A delegation from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Trade and Labor Affairs is…to review the allegations made by the Rev. Christopher Hartley…The U.S. Embassy said the delegation will review his allegations and determine if there have been any violations of the labor provisions of a trade agreement that was signed in 2004 and eliminated tariffs between the U.S., the Dominican Republic and five countries in Central America…Hartley, who spent nine years in the Dominican Republic…called the review a “magnificent” first step toward addressing long-standing abuse of the country’s sugar workers, who are mostly migrants from neighboring Haiti or people of Haitian descent…[because] the Dominican sugar industry, dominated by three families, uses forced labor and trafficked workers, allows hazardous working conditions and provides inadequate medical and other benefits. The industry denies the allegations…