With gasoline topping $6 a gallon – Transport Workers go on Strike

See story from Alter-Presse – (translated from French below) Haiti : Strike of Public Transport against price increase of petrol products Translated from French by Menno Ernst Tuesday 12th June 2007 P-au-P, June 12th, 2007 [AlterPresse] — Hundreds of people, students, young girls and young boys, women and men, are walking around by foot or are waiting, at different crossroads in the metropolitan area of the capital, to find some kind of transport vehicle together during the first ours of this Tuesday 12th of June, notifies the online agency AlterPresse. Taxis, vans and other tap tap (name given to public transport vehicles) are very rare in various streets of Port-au-Prince, in the north and in the south, from the east to the west. read more