after 16 days of conflict, the cane convention is signed, the sugar campaign is about to begin

After sixteen days of conflict between sugar cane growers and the industrialist Tereos, the 2022-2027 cane convention was finally signed on Wednesday July 13. The sugar campaign should start next week in Reunion with the cutting of sugar cane until November. The signed document governs the sector and sets the price per tonne of sugar cane for the next 5 years.

In total, an additional 20 million euros were obtained by the farmers. A satisfaction for the farmers’ unions but also for the agricultural director of the company Tereos. Florent Thibault at the micro Réunion la 1ère by Olivier de Larichaudy.

To put an end to recurring water cuts in Guadeloupe, a priority action plan was launched in 2018. The first achievements are materializing. Example in Capesterre Belle-Eau, in the south of Basse-Terre, where three supply reservoirs have just been built by the Region. Despite the dilapidated state of the network, it is in Guadeloupe that drinking water remains the most expensive in France, according to the latest data from public water and sanitation services. Alexandre Houda, Guadeloupe the 1st.

The Guadeloupe University Hospital was sentenced on Monday to a suspended fine of 200,000 euros for two manslaughters. Two patients died in 2011 and 2014, for lack of sufficient care, according to the Pointe-à-Pitre criminal court.

Leaving from the Kourou space base in Guyana on Wednesday July 13, the first flight of Vega C made it possible to put 7 satellites into orbit for as many scientific missions. It now remains to decipher the data of this first flight of this first mission of Vega C. The details of Franck Leconte of Guyana the 1st.