16514: (Hermantin) Sun-Sentinel-Truckers take down border barricades (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Caribbean news briefs

Posted August 23 2003

Haiti

Truckers take down border barricades

Port-Au-Prince · Truckers removed barricades preventing traffic from
crossing the Dominican-Haitian border at Malpasse on Friday, ending a
four-day strike to protest the Dominican government's tax on shipments to
and from this impoverished country.

The truckers union said it had met Thursday with Dominican authorities, who
pledged to impose the 5 percent tax only on shipments valued at more than
$500.

The Haitian truckers are struggling to cope with an end to government
subsidies on petroleum and 40 percent inflation this year, said Duclos
Benisoit, head of the Haitian Public Transportation Federation.

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