Port-au-Prince.– Haitian police used tear gas to break up a protest near the national palace where demonstrators were calling for a higher minimum wage.
Riot police also used their batons and shields Friday to block the group of about 150 protesters from reaching the palace.
The protesters say they are an "alternative May 1" movement and called for raising the minimum wage from about $1.80 a day to $10 a day. Eighty percent of the Caribbean nation's people live on less than $2 a day and unemployment is rampant.
The group also called for the departure of a 9,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force they denounced as occupiers.
Hundreds of farmers participated in a nearby government-sponsored "agriculture day" rally and did not join the protest.

is there anymore room in Puerto Plata??? Last time I was in Puerto Plata there were too many motorcycles. I think that the southwest is better for them