22in the economic commissions. She warned that the budget requested for
00:17:262027 does not have sufficient resources to
00:17:29cover electricity subsidies, which aggravates the
00:17:32outlook in the sector. To try to save energy, the government has already
00:17:35issued punitive measures for those who consume more than 10%
00:17:39of their monthly average and benefits for those who do the
00:17:43opposite, that is, who save more than 10% of their
00:17:46average consumption.
00:17:49Hundreds of engineers traveled from Mexico to the United States
00:17:53after a promise that a supposed company had
00:17:56given them to work for super-important
00:17:59companies. When they arrived in the United States, they had to
00:18:02work in construction, that is, as construction
00:18:05workers. This is their story.
00:18:12he earned there in Mexico as an engineer, and
00:18:15Isidro Arellano says he was in his last year of engineering school
00:18:18when he saw an advertisement at his university in
00:18:22Mexico. He says the ad was for engineering positions in automobile
00:18:26factories in the United States. The ideal
00:18:29candidates were young engineers or technicians from
00:18:32Mexico willing to work north of the border.
00:18:36It sounded like an excellent opportunity, yes, because it
00:18:39gave me the opportunity to come to another country where I knew nothing about the
00:18:42culture, besides the
00:18:46activities they mentioned
00:18:49sounded appropriate, in line with what I had
00:18:52studied. Full of dreams, Arellano says he traveled to the United States
00:18:56in 2021 for what he describes as a quality
00:18:59engineering job whose functions included taking
00:19:03precise measurements for auto parts. When you were
00:19:06in the hiring process, did you ever stop to think
00:19:10that all this probably sounded too good to
00:19:14be true? Yes, it crossed my mind once or twice.
00:19:17A class-action lawsuit filed in
00:19:202022 in a federal court in Atlanta alleges that
00:19:24Arellano and 600 other Mexican workers were
00:19:27induced to move to the United States with false
00:19:31promises of skilled work, but
00:19:34were relegated to performing assembly line work,
00:19:37subjected to six 12-hour shifts per
00:19:41week with mandatory overtime, while
00:19:44US-born workers were not,
00:19:48and earning half of what US-born workers earned
00:19:52for the same job in the same place. They say that
00:19:55when they arrived in
00:19:58Georgia, the situation was totally
00:20:02different, that they had to do manual
00:20:06labor, heavy labor, and that they were not
00:20:09paid correctly.
00:20:13And look at these shocking images, in a matter of
00:20:17seconds a man risks his life to save the
00:20:21life of a child who, due to her parents' carelessness, was about to cross the
00:20:25street. Truly, this man is known as a hero without
00:20:28a cape.
00:20:38He didn't think twice and acted. Luis Enrique Cruz
00:20:41is the hero without a cape who saved a girl of
00:20:44approximately 3 years
00:20:4711 Sur in Puebla City on Sunday, September 6.
00:20:51The video of the heroic act went viral
00:20:55worldwide. Upon seeing that the minor was in danger,
00:20:58Luis ran to help her, also risking his
00:21:01life. I felt
00:21:04desperate to save her,
00:21:07to prevent anything from happening to her.
00:21:10And then there was the satisfaction
00:21:16happened, that nothing serious happened and that...
00:21:20well, today the girl is safe and sound with her
00:21:22dad. He was at the right time, in
00:21:26the right place. The events occurred around 2 in the
00:21:29afternoon when the store he manages was about to close.
