Caribe Tours protest

[NewsWhore]

The nation's largest bus company, Caribe Tours, took dozens of their buses out of service yesterday to stage a protest in front of the offices of the OTTT, the government agency that assigns routes to different entities. The OTTT had rescinded the permission obtained by Caribe Tours to operate a direct connection between Santo Domingo and Cap-Haitien in northern Haiti, which was supposed to start this week. Caribe Tours says it has also had problems with the OTTT over its routes serving Jimani, Rio San Juan and Cabarete-Sosua. Caribe Tours buses tied up traffic for several blocks around the Quisqueya Stadium. In a press release, the company said that they have no idea why the OTTT has blocked their routes and demand fair competition on the granting and expansion of urban and inter-urban routes, diesel subsidies, and freedom to do business rules. The press release added that the governor of Dajabon Province, Arturo Socias has pressured the director of OTTT, Franklin Beltre into suspending the permits for the routes without any explanation. Previously, Caribe Tours had obtained permission for the route from the Armed Forces, the Customs Office, the OTTT and the corresponding authorities in Haiti. Caribe Tours says they have all the permits required for the routes from the Ministry of Foreign Relations, Ministry of Armed Forces, Customs Department and even the OTTTT and the competent authorities in Haiti.

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