Haitian hauliers threaten to strike over soaring cost of fuel prices
HAITIAN hauliers on Wednesday threatened to take strike action over the soaring cost of fuel prices in the troubled Caribbean nation.
Protests over sky-high fuel prices have been taking place since September of last year after the government announced that prices would be hiked by more than 100 per cent.
Popular unrest over fuel prices have paralysed the country since September, when the government announced that prices would rise by more than 100 per cent.
Transport unions announced at a press conference in Port au Prince that they intend to take strike action for three days if the government fails to cut fuel prices by at least 40 per cent.
The union leaders also demanded action by the government to deal with the street gangs that “sow terror in the country.”
Gangs have also played a leading role in the crisis, stealing and smuggling fuel on the black market.
President of the Association of Owners and Drivers of Haiti, Mehu Changeux, said his organisation wants the government to comply with a 1995 decree which provides for a cut in fuel prices if their values decrease in the international market.
The Association of Petroleum Distributors said that if they really took into account the international market price of fuel, gasoline prices would be even higher.
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