00:21:33Luis was arranging the merchandise to
00:21:37put it in the establishment when he saw that
00:21:40the little girl was running towards 11 Sur, one of the
00:21:43busiest avenues in Puebla. At that moment I
00:21:47notice a girl running out. I don't see
00:21:51her returning and I continue with my business,
00:21:54but she runs into the road, so
00:21:58at that moment I didn't
00:22:01think, I reacted on my paternal instinct of
00:22:05having, I have a child of more or less that
00:22:08age, so at that moment the only thing I did was
00:22:12want to save the girl. A couple passed by, a couple was
00:22:15passing and well, they passed, they were in their own world
00:22:19and he did notice it. Even the girl hurt her foot
00:22:23because she is seen falling, so he did not think about it, he threw himself and
00:22:26literally caught her, he stopped the walk because you can even hear the
00:22:30sound there too that stops her to help the girl. At the moment of
00:22:34helping, his children came to mind, well, this
00:22:3734-year-old man is the father of four minors and
00:22:41one of them is the age of the little girl he
00:22:45saved. Migration can be a topic that
00:22:49not only affects people at the level of their documents, but
00:22:52according to experts, it could also affect their mental
00:22:55health, speaking of how they are not only far from their
00:22:59family, but also perhaps going through situations that are
00:23:03affecting them emotionally and
00:23:05morally.
00:23:08In the last 4 years, more than 51,000 people have
00:23:11returned to El Salvador, according to statistics confirmed by the
00:23:15International Organization for Migration, which poses significant
00:23:19economic and community challenges.
00:23:22However, migrating does not mean simply changing countries. For
00:23:26thousands of people, the process involves leaving behind an entire
00:23:30life built over decades, with much fear, with much
00:23:33persecution, this, that fear of
00:23:37having to separate from their family affects
00:23:41not only the moment they do it, if it
00:23:45happens to them, but the anticipatory fear
00:23:49is terrible, it is a hypervigilance that
00:23:52affects the nervous system. Talking about mental health among the
00:23:55migrant population also means combating stigma. Many
00:23:59people may avoid asking for help for fear of being
00:24:02judged. This double uprooting
00:24:06causes a profound impact
00:24:10mainly on social inclusion processes,
00:24:13on productive inclusion processes.
00:24:17Because they don't, they don't, they don't
00:24:22is called the migratory grief
00:24:26they are going through at this moment. Specialists and
00:24:30organizations working with migrants highlight that many
00:24:33people do not end up being well due to not having a concrete
00:24:37place to feel at home. The longer they are
00:24:41away, the more difficult the return will be, it will be like another
00:24:44immigration, one never,
00:24:47never, once one leaves, one cannot
00:24:53and one also changed, it is totally another
00:24:57cultural reintegration, of
00:24:59identity, with family, with friends.
00:25:11States.
00:25:13Our story was built by
00:26:04people, neighbors helping neighbors, standing side
00:26:07by side with those who trust us, to protect what matters
00:26:10most and help build our communities,
00:26:14being there when needed most,
00:26:18across borders, across
00:26:21generations, still growing,
00:26:24still giving, still just getting
00:26:28started after 185.
00:26:31We continue with more information on
00:28:32Prime Time. This month of September is commemorated
00:28:36as Anti-Suicide Month, the Yellow Month, where in
00:28:40countries like the United States, more awareness is
00:28:43generated about the suicide rate that unfortunately continues
00:28:47to affect people, especially military personnel. That's
00:28:51why it is said that 17 people, that is,
00:28:54retired members of the armed forces, unfortunately
00:28:58take their own lives due to the situation they go
00:29:01through. Today on Prime Time, we talk about your health, so take
00:29:05care of it.
00:29:15When she was a young soldier, Shante Franco says she felt that life was not
00:29:18worth living. At that time, she didn't know she suffered from
00:29:22post-traumatic stress disorder.
00:29:26She also didn't try to seek support because she felt that if she did,
00:29:29she would be a burden to others. She says she
00:29:33survived two suicide attempts, and even
00:29:36then she couldn't imagine a future. It wasn't until a neighbor
00:29:40noticed that something wasn't right that she finally
00:29:44found the will to free herself from that burden she had carried for
00:29:47years.
00:29:50You can't address a problem without talking about the problem in its
00:29:53entirety. Warning signs that someone might be
00:29:57considering suicide
00:30:00family, friends, or activities,
00:30:04giving away valuable possessions, engaging in reckless
00:30:07behavior, increasing alcohol or other substance
00:30:11use, neglecting personal care, significant
00:30:15changes in behavior, or talking about feeling
00:30:18trapped, like a burden, or without purpose.