14463: Cap Haitien

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

They report the cause, not the street reaction...


Public Transportation Strike Paralyzes Haiti
VOA News

15 Jan 2003, 12:29 UTC
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A strike by Haitian public transportation workers has paralyzed the
Caribbean
nation's two major cities. Bus and taxi drivers refused to work Tuesday to
protest recent dramatic increases in fuel costs after the government
eliminated
a subsidy program. Schools and businesses were closed in the capital,
Port-au-Prince, and in the country's second-largest city, Cape Haitian.
Transportation workers staged a similar walkout January 7. The government
said
budget deficits have made it impossible to continue the subsidies.