NewsWhore
05-08-2009, 04:30 PM
Dominican truckers are complaining that Haitian truckers are preventing them from transporting cargo to Haiti. Goods transported include food and construction materials.
The Haitian truckers say that they should be transporting cargo into Haiti. Listin Diario reports that more than 50 trucks are being held up on the Haitian side of the Jimani-Malpasse border crossing with Haiti. On Wednesday one of the Dominican trucks was set on fire in Haiti and two others had their windows broken, according to Blas Peralta, president of the National Federation of Dominican Transport, a union that has itself used violence in the past to force companies in the DR to use its services.
"If they don't let us cross the border to Haiti, then no Haitian trucker will cross over to this side," said Peralta when he arrived in Jimani for a meeting with Dominican and Haitian truckers. Cargo crossing from the DR to Haiti greatly exceeds the volumes traveling in the opposite direction.
Peralta said that this was a problem caused by the Haitians, not the Dominicans, and that his union would not allow itself to be trampled upon. A meeting to discuss a solution to the issue is scheduled for today.
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The Haitian truckers say that they should be transporting cargo into Haiti. Listin Diario reports that more than 50 trucks are being held up on the Haitian side of the Jimani-Malpasse border crossing with Haiti. On Wednesday one of the Dominican trucks was set on fire in Haiti and two others had their windows broken, according to Blas Peralta, president of the National Federation of Dominican Transport, a union that has itself used violence in the past to force companies in the DR to use its services.
"If they don't let us cross the border to Haiti, then no Haitian trucker will cross over to this side," said Peralta when he arrived in Jimani for a meeting with Dominican and Haitian truckers. Cargo crossing from the DR to Haiti greatly exceeds the volumes traveling in the opposite direction.
Peralta said that this was a problem caused by the Haitians, not the Dominicans, and that his union would not allow itself to be trampled upon. A meeting to discuss a solution to the issue is scheduled for today.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)