Caribe Tours, has decided for the safety of its passengers to suspend its operations to and from Haiti due to insecurity in the neighboring country where a Metro Tours bus was hijacked on Sunday May 8 with its passengers "Caribe Tours has suspended its trips to Haiti at the moment [...] we have held a meeting with the National Directorate of Investigations which is trying to obtain the security of the Haitian Police," declared Friday May 13 Paúl Guerrero the Executive Vice-President of this company, affirming that talks are underway between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries, in which the Dominican Embassy in Haiti and the Diplomatic Mission of Haiti in Santo Domingo also participate.

Note that the companies Metro Tours and Capital Coach, both victims of hijacking, have also suspended their operations to and from Haiti. On May 12, the PNH released the hostages of Capital Coach and recovered the bus https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36656-haiti-news-zapping.html

Saturday afternoon Martin Decena, the driver of the Metro Tours company bus who had been kidnapped in Haiti with his passengers on May 8 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36617-haiti-flash-the-400-mawozo-gang-hijacks-a-metro-tours-bus-with-17-passengers-names-of-hostages.html has been released. He should return to the Dominican Republic on a flight to La Isabela International Airport north of Santo Domingo. The Dominican Deputy Minister of Consular Affairs Jetzel Roman clarified that the Dominican State does not pay ransoms for its citizens kidnapped in Haiti. "We do not negotiate with terrorists," said Deputy Minister Roman of MIREX. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36656-haiti-news-zapping.html

The bus and Metro Tours and its passengers are still in the hands of the kidnappers…

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36617-haiti-flash-the-400-mawozo-gang-hijacks-a-metro-tours-bus-with-17-passengers-names-of-hostages.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36656-haiti-news-zapping.html

